Research article2013Peer reviewed
Apparent competition leaves no detectable imprint on patterns of community composition: observations from a natural experiment
Kaartinen, Riikka; Roslin, Tomas
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
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