Superparasitism and sex ratio adjustment in a wasp parasitoid: Results at variance with Local Mate Competition?

Oecologia

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 365-373

  Santolamazza Carbone, Serena ^a   Cordero Rivera, Adolfo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anaphes nitens; Body size; Host density; Mymaridae; Pre emergence mortality

Indexed keywords

INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; SEX RATIO; SUPERPARASITISM; WASP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; FEMALE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL; WASP;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BODY CONSTITUTION; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MALE; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WASPS;

ANAPHES NITENS; ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; EUCALYPTUS; GONIPTERUS; HYMENOPTERA; MYMARIDAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0043198448     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1269-5     Document Type: Article

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