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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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 viii
... spatial scales : regional and local variation in tree - hole and Nepenthes webs Metapopulations , structured demes and heterogeneous environments 195 196 Food webs at the regional scale 197 Variation at the local scale 208 Connections ...
... spatial scales : regional and local variation in tree - hole and Nepenthes webs Metapopulations , structured demes and heterogeneous environments 195 196 Food webs at the regional scale 197 Variation at the local scale 208 Connections ...
Pagina 7
... spatial and temporal variability in food - web structure was also based on Lamington data and is described in Kitching ( 1987a ) and Kitching & Beaver ( 1990 ) . Results of our earliest manipulative experiments , carried out here , are ...
... spatial and temporal variability in food - web structure was also based on Lamington data and is described in Kitching ( 1987a ) and Kitching & Beaver ( 1990 ) . Results of our earliest manipulative experiments , carried out here , are ...
Pagina 10
... spatial - large CHAPTER 7 go to Global patterns - treeholes CHAPTER 13 Nepenthes pitchers spatial , intermediate CHAPTER 8 Continental patterns , go to CHAPTER 13 Australian treeholes temporal explanations ? PART 4 Processes & spatial ...
... spatial - large CHAPTER 7 go to Global patterns - treeholes CHAPTER 13 Nepenthes pitchers spatial , intermediate CHAPTER 8 Continental patterns , go to CHAPTER 13 Australian treeholes temporal explanations ? PART 4 Processes & spatial ...
Pagina 11
... spatial and temporal scales , and in so doing poses a series of hypothe- ses which are revisited in Chapter 13 . Part III forms the great bulk of the remainder of the book presenting data from phytotelm studies to illustrate spatial and ...
... spatial and temporal scales , and in so doing poses a series of hypothe- ses which are revisited in Chapter 13 . Part III forms the great bulk of the remainder of the book presenting data from phytotelm studies to illustrate spatial and ...
Pagina 13
... beautiful experiments . This book aims to emphasise that the emergent properties of food webs reflect evolutionary and ecological actions and interactions on a variety of spatial and temporal scales The future 13 On experimentation.
... beautiful experiments . This book aims to emphasise that the emergent properties of food webs reflect evolutionary and ecological actions and interactions on a variety of spatial and temporal scales The future 13 On experimentation.
Inhoudsopgave
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15 | |
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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Food Webs and Container Habitats: The Natural History and Ecology of ... R. L. Kitching Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2009 |
Food Webs and Container Habitats: The Natural History and Ecology of ... Roger Laurence Kitching Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2000 |
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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