The importance of being larger: Parasitoid intruder-owner contests and their implications for clutch size

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1363-1373

  Petersen, Ghita ^b   Hardy, Ian C W ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTCH SIZE; PARASITOID;

BETHYLIDAE; GONIOZUS NEPHANTIDIS; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0030442324     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0139     Document Type: Article

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