Impact of a social parasite on ant host populations depends on host species, habitat and year

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 559-570

  Scharf, Inon ^a,b   Bauer, Sabine ^a   Fischer Blass, Birgit ^a   Foitzik, Susanne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Host parasite interactions; Life history; Local adaptation; Predation; Social insects; Sympatric and allopatric predators

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALLOPATRY; ANT; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL INSECT; SYMPATRY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 79959195627     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01638.x     Document Type: Article

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