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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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 i
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Pagina vii
... Pitcher plants Tree holes Bamboo internodes Axil waters Minor categories 3. The container fauna Saprophages Predators Top predators Minor categories 4. The phytotelm environment Patterns of occurrence of habitat units Dimensions and ...
... Pitcher plants Tree holes Bamboo internodes Axil waters Minor categories 3. The container fauna Saprophages Predators Top predators Minor categories 4. The phytotelm environment Patterns of occurrence of habitat units Dimensions and ...
Pagina viii
... pitcher plants in the Old-World tropics Connections 8. Food-web variation within a continent: the communities of ... pitcher plant in Borneo Connections 73 82 91 93 93 98 101 105 114 116 120 136 137 139 141 157 175 176 177 181 188 194 ...
... pitcher plants in the Old-World tropics Connections 8. Food-web variation within a continent: the communities of ... pitcher plant in Borneo Connections 73 82 91 93 93 98 101 105 114 116 120 136 137 139 141 157 175 176 177 181 188 194 ...
Pagina 2
... pitcher plants, and the opportunity to follow up this impression with my graduate student Charles Clarke, an indomitable pitcherplant enthusiast and field worker, had been just too much to resist. We walked gingerly through the ...
... pitcher plants, and the opportunity to follow up this impression with my graduate student Charles Clarke, an indomitable pitcherplant enthusiast and field worker, had been just too much to resist. We walked gingerly through the ...
Pagina 4
... pitcher plant Cephalotus follicularis shares with other genera of pitchers its predilection for nutrient-poor ... plants, water-filled tree holes, water-filled bamboo internodes, a wide range of water bodies in the leaf axils of fleshy plants ...
... pitcher plant Cephalotus follicularis shares with other genera of pitchers its predilection for nutrient-poor ... plants, water-filled tree holes, water-filled bamboo internodes, a wide range of water bodies in the leaf axils of fleshy plants ...
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 ... Roger Laurence Kitching Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2000 |
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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