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Nonhost diversity and density reduce the strength of parasitoid-host interactions

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Kehoe R., Frago E., Barten C., Jecker F., van Veen F., Sanders D.
2016

The presence of nonprey or nonhosts is known to reduce the strength of consumer¿ resource interactions by increasing the consumer's effort needed to find its resource. These interference effects can have a stabilizing effect on consumer¿resource dynamics, but have also been invoked to explain parasitoid extinctions. To understand how nonhosts affect parasitoids, we manipulated the density and ...

Ecologie animale; Ravageurs des plantes

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