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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

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

Published in

Ecological Entomology
2013, volume: 38, number: 5, pages: 522-530
Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL

SLU Authors

• Kaartinen, Riikka

  • University of Helsinki

• Roslin, Tomas

  • University of Helsinki

UKÄ Subject classification

Ecology

Publication identifier

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

Permanent link to this page (URI)

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