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Food Webs and Container Habitats: the Natural History and Ecology of Phytotelmata.
No full textThe 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 Based on thirty years' research in many parts of the world, this work presents much previously unpublished information, in addition to summarising over a hundred years of natural history observations by others.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 wideranging 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 president of the Australian Entomological Society and the Australian Institute of Biology, and currently chairs the Biodiversity Advisory Council, the major federal government advisory body on biodiversity affairs in Australia. Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Information regarding prices, travel timetables and other factual information given in this work are correct at the time of first printing but Cambridge University Press does not guarantee the accuracy of such information thereafter
