Different habitats, different habits? Response to foraging information in the parasitic wasp Venturia canescens

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 614-623

  Thiel, Andra ^a,b,c   Driessen, Gerard ^b,d   Hoffmeister, Thomas S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complementary sex determination; Decision making; Habitat predictability; Optimal foraging; Patch time allocation; Reproductive mode

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; OPTIMUM FORAGING THEORY; PARASITOID; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONIDAE; VENTURIA CANESCENS; VESPOIDEA;

EID: 32144441474     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0088-6     Document Type: Article

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