{"title":"The ecology of animals","authors":"R. Corlett","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198817017.003.0005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Most biomass consists of plants but most non-microbial species are animals, and these animals play a great diversity of roles in tropical ecosystems. This chapter therefore deals with the ecology of Tropical East Asia from an animal perspective, focusing on the diets of both vertebrates and invertebrates, and the role of food quality and phenology in diet choice. Specialist and generalist feeders are distinguished and contrasted. The major diet groups covered include the herbivores (including leaf, shoot, root, bark, and wood feeders, as well as sap suckers and honeydew feeding ants), flower visitors, frugivores, granivores, detritivores, carnivores (including specialists on invertebrates and vertebrates), blood feeders, parasites and parasitoids, omnivores, scavengers, and coprophages.","PeriodicalId":247829,"journal":{"name":"The Ecology of Tropical East Asia","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Ecology of Tropical East Asia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817017.003.0005","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Most biomass consists of plants but most non-microbial species are animals, and these animals play a great diversity of roles in tropical ecosystems. This chapter therefore deals with the ecology of Tropical East Asia from an animal perspective, focusing on the diets of both vertebrates and invertebrates, and the role of food quality and phenology in diet choice. Specialist and generalist feeders are distinguished and contrasted. The major diet groups covered include the herbivores (including leaf, shoot, root, bark, and wood feeders, as well as sap suckers and honeydew feeding ants), flower visitors, frugivores, granivores, detritivores, carnivores (including specialists on invertebrates and vertebrates), blood feeders, parasites and parasitoids, omnivores, scavengers, and coprophages.
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