Indirect competition facilitates widespread displacement of one naturalized parasitoid of imported fire ants by another

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1184-1194

  Lebrun, E G ^a   Plowes, R M ^a   Gilbert, L E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Central Texas; Competition; Competitive displacement; Fire ant control; Phorid fly parasitoid; Pseudacteon curvatus; Pseudacteon tricuspis; Rare species; Solenopsis invicta; Trait mediated indirect effect; USA

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BODY SIZE; COEXISTENCE; FLY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PARASITOID; RARE SPECIES; SEX RATIO;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES; WASP;

ANIMALS; ANTS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEXAS; WASPS;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

PHORIDAE; PSEUDACTEON CURVATUS; PSEUDACTEON TRICUSPIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 66149103253     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-0852.1     Document Type: Article

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