Testing intraguild predation theory in a field system: Does numerical dominance shift along a gradient of productivity?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 929-935

  Borer, Elizabeth T ^a   Briggs, Cheryl J ^b   Murdoch, William W ^a   Swarbrick, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphytis melinus; California red scale; Community theory; Encarsia perniciosi; Food web; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; FOOD WEB; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; PRODUCTIVITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

ACARI; AONIDIELLA AURANTII; APHELINIDAE; APHYTIS; APHYTIS MELINUS; CITRUS; CITRUS LIMON; CITRUS X PARADISI; ENCARSIA; ENCARSIA PERNICIOSI; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; TRIXIS;

EID: 0141595115     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00515.x     Document Type: Article

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