Invading parasitoids suffer no allee effect: A manipulative field experiment

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2392-2403

  Fauvergue, Xavier ^a   Malausa, Jean Claude ^a   Giuge, Ludovic ^a   Courchamp, Franck ^b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Biological control and invasions; Density dependence; Mate finding; Metcalfa pruinosa; Neodryinus typhlocybae; Parasitoid introduction; Propagule pressure; Rescue effect

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; PARASITOID; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PROPAGULE; WASP;

HEXAPODA; METCALFA PRUINOSA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMIPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION; WASP;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; HEMIPTERA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; WASPS;

EID: 38449095296     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1238.1     Document Type: Article

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