Apparent competition leaves no detectable imprint on patterns of community composition: observations from a natural experiment

Sammanfattning

4. Overall, this case study fails to add evidence to previous suggestions that apparent competition may constitute a major force in structuring natural communities. However, it suggests that dynamics should not be inferred from static food web structure alone, but rather that predictions based on structure should be verified by empirical observations of realised population dynamics.

Nyckelord

Abundance; apparent mutualism; herbivore; indirect interaction; parasitism rate; parasitoid; quantitative food web

Publicerad i

Ecological Entomology
2013, volym: 38, nummer: 5, sidor: 522-530
Utgivare: WILEY-BLACKWELL

SLU författare

• Kaartinen, Riikka

  • Helsingin yliopisto

• Roslin, Tomas

  • Helsingin yliopisto

UKÄ forskningsämne

Ekologi

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12048

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/54694