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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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 16
... mosquito Uranotaenia diagonalis and, occasionally, the voracious predatory larvae of the muscid fly Graphomya. The muscid larvae, unlike the mosquitoes on which they feed, are able to move freely from one bract axil to the next in order ...
... mosquito Uranotaenia diagonalis and, occasionally, the voracious predatory larvae of the muscid fly Graphomya. The muscid larvae, unlike the mosquitoes on which they feed, are able to move freely from one bract axil to the next in order ...
Pagina 17
... mosquito larvae from the rain-water pools collected in the concave tops of fungal basidiocarps. In reviewing the plant groups from which an aquatic metazoan fauna has been recorded I draw heavily on the reviews of Thienemann (1934, 1954) ...
... mosquito larvae from the rain-water pools collected in the concave tops of fungal basidiocarps. In reviewing the plant groups from which an aquatic metazoan fauna has been recorded I draw heavily on the reviews of Thienemann (1934, 1954) ...
Pagina 25
... mosquito Wyeomyia smithii and, to a lesser extent, the chironomid midge Metriocnemus knabi. Few authors have ... mosquitoes from H. heterodoxa and H. nutans. Jaffe et al. studied H. heterodoxa. H. minor, H. ionasii and H. tatei in the ...
... mosquito Wyeomyia smithii and, to a lesser extent, the chironomid midge Metriocnemus knabi. Few authors have ... mosquitoes from H. heterodoxa and H. nutans. Jaffe et al. studied H. heterodoxa. H. minor, H. ionasii and H. tatei in the ...
Pagina 30
... mosquito, Aedes triseriatus and Ae. hendersoni. Finally, Mattingly (1969), amongst other authors, identifies the tendency of sabethine mosquito species to seek out smaller tree holes, often with cryptic entrances. Although there is a ...
... mosquito, Aedes triseriatus and Ae. hendersoni. Finally, Mattingly (1969), amongst other authors, identifies the tendency of sabethine mosquito species to seek out smaller tree holes, often with cryptic entrances. Although there is a ...
Pagina 31
... mosquitoes – see Tables A.5, A.6) Author(s) Year(s) Subject matter Beattie & Howland 1929 Fauna and micro-organisms from English tree holes Brandt 1934 Environment and organisms in beech tree holes, Germany Fashing 1975 Tree-hole mites ...
... mosquitoes – see Tables A.5, A.6) Author(s) Year(s) Subject matter Beattie & Howland 1929 Fauna and micro-organisms from English tree holes Brandt 1934 Environment and organisms in beech tree holes, Germany Fashing 1975 Tree-hole mites ...
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