Thermal tolerance of sympatric hymenopteran parasitoid species: Does it match seasonal activity?

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-28

  Le Lann, Cecile ^a   Roux, Olivier ^b,c   Serain, Nelly ^a   Van Alphen, Jacques J M ^a   Vernon, Philippe ^a   Van Baaren, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c Campus Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Climate change; Critical thermal limits; Dry mass; Guild; Hind tibia length; Seasonal activities; Surface to volume ratio

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECTOTHERMY; FITNESS; GUILD; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; INSECT; LIMB; LOW TEMPERATURE; PHENOLOGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SYMPATRY; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

APHIDIINAE; APHIDIUS; APHIDIUS RHOPALOSIPHI; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 79951538983     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2010.00758.x     Document Type: Article

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