Linking foraging behavior to lifetime reproductive success for an insect parasitoid: Adaptation to host distributions

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 236-245

  Vos, Matthijs ^a,b   Hemerik, Lia ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fitness; Hierarchical patches; Information use; Patch choice; Patch leaving; Spatial foraging behavior

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

BRACONIDAE; COTESIA GLOMERATA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PHACELIA CONGESTA; PIERIDAE; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PIERIS RAPAE;

EID: 0037355130     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/14.2.236     Document Type: Article

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