Complementarity and redundancy of interactions enhance attack rates and spatial stability in host-parasitoid food webs

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1888-1896

  Peralta, Guadalupe ^a   Frost, Carol M ^a   Rand, Tatyana A ^b   Didham, Raphael K ^c,d   Tylianakis, Jason M ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b USDA ARS Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem Functioning; Food Web Structure; Insurance Hypothesis; Niche Partitioning; Parasitism; Phylogenetic Species Variability; Spatial Variability; Temporal Variability

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD WEB; HERBIVORE; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; NICHE PARTITIONING; PHYLOGENETICS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATE FOREST; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PARASITISM; PREDATOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOOD CHAIN; HERBIVORY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; PARASITOLOGY; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE;

ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; HERBIVORY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

EID: 84904366537     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1569.1     Document Type: Article

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