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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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 12
... reflect our ignorance of ontological changes as discussed above but also just how important that particular link is within the food web . So within a tree - hole food web we may identify predatory odonate larvae and connect this ...
... reflect our ignorance of ontological changes as discussed above but also just how important that particular link is within the food web . So within a tree - hole food web we may identify predatory odonate larvae and connect this ...
Pagina 13
... reflect what proportion of the diet of a particular species of odonate is made up by each of the potential prey species . Nor do food webs indicate how much energy is actually flowing along each of the feeding links established . The ...
... reflect what proportion of the diet of a particular species of odonate is made up by each of the potential prey species . Nor do food webs indicate how much energy is actually flowing along each of the feeding links established . The ...
Pagina 28
... reflect a growth form characteristic of the species of tree itself . Rot holes , in contrast , need some external agency to initiate them . Park et al . ( 1950 ) discuss the formation and development of such holes at length . All start ...
... reflect a growth form characteristic of the species of tree itself . Rot holes , in contrast , need some external agency to initiate them . Park et al . ( 1950 ) discuss the formation and development of such holes at length . All start ...
Pagina 29
... reflect the vicissitudes of rainfall and evaporation , but somewhat larger holes , say between 10 and 20 centimetres in diameter , are suprisingly persistent as aquatic habitats , especially when they form as pans . Some sites sampled ...
... reflect the vicissitudes of rainfall and evaporation , but somewhat larger holes , say between 10 and 20 centimetres in diameter , are suprisingly persistent as aquatic habitats , especially when they form as pans . Some sites sampled ...
Pagina 30
... reflect topography , forest his- tory , and management practices . In general , authors have been unable to show that the species of tree in which tree holes are contained have any impact on the composition of the in- fauna . In ...
... reflect topography , forest his- tory , and management practices . In general , authors have been unable to show that the species of tree in which tree holes are contained have any impact on the composition of the in- fauna . In ...
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