Food Webs and Container Habitats: The Natural History and Ecology of PhytotelmataThe 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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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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Este livro apresenta a história natural e ecologia das comunidades animais detidos na planta-água, como buracos de árvores e plantas lançador. Neste livro, o professor Kitching introduz-nos a estes fascinantes mundos miniatura e demonstra como podem ser utilizadas para combater algumas das principais questões na comunidade ecologia, incluindo a rede alimentar formação. É uma única introdução ao campo naturalista, um estimulante e fonte de tratamento para graduandos e profissionais que trabalham nos campos da ecologia das florestas tropicais e outros, bem como a entomologia.
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abundance Aedes triseriatus analyses aquatic Australia axil waters axils bamboo internodes Beaver bicalcarata Borneo bracts bromeliads Ceratopogonidae Chapter chironomid co-occurring complex container habitats Culicidae Curcuma detritus Diptera Ecology ecosystems encountered Entomological Society fauna feeding links Figure food webs food-web statistics food-web structure forest genera genus Guinea habitat unit Hypothesis inflorescences insects Laessle Lamington National Park larvae latitude Leaf axil Lounibos Malaysia midge mites mosquito mosquito larvae Nepenthes albomarginata Nepenthes ampullaria Nepenthes bicalcarata Nepenthes pitchers number of predators number of species number of trophic observed occur organisms particular patterns phytotelm phytotelm types phytotelmata Pimm pitcher plants pitchers of Nepenthes predatory species Prediction present prey processes Queensland rainforest range recorded reflect region relationship rot holes rotifers samples saprophages Sarracenia scale South-east spatial specialist species of Nepenthes studies Sulawesi summarised Table Thienemann 1934 top predators Toxorhynchites tree-hole trophic levels variables variation water bodies water-filled tree holes