Scared sick? predator-pathogen facilitation enhances exploitation of a shared resource

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2832-2839

  Ramirez, Ricardo A ^a   Snyder, William E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Complementarity; Disease ecology; Ecosystem function; Functional diversity; Herbivore defenses; Leptinotarsa decemlineata; Niche partitioning; Predator pathogen complementarity

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; COMPLEMENTARITY; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HERBIVORE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; NICHE PARTITIONING; PATHOGENICITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PUPATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; ECOSYSTEM; HETEROPTERA; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; ECOSYSTEM; HETEROPTERA; LARVA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

COLEOPTERA; LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA;

EID: 70349289585     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1941.1     Document Type: Article

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