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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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 7
... Beaver ( 1990 ) . The 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 ...
... Beaver ( 1990 ) . The 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 ...
Pagina 9
... Beaver on Nepenthes pitcher plants in West Malaysia ; Bradshaw , Frank , Lounibos and many others on phytotelm mosquitoes in North , Cen- tral and South America ; Seifert on the axil waters of Heliconia species in Central America ...
... Beaver on Nepenthes pitcher plants in West Malaysia ; Bradshaw , Frank , Lounibos and many others on phytotelm mosquitoes in North , Cen- tral and South America ; Seifert on the axil waters of Heliconia species in Central America ...
Pagina 20
... Beaver 1978 Bromeliad genera or species Tillandsia spp . General General Subject matter Bibliography Population dynamics of eleven species of ostracod Faunal associates , particularly Odonata , in Venezuela Fauna associated with ...
... Beaver 1978 Bromeliad genera or species Tillandsia spp . General General Subject matter Bibliography Population dynamics of eleven species of ostracod Faunal associates , particularly Odonata , in Venezuela Fauna associated with ...
Pagina 24
... Beaver , both in describing the insect asso- ciates of pitchers from West Malaysia ( 1979a , 1980 ) and in synthesising other published information in order to carry out comparative analyses of the food webs contained within pitchers ...
... Beaver , both in describing the insect asso- ciates of pitchers from West Malaysia ( 1979a , 1980 ) and in synthesising other published information in order to carry out comparative analyses of the food webs contained within pitchers ...
Pagina 26
... Beaver 1979a Beaver 1980 Beaver 1983 Nepenthes spp . Nepenthes spp . Nepenthes spp . Insect associates of N. ampullaria , N. albomarginata and N. gracilis Insect associates of N. ampullaria , N. albomarginata and N. gracilis Review of ...
... Beaver 1979a Beaver 1980 Beaver 1983 Nepenthes spp . Nepenthes spp . Nepenthes spp . Insect associates of N. ampullaria , N. albomarginata and N. gracilis Insect associates of N. ampullaria , N. albomarginata and N. gracilis Review of ...
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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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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