Apparent competition, quantitative food webs, and the structure of phytophagous insect communities

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 51, Issue , 2006, Pages 187-208

  Van Veen, F J Frank ^a   Morris, Rebecca J ^b   Godfray, H Charles J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community structure; Indirect effects; Intraguild predation; Parasitoid; Trait mediated

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; INSECTS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 30844432835     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.51.110104.151120     Document Type: Review

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