Coexistence and niche segregation by field populations of the parasitoids Cotesia glomerata and C. rubecula in the Netherlands: Predicting field performance from laboratory data

Oecologia

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-63

  Geervliet, Jacqueline B F ^a   Verdel, Monique S W ^a   Snellen, Henk ^a   Schaub, Jasmin ^a   Dicke, Marcel ^a   Vet, Louise E M ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competition; Hymenoptera; Infochemicals; Learning; Tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; HOST LOCATION; HOST PREFERENCE; NICHE PARTITIONING; PARASITOID;

NETHERLANDS;

BRACONIDAE; COTESIA GLOMERATA; COTESIA RUBECULA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS RAPAE;

EID: 0033853258     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050024     Document Type: Article

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