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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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 25
... Tree holes A tree hole is any cavity or depression existing in or on a tree . These may be divided , almost without exception , into two distinct categories : those which maintain an unbroken bark lining throughout their existence , and ...
... Tree holes A tree hole is any cavity or depression existing in or on a tree . These may be divided , almost without exception , into two distinct categories : those which maintain an unbroken bark lining throughout their existence , and ...
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... tree holes , based on that occurring in Lamington National Park , south - east Queensland ( Kitching & Callahan 1982 ) ... hole formed through the bark is relatively small , rot holes may heal — over through callus formation by the plant ...
... tree holes , based on that occurring in Lamington National Park , south - east Queensland ( Kitching & Callahan 1982 ) ... hole formed through the bark is relatively small , rot holes may heal — over through callus formation by the plant ...
Pagina 30
... tree - harvesting practice . I have no doubt that in any particular location one or two species of tree will ... hole type ( i.e. pans versus rot holes ) , depth and height of the hole from the ground ( see Chapter 12 ) . Sinsko ...
... tree - harvesting practice . I have no doubt that in any particular location one or two species of tree will ... hole type ( i.e. pans versus rot holes ) , depth and height of the hole from the ground ( see Chapter 12 ) . Sinsko ...
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... hole mites and associates in Kansas and elsewhere Tree - hole mites and their associates in Virginia Predator assemblages in Neotropical tree holes Experimental manipulations of environment , Australia Food - web reassembly ... Tree holes 31.
... hole mites and associates in Kansas and elsewhere Tree - hole mites and their associates in Virginia Predator assemblages in Neotropical tree holes Experimental manipulations of environment , Australia Food - web reassembly ... Tree holes 31.
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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