Allee effect in larval resource exploitation in Drosophila: An interaction among density of adults, larvae, and micro-organisms

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 608-617

  Wertheim, Bregje ^a,b   Marchais, Julien ^a   Vet, Louise E M ^a   Dicke, Marcel ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggregation pheromone; Allee effect; Developmental time; Drosophila melanogaster; Fitness; Fungi; Positive density dependence; Size; Survival

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LARVA; MICROORGANISM; POPULATION DENSITY; RESOURCE USE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FUNGI; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0036788102     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.2002.00449.x     Document Type: Article

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