Competitive Abilities in Experimental Microcosms Are Accurately Predicted by a Demographic Index for R*

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Murrell, Ebony G ^a   Juliano, Steven A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; DETRITUS; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RESOURCE COMPETITION THEORY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; THEORY;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CULICIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; FERTILITY; LINEAR MODELS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WING;

HEXAPODA; METAZOA;

EID: 84866096105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043458     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Tilman D (1982) Resource competition and community structure. Princeton Monographs in Population Biology 17. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 296 p.
2. Chase JM, Leibold MA (2003) Ecological Niches: Linking Classical and Contemporary Approaches. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 216 p.
3. Inouye BD, (2001) Response surface experimental designs for investigating interspecific competition. Ecology 82: 2696-2706.
4. Juliano SA, (2010) Coexistence, exclusion, or neutrality? A meta-analysis of competition between Aedes albopictus and resident mosquitoes. Isr J Ecol Evol 56: 325-351.
5. Juliano SA, (2009) Species interactions among larval mosquitoes: Context dependence across habitat gradients. Ann Rev Entomol 54: 37-56.
6. Damgaard C, Fayolle A, (2010) Measuring the importance of competition: a new formulation of the problem. J Ecol 98: 1-6.
7. de Villemereuil PB, Lüpez-Sepulcre A, (2011) Consumer functional responses under intra- and inter-specific interference competition. Ecol Model 222: 419-426.
8. MacArthur RH (1972) Geographical ecology: patterns in the distribution of species. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 288 p.
9. Grover JP (1997) Resource competition. New York: Chapman & Hall. 352 p.
10. Tilman D, Wedin D, (1991) Plant traits and resource reduction for five grasses growing on a nitrogen gradient. Ecology 72: 685-700.
11. Sommer U, (1986) Nitrate- and silicate-competition among Antarctic phytoplankton. Mar Biol 91: 345-351.
12. Rothhaupt KO, (1988) Mechanistic resource competition theory applied to laboratory experiments with zooplankton. Nature 333: 660-662.
13. van Donk E, Kilham SS, (1990) Temperature effects on silicon- and phosphorus-limited growth and competitive interactions among three diatoms. J Phycol 26: 40-50.
14. Kirk KL, (2002) Competition in variable environments: experiments with planktonic rotifers. Freshwater Biol 47: 1089-1096.
15. Miller TE, Burns JH, Munguia P, Walters EL, Kneitel JM, et al. (2005) A critical review of twenty years' use of the resource-ratio theory. Amer Nat 165: 439-448.
16. Ives AR, Foufopoulos J, Klopfer ED, Klug JL, Palmer TM, (1996) Bottle or big-scale studies: How do we do ecology? Ecology 77: 681-685.
17. Gliwicz ZM, (1990) Food thresholds and body size in cladocerans. Nature 343: 638-640.
18. Juliano SA, Lounibos LP, (2005) Ecology of invasive mosquitoes: effects on resident species and on human health. Ecol Letters 8: 558-574.
19. Livdahl TP, Sugihara G, (1984) Non-linear interactions of populations and the importance of estimating per capita rates of change. J Anim Ecol 53: 573-580.
20. Livdahl T, Willey M, (1991) Prospects for an invasion: competition between Aedes albopictus and native A. triseriatus. Science 253: 198-191.
21. Juliano SA, (1998) Species introduction and replacement among mosquitoes: Interspecific resource competition or apparent competition? Ecology 79: 255-268.
22. Murrell EG, Juliano SA, (2008) Detritus type alters the outcome of interspecific competition between Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae). J Med Entomol 45: 375-383.
23. Leisnham PT, Lounibos LP, O'Meara GF, Juliano SA, (2009) Geographic divergence in competitive effect and response of the mosquito Aedes albopictus and the potential role of a non-competing life-stage in its invasion success. Ecology 90: 2405-2413.
24. Merritt RW, Dadd RH, Walker ED, (1992) Feeding behavior, natural food, and nutritional relationships of larval mosquitoes. Ann Rev Entomol 37: 349-376.
25. Yee DA, Kesavaraju B, Juliano SA, (2004) Larval feeding behavior of three co-occurring species of container mosquitoes. J Vector Ecol 29: 315-322.
26. Yee DA, Kesavaraju B, Juliano SA, (2004) Interspecific differences in feeding behavior and survival under food-limited conditions for larval Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae). Ann Entomol Soc Am 97: 720-728.
27. Yee DA, Kesavaraju B, Juliano SA, (2007) Direct and indirect effects of animal detritus on growth, survival, and mass of the invasive container mosquito Aedes albopictus. J Med Entomol 44: 580-588.
28. Yee DA, Juliano SA, (2011) Concurrent effects of resource pulse amount, type, and frequency on community and population properties of consumers in detritus-based systems. Oecologia In press.
29. Jenkins B, Kitching RL, Pimm SL, (1992) Productivity, disturbance and food web structure at a local spatial scale in experimental container habitats. Oikos 65: 249-255.
30. Halaj J, Wise DH, (2002) Impact of a detrital subsidy on trophic cascades in a terrestrial grazing food web. Ecology 83: 3141-3151.
31. Kaspari M, Yanoviak SP, (2009) Biogeochemistry and the structure of tropical brown food webs. Ecology 90: 3342-3351.
32. Huntsman BM, Venarsky MP, Benstead JP, Huryn AD, (2011) Effects of organic matter availability on the life history and production of a top vertebrate predator (Plethodontidae: Gyrinophilus palleucus) in two cave streams. Freshwater Biol 56: 1746-1760.
33. Costanzo KS, Mormann K, Juliano SA, (2005) Asymmetrical competition and patterns of abundance of Aedes albopictus and Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae). J Med Entomol 42: 559-570.
34. Chmielewski MW, Khatchikian C, Livdahl T, (2010) Estimating the per Capita Rate of Population Change: How Well Do Life-History Surrogates Perform? Ann Entomol Soc Am 103: 734-741.
35. Frankino WA, Juliano SA, (1999) Costs of reproduction and geographic variation in the reproductive tactics of the mosquito Aedes triseriatus. Oecologia 120: 59-68.
36. Leisnham PT, Juliano SA, (2010) Interpopulation differences in competitive effect and response of the mosquito Aedes aegypti and resistance to invasion of a superior competitor. Oecologia 164: 221-230.
37. Juliano SA (2001) Non-linear curve fitting: Predation and functional response curves. In: S.MScheiner and JGurevitch, editors. Design and analysis of ecological experiments. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 178-216.
38. McPeek MA, Peckarsky BL, (1998) Life histories and the strengths of species interactions: combining mortality, growth and fecundity effects. Ecology 79: 867-879.
39. Sibly RM, Hansen FT, Forbes VE, (2000) Confidence intervals for population growth rate of organisms with two-stage life histories. Oikos 88: 335-340.
40. Kammenga JE, Spurgeon DJ, Svendsen C, Weeks JM, (2003) Explaining density-dependent regulation in earthworm populations using life-history analysis. Oikos 100: 89-95.
41. Walker ED, Lawson DL, Merritt RW, Morgan WT, Klug MJ, (1991) Nutrient dynamics, bacterial populations, and mosquito productivity in tree hole ecosystems and microcosms. Ecology 72: 1529-1546.
42. Kaufman MG, Walker ED, Smith TW, Merritt RW, Klug MJ, (1999) Effects of larval mosquitoes (Aedes triseriatus) and stemflow on microbial community dynamics in container habitats. Appl Environ Microbiol 65: 2661-2673.
43. Yee DA, Juliano SA, (2006) Consequences of detritus type in an aquatic microsystem: effects on water quality, micro-organisms and performance of the dominant consumer. Freshwater Biol 51: 448-459.
44. Fish D, Carpenter SR, (1982) Leaf litter and larval mosquito dynamics in tree-hole ecosystems. Ecology 63: 283-288.
45. Yee DA, Kaufman MG, Juliano SA, (2007) The significance of ratios of detritus types and microorganism productivity to competitive interactions between aquatic insect detritivores. J Anim Ecol 76: 1105-1115.
46. Gibson DJ, Connolly J, Hartnett DC, Weidenhamer JD, (1999) Designs for greenhouse studies of interactions between plants. J Ecol 87: 1-16.
47. Briegel H, (1990) Metabolic relationship between female body size, reserves, and fecundity of Aedes aegypti. J Insect Physiol 36: 165-172.
48. Lounibos LP, Suárez S, Menéndez Z, Nishimura N, Escher RL, et al. (2002) Does temperature affect the outcome of larval competition between Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus? J Vector Ecol 27: 86-95.
49. Vinogradova EB, Karpova SG, (2006) Effect of photoperiod and temperature on the autogeny rate, fecundity and wing length in the urban mosquito, Culex pipiens pipiens f. molestus (Diptera, Culicidae). Int J Dipterol Res 17: 3-12.