Natural enemy specialization and the period of population cycles

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 381-384

  Rohani, P ^a   Wearing, H J ^a,b   Cameron, T ^c   Sait, S M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Host parasitoid genaralist; Mathematical models; Natural enemies; Population cycles

Indexed keywords

APPARENT COMPETITION; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NATURAL ENEMY; POPULATION CYCLE; SPECIALIST;

EID: 0037737986     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00437.x     Document Type: Review

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