The influence of competition between foragers on clutch size decisions in insect parasitoids

Biological Control

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 169-174

  Visser, Marcel E ^a   Rosenheim, Jay A ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphaereta minuta; Clutch size; Comperiella bifasciata; Competition; Parasitoids

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CLUTCH SIZE; COMPETITION; FORAGING; PARASITOID;

APHAERETA MINUTA; COMPERIELLA; COMPERIELLA BIFASCIATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0032007421     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.1997.0589     Document Type: Article

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