The importance of valuing resources: host weight and contender age as determinants of parasitoid wasp contest outcomes

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 891-898

  Humphries, Emily L ^a   Hebblethwaite, Alison J ^a   Batchelor, Tim P ^a   Hardy, Ian C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CONTEST COMPETITION; HOST; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; OWNERSHIP; PARASITOID; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

ANIMALIA; GONIOZUS NEPHANTIDIS;

EID: 33748620047     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.02.015     Document Type: Article

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