Competition with filamentous fungi and its implication for a gregarious lifestyle in insects living on ephemeral resources

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 556-563

  Rohlfs, Marko ^a   Obmann, Björn ^a   Petersen, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Allee effect; Density dependence; Drosophila melanogaster; Fungi; Survival

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; FOOD; FUNGUS; INSECT; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LARVA; MORTALITY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SURVIVAL;

ALTERNARIA; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PENICILLIUM;

EID: 33644745442     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-6946.2005.00722.x     Document Type: Article

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