Aggregative egg distributions may promote species co-existence - But why do they exist?

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 37-50

  Hoffmeister, Thomas S ^a   Rohlfs, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allee effect; Drosophila subobscura; Egg distribution; Fitness; Individual behaviour; Parasitoids; Refuge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001861935     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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