Functional responses: A question of alternative prey and predator density

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1300-1308

  Tschanz, Britta ^a   Bersier, Louis Félix ^b   Bacher, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alternative prey; Cassida rubiginosa; Cirsium arvense; Effective predator density; Polistes dominulus; Predation; Predator interference; Predator dependent functional response; Preference; Prey switching; Ratio dependence; Tenebrio molitor

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; WASP;

CASSIDA RUBIGINOSA; CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM ARVENSE; COLEOPTERA; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTINAE; TENEBRIO; TENEBRIO MOLITOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD PREFERENCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TENEBRIO; WASP;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD PREFERENCES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TENEBRIO; WASPS;

EID: 34447102835     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1512     Document Type: Article

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