Food Webs and Container Habitats: The Natural History and Ecology of PhytotelmataCambridge University Press, 3 aug 2000 - 431 pagina's The animal communities in plant-held water bodies, such as tree holes and pitcher plants, have become models for food-web studies. In this book, Professor Kitching introduces us to these fascinating miniature worlds and demonstrates how they can be used to tackle some of the major questions in community ecology. Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others. The book covers many aspects of the theory of food-web formation and maintenance presented with field-collected information on tree holes, bromeliads, pitcher plants, bamboo containers and the axils of fleshy plants. It is a unique introduction for the field naturalist and a stimulating source treatment for graduate students and professionals working in the fields of tropical and other forest ecology, as well as entomology. |
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Pagina ix
... Processes structuring food webs 253 12. Competition and predation - basic forces structuring the community ? 255 Some theory 255 The mosquitoes of North America - the ghost of competition past ? 258 Enter Toxorhynchites - the dramatic ...
... Processes structuring food webs 253 12. Competition and predation - basic forces structuring the community ? 255 Some theory 255 The mosquitoes of North America - the ghost of competition past ? 258 Enter Toxorhynchites - the dramatic ...
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... essential services . Stuart Pimm and Michael Fisher provided key advice on the actual publishing process without which the work might never have seen the light of day . The preparation of Chapter 3 and the faunistic ' Annexe xii Preface.
... essential services . Stuart Pimm and Michael Fisher provided key advice on the actual publishing process without which the work might never have seen the light of day . The preparation of Chapter 3 and the faunistic ' Annexe xii Preface.
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... processes which occur within them form a legit- imate base for their continued study . But with the extension of community ecology from the descriptive to the predictive stage that has occurred in recent years , phytotelm studies have ...
... processes which occur within them form a legit- imate base for their continued study . But with the extension of community ecology from the descriptive to the predictive stage that has occurred in recent years , phytotelm studies have ...
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... process of community reassembly following complete disruption is described by Jenkins & Kitching ( 1990 ) . Basic work on spatial and temporal variability in food - web structure was also based on Lamington data and is described in ...
... process of community reassembly following complete disruption is described by Jenkins & Kitching ( 1990 ) . Basic work on spatial and temporal variability in food - web structure was also based on Lamington data and is described in ...
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... Processes that go to PART 4 PART 3 Patterns in space structure foodwebs & time spatial - large CHAPTER 7 go to Global patterns - treeholes CHAPTER 13 Nepenthes pitchers spatial , intermediate CHAPTER 8 Continental patterns , go to ...
... Processes that go to PART 4 PART 3 Patterns in space structure foodwebs & time spatial - large CHAPTER 7 go to Global patterns - treeholes CHAPTER 13 Nepenthes pitchers spatial , intermediate CHAPTER 8 Continental patterns , go to ...
Inhoudsopgave
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Methods and theories | 91 |
Patterns in phytotelm food webs | 137 |
Processes structuring food webs | 253 |
Synthesis | 291 |
References | 385 |
Index | 419 |
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abundance albomarginata ampullaria analyses aquatic Australia axil waters axils bamboo bamboo internodes Beaver bicalcarata Borneo bracts Bradshaw Brazil Bromeliads Brunei ceratopogonid Chapter chironomid Clarke & Kitching co-occurring complex container habitats Culicidae Curcuma Dasyhelea detritus Diptera Ecology Fashing fauna feeding links Figure food webs food-web statistics food-web structure forest genera genus Guinea habitat unit Heliconia Hypothesis Indonesia inflorescences insects Laessle Lamington Lamington National Park larvae latitude Leaf axil Lounibos Malaysia Metriocnemus midge mites Mogi mosquito Nepenthes albomarginata Nepenthes ampullaria Nepenthes bicalcarata Nepenthes pitchers Number of feeding number of predators number of species number of trophic occur organisms particular patterns phytotelmata Pimm pitcher plants pitchers of Nepenthes Prediction present processes Queensland rainfall rainforest range recorded rot holes samples saprophages Sarracenia Sarracenia purpurea scale South-east spatial species of Nepenthes studies Sulawesi summarised Table Thienemann 1934 top predators Toxorhynchites tree-hole trophic levels variables water bodies water-filled tree holes