TAILIEUCHUNG - FOOD WEBS AND CONTAINER HABITATS: The natural history and ecology of phytotelmata

This book owes its inception to my fascination with the natural microcosms that are water-filled tree holes and, subsequently, the broader class of plant container habitats we call phytotelmata. That fascination was born, first, in a Somerset woodland, when my fellow undergraduate Alastair Sommerville pointed out to me a massive stump hole, commenting that such places were both entomologically special and of great potential as objects of ecological study. | Food Webs and Container Habitats The natural history and ecology of phytotelmata more information - 0521773164 This page intentionally left blank FOOD WEBS AND CONTAINER HABITATS The natural history and ecology of phytotelmata 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 Based on thirty years research in many parts of the world this work presents much previously unpublished information in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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. ROGER l. kitching holds the Chair of Ecology at Griffith University Brisbane. A graduate of Imperial College London and the University of Oxford he has spent the greater part of his working life in Australia with wide-ranging interests in the ecology and natural history of insects particularly in rainforests. He is a senior investigator within the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management and was a Bullard Fellow at Harvard University in 1998. Professor Kitching has written over 120 books and papers publishing from time to time in most of the world s ecological journals. He is author of Systems Ecology co-author of Insect Ecology and has edited or co-edited four further books on topics ranging from the ecology of pests to the biology of butterflies. He has served as

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