Habitat assessment by parasitoids: Mechanisms for patch use behavior

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 515-521

  Tentelier, Cédric ^a,c   Desouhant, Emmanuel ^b   Fauvergue, Xavier ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Learning; Lysiphlebus testaceipes; Marginal value theorem; Optimal foraging theory; Patch size; Travel time

Indexed keywords

APHID; COLONY FOUNDING; ENCOUNTER RATE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; LABORATORY METHOD; PARASITOID; PATCH USE; RESIDENCE TIME; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRAVEL TIME;

ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; LYSIPHLEBUS TESTACEIPES;

EID: 33745596816     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arj062     Document Type: Article

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