Indirect commensalism promotes persistence of secondary consumer species

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 960-963

  Sanders, Dirk ^a,b   Van Veen, F J Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Conservation Biology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aphids; Food web; Indirect effects; Parasitoid; Resource competition; Secondary extinctions

Indexed keywords

APHID; BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; COMMENSALISM; EXTINCTION RISK; FOOD WEB; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HOLISTIC APPROACH; PARASITOID; WASP;

EID: 84869819403     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0572     Document Type: Article

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