Are island and mainland biotas different? richness and level of generalism in parasitoids of a microlepidopteran in macaronesia

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1256-1262

  Santos, Ana M C ^a,b,c   Fontaine, Colin ^a,d   Quicke, Donald L J ^a,b   Borges, Paulo A V ^c   Hortal, Joaquín ^a,e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^e MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECTOPARASITE; HOST RANGE; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; ISLAND; LARVA; MOTH; PARASITISM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

MACARONESIA;

LEPIDOPTERA; MICROLEPIDOPTERA; TORTRICIDAE;

EID: 79960640477     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.19404.x     Document Type: Article

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