Food webs and container habitats : the natural history and ecology of phytotelmata /

Food webs and container habitats : the natural history and ecology of phytotelmata /

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Author / Creator:Kitching, R. L. (Roger Laurence), 1945-
Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 431 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Subject:
Aquatic ecology.
Aquatic habitats.
Food chains (Ecology)
Aquatic ecology.
Aquatic habitats.
Food chains (Ecology)
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11130805
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ISBN:0511017707
9780511017704
0511049854
9780511049859
0511173865
9780511173868
9780521773164
0521773164
9786610429530
6610429537
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9781107119796
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9781280429538
0511153120
9780511153129
0511542100
9780511542107
9780521120005
0521120004
0521773164
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-418).
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Providing a unique introduction to the natural history and ecology of container habitats, such as pitcher plants, this book also highlights their importance in tackling some of the major questions in community ecology. It will be of interest to researchers working in tropical and other forest ecology, and entomology.
Other form:Print version: Kitching, R.L. (Roger Laurence), 1945- Food webs and container habitats. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521773164
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I. The Container Flora, Fauna and Environment
  • 2. The container flora
  • 3. The container fauna
  • 4. The phytotelm environment
  • Part II. Methods and Theories
  • 5. The construction and quantification of food webs
  • 6. Processes structuring food webs
  • Part III. Patterns in Phytotelm Food Webs
  • 7. Food-web variation across geographical regions
  • 8. Food-web variation within a continent: the communities of tree-holes from Tasmania to Cape Tribulation
  • 9. Food-web variation at smaller spatial scales: regional and local variation in tree-hole and Nepenthes webs
  • 10. The role of the host plant
  • 11. Variation through time: seasonality, invasion and reassembly, succession
  • Part IV. Processes Structuring Food Webs
  • 12. Competition and predation - basic forces structuring the community?
  • 13. Stochasticism and determinism: processes structuring fod webs in phytotelmata
  • Part V. Synthesis
  • 14. A food-web templet
  • Annexe
  • References
  • Index

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