The influence of competition between foragers on clutch size decisions in an insect parasitoid with scramble larval competition

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 109-114

  Visser, Marcel E ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clutch size; Competition; Parasitoids; Superparasitism

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; COMPETITION; HOST ENCOUNTER RATE; PARASITOID; SCRAMBLE COMPETITION;

APHAERETA MINUTA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0029769238     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/7.1.109     Document Type: Article

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