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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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
... regions Tree holes in Britain , USA , Sulawesi and Australasia Nepenthes pitcher plants in the Old - World tropics ... regional and local variation in tree - hole and Nepenthes webs Metapopulations , structured demes and heterogeneous ...
... regions Tree holes in Britain , USA , Sulawesi and Australasia Nepenthes pitcher plants in the Old - World tropics ... regional and local variation in tree - hole and Nepenthes webs Metapopulations , structured demes and heterogeneous ...
Pagina ix
... regional scale 285 The local scale Part V : Synthesis 288 291 14. A food - web templet 293 Other templets 293 A food - web templet 295 Two summarising questions 297 Conclusions 299 Annexe : The phytotelm bestiary Phylum ...
... regional scale 285 The local scale Part V : Synthesis 288 291 14. A food - web templet 293 Other templets 293 A food - web templet 295 Two summarising questions 297 Conclusions 299 Annexe : The phytotelm bestiary Phylum ...
Pagina 1
... region of northern Borneo . But this is the perhumid tropics and wet- ness is the order of the day - any day . Treacherous quicksands lie centimetres below the scorched white sand and the peat - swamp forest on each side of the stream ...
... region of northern Borneo . But this is the perhumid tropics and wet- ness is the order of the day - any day . Treacherous quicksands lie centimetres below the scorched white sand and the peat - swamp forest on each side of the stream ...
Pagina 4
... region of Brunei , I found , in addition to six species of Nepenthes pitcher plants , water - filled tree holes , water - filled bamboo internodes , a wide range of water bodies in the leaf axils of fleshy plants and the bract axils of ...
... region of Brunei , I found , in addition to six species of Nepenthes pitcher plants , water - filled tree holes , water - filled bamboo internodes , a wide range of water bodies in the leaf axils of fleshy plants and the bract axils of ...
Pagina 8
... region of far north Queensland based at Cape Tribulation . During this period Jenkins and I carried out the most extensive study of tree - hole communities that I am aware of , sampling and analysing the contents of over eighty sites ...
... region of far north Queensland based at Cape Tribulation . During this period Jenkins and I carried out the most extensive study of tree - hole communities that I am aware of , sampling and analysing the contents of over eighty sites ...
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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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