Food Webs and Container Habitats The Natural History and Ecology of Phytotelmata

Name: Food Webs and Container Habitats The Natural History and Ecology of Phytotelmata
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ISBN: 9780521773164

ISBN-10: 0521773164

ISBN-13: 9780521773164

Edition: 2000

Authors: R. L. Kitching

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The animal communities in plant-held water bodies have become models for food web studies. This work introduces readers to these miniature worlds and demonstrates how they can be used to tackle some of the major questions in community ecology.

Book details

List price: $208.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/3/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.29" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



The Container Flora, Fauna and Environment



The container flora



The container fauna



The phytotelm environment



Methods and Theories



The construction and quantification of food webs



Processes structuring food webs



Patterns in Phytotelm Food Webs



Food-web variation across geographical regions



Food-web variation within a continent: the communities of tree-holes from Tasmania to Cape Tribulation



Food-web variation at smaller spatial scales: regional and local variation in tree-hole and Nepenthes webs



The role of the host plant



Variation through time: seasonality, invasion and reassembly, succession



Processes Structuring Food Webs



Competition and predation - basic forces structuring the community?



Stochasticism and determinism: processes structuring fod webs in phytotelmata



Synthesis



A food-web templet


Annexe


References


Index