Non-random distribution among a guild of parasitoids: Implications for community structure and host survival

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 557-563

  Rossi, Anthony M ^a   Murray, Melissa ^a   Hughes, Kelly ^b   Kotowski, Martin ^a   Moon, Daniel C ^a   Stiling, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asphondylia borrichiae; Borrichia frutescens; Community structure; Gall midges; Parasitoids

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GALL; GALL INSECT; GUILD; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; PARASITOID; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL; WASP;

ADONIS VERNALIS; ASPHONDYLIA; ASPHONDYLIA BORRICHIAE; BOCCONIA FRUTESCENS; BORRICHIA; BORRICHIA FRUTESCENS; CECIDOMYIIDAE; GALEOPSOMYIA; TORYMUS;

EID: 33845591570     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2006.00822.x     Document Type: Article

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