Host dynamics determine responses to disease: Additive vs. compensatory mortality in a grasshopper-pathogen system

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2579-2588

  Kistner, Erica J ^a,b   Belovsky, Gary E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive mortality; Camnula pellucida; Compensatory mortality; Density dependence; Disease ecology; Entomopathogen; Entomophaga grylli; Grasshopper; Host pathogen interaction

Indexed keywords

ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FUNGAL DISEASE; GRASSHOPPER; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL;

CAMNULA PELLUCIDA; ENTOMOPHAGA GRYLLI;

EID: 84907222739     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0969.1     Document Type: Article

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