Predation resistance does not trade off with competitive ability in early-colonizing mosquitoes

Oecologia

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1033-1042

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

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes; Colonization competition tradeoff; Competition predation tradeoff; Culex; Mosquitoes; Succession

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTATION; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BIOASSAY; COLONIZATION; MOSQUITO; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SUCCESSION; TRADE-OFF; VULNERABILITY;

CARYA; TOXORHYNCHITES RUTILUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CULICIDAE; FOOD CHAIN; MISSOURI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 84885935116     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2674-z     Document Type: Article

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