Biocomplexity Project: A Synthetic Approach to Phytotelmata Communities
A list of references to phytotelmata communities and pitcher plants.
This list is intended to serve as an introduction to the literature, not as a comprehensive review.
Adamec, L. 1997. Mineral nutrition of carnivorous plants: a review. Botanical Review 63:273-299.
Addicott, J. F. 1974. Predation and prey community structure: an experimental study of the effect of mosquito larvae on the protozoan communities of pitcher plants. Ecology 55:475-492.
Arber, A. 1941. On the morphology of the pitcher-leaves in Heliamphora, Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, Cephalotus, and Nepenthes. Annals of Botany 5:563-578.
Bateman, L. E. 1987. A bdelloid rotifer living as an inquiline in leaves of the pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea. Hydrobiologia 147:129-133.
Beaver, R. A. 1985. Geographical variation in food web structure in Nepenthes pitcher plants. Ecological Entomology 10:241-248.
Bledzki, L. A., and A. M. Ellison. 1998. Population growth and production of Habrotrocha rosa Donner (Rotifera: Bdelloidea) and its contribution to the nutrient supply of its host, the northern pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea L. (Sarraceniaceae). Hydrobiologia 385:193-200.
Bradshaw, W. E., and R. A. Creelman. 1984. Mutualism between the carnivorous purple pitcher plant and its inhabitants. American Midland Naturalist 11:294-303.
Bradshaw, W. E., and C. M. Holzapfel. 1986. Geography of density-dependent selection in pitcher-plant mosquitoes. Pages 48-65 in F. Taylor and R. Karban (ed.), The Evolution of Insect Life Cycles. Springer-Verlag, New York.
Bradshaw, W. E., and C. M. Holzapfel. 1989. Life-historical consequences of density-dependent selection in the pitcher-plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii. American Naturalist 133:869-887.
Bradshaw, W. E., and C. M. Holzapfel. 1992. Reproductive consequences of density-dependent size variation in the pitcherplant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii (Diptera: Culicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 85:274-281.
Broberg, L., and W. E. Bradshaw. 1995. Density-dependent development in Wyeomyia smithii (Diptera: Culicidae): Intraspecific competition is not the result of interference. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 88:465-470.
Chapin, C. T., and J. Pastor. 1995. Nutrient limitations in the northern pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea. Canadian Journal of Botany 73:728-734.
Christensen, N. L. 1976. The role of carnivory in Sarracenia flava L. with regard to specific nutrient deficiencies. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 92:144-147.
Cochran-Stafira, D. L., and C. N. von Ende. 1998. Integrating bacteria into food webs: studies with Sarracenia purpurea inquilines. Ecology 79:880-898.
Cresswell, J. E. 1991. Capture rates and composition of insect prey of the pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea. American Midland Naturalist 125:1-9.
Cresswell, J. E. 1993. The morphological correlates of prey capture and resource parasitism in pitchers of the carnivorous plant Sarracenia purpurea. American Midland Naturalist 129:35-41.
Deppe, J.L., W.J. Dress, A.J. Nastase, S.J. Newell, and C.S. Luciano. 2000. Diel variation of sugar amount in nectar from pitchers of Sarracenia purpurea L. with and without insect visitors. American Midland Naturalist 144:123-132.
Eleuterius, L. N., and S. B. Jones. 1969. A floristic and ecological study of pitcher plant bogs in south Mississippi. Rhodora 71:29-34.
Ellison A.M., and N.J. Gotelli. 2002. Nitrogen availability alters the expression of carnivory in the nothern pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99:4409-4412.
Fashing, N. J., and B. M. OâConnor. 1984. Sarraceniopus--a new genus for histiostomatid mites inhabiting the pitchers of Sarraceniaceae (Astigmata: Histiostomatidae). International Journal of Acarology 10:217-227.
Fish, D., and D. W. Hall. 1978. Succession and stratification of aquatic insects inhabiting the leaves of the insectivorous pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea. American Midland Naturalist 99:172-183.
Greeney H.F., 2001. The insects of plant-held waters: a review and bibliography. Journal of Tropical Ecology 17: 241-260.
Gibson, T. C. 1983. Competition, disturbance, and the carnivorous plant community in southeastern U.S. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
Givnish, T. J. 1989. Ecology and evolution of carnivorous plants. Pages 243-290 in W. G. Abrahamson (ed.), Plant Animal Interactions. McGraw-Hill, New York.
Godt M.J.W., and J.L. Hamrick. 1998. Genetic divergence among infraspecific taxa of Sarracenia purpurea. Systematic Botany 23:427-438.
Harvey, E., and T. E. Miller. 1996. Variance in composition of inquiline communities in leaves of Sarracenia purpurea L. on multiple spatial scales. Oecologia 108:562-566.
Heard, S. B. 1994. Pitcher plant midges and mosquitoes: a processing chain commensalism. Ecology 75:1647-1660.
Heard, S. B. 1995. Imperfect oviposition decisions by the pitcher plant mosquito (Wyeomyia smithii). Evolutionary Ecology 8:493-502.
Heslop-Harrison, Y. 1976. Enzyme secretion and digest update in carnivorous plants. Pages 463-476 in N. Sunderland (ed.), Perspectives in Experimental Biology Volume 2. Pergamon Press, Oxford.
Istock, C. A., S. S. Wassermann, and H. Zimmer. 1975. Ecology and evolution of the pitcher-plant mosquito: 1. Population dynamics and laboratory responses to food and population density. Evolution 29:296-312.
Kingsolver, J. G. 1979. Thermal and hydric aspects of environmental heterogeneity in the pitcher plant mosquito. Ecological Monographs 49:357-376.
Kneitel, J. M., and T. E. Miller. The effects of resource and top-predator addition to the inquiline community of the pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea. Ecology, in press.
Krawcuk M.A., and P.D. Taylor. 1999. Roosting behaviour by Fletcheromyia fletcheri (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) in Sarracenia purpurea (Sarraceniacea). Canadian Entomologist 131:829-830.
Miller, T., D. Cassill, C. Johnson, C. Kindell, J. Leips, D. McInnes, T. Bevis, D. Mehlman, and B. Richard. 1994. Intraspecific and interspecific competition of Wyeomyia smithii (Coq.) (Culicidae) in pitcher plant communities. American Midland Naturalist 131:136-145.
Miller, T., J. M. Kneitel, and J. Burns. Effects of community structure on invasion success and rate. Ecology, in press.
Naczi, R.F.C., E.M. Soper, F.W. Case, and R. B. Case. 1999. Sarracenia rosea
(Sarraceniaceae), A New Species of Pitcher Plant From The Southeastern
United States. SIDA 18(4):1183-1206.Naeem, S. 1988. Resource heterogeneity fosters coexistence of a mite and a midge in pitcher plants. Ecological Monographs 58:215-227.
Nastase, A. J., C. de la Rosa, and S. J. Newell. 1991. A comparison of three methods for collecting dipteran insect larvae which inhabit the northern pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea). American Midland Naturalist 125:356-359.
Petersen, R. L., A. Faust, J. Nagawa, C. Thomas, and A. Vilmenay. 2000. Foreign mosquito survivorship in the pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea -- the role of the pitcher-plant midge Metriocnemus knabi. Hydrobiologia 439:13-19.
Petersen, R. L., L. Hanley, E. Walsh, H. Hunt, and R. M. Duffield. 1997. Occurrence of the rotifer, Habrotocha cf. rosa Donner, in the purple pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea L. (Sarraceniaceae), along the eastern seaboard of North America. Hydrobiologia 354:63-66.
Prankevicius, A. B., and D. M. Cameron. 1989. Free-living dinitrogen-fixing bacteria in the leaf of the northern pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea L.). Naturaliste Canadien (Québec) 116:245-249.
Prankevicius, A. B., and D. M. Cameron. 1991. Bacterial dinitrogen fixation in the leaf of the northern pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea). Canadian Journal of Botany 69:2296-2298.
Rojo-Herguedas I, and J.L. Olmo. 1999. The ciliated protozoa of the pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea. Acta protozoologica 38:155-159.
Sheridan P.M., and R.J. Griesbach. 2001. Anthocyanidins of Sarracenia L. flowers and leaves. Hortiscience 36:384-384.
Wolfe, L. M. 1981. Feeding behavior of a plant: differential prey capture in old and new leaves of the pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea). American Midland Naturalist 352-359.