Body sizes of hosts and parasitoids in individual feeding relationships

In a natural community of 49 species (12 species of aphids and 37 species of their parasitoids), body lengths of 2,151 parasitoid individuals were, to an excellent approximation, related to the body lengths of their individual aphid hosts by a power law with an exponent close to 3/4. Two alternative...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 2005-01, Vol.102 (3), p.684-689
Hauptverfasser:	Cohen, J.E, Jonsson, T, Muller, C.B, Godfray, H.C.J, Savage, V.M
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	allometry Animals Aphidoidea Aphids - parasitology Biological Sciences Body length Body Size Ecology Feeding Behavior Host-Parasite Interactions host-parasite relationships Hymenoptera Hyperparasites Hyperparasitoids Insect larvae insect pests Insects Larval development length mathematics and statistics Metabolism Models, Biological Mummies Natural sciences Naturvetenskap Parasite hosts Parasites Parasitoids Physical growth prediction Species
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