Apparent competition between parasitoids mediated by a shared hyperparasitoid
Cocoons of the specialist parasitoid Cotesia melitaearum, which attacks the Glanville fritillary butterfly in the Åland islands of SW Finland, are parasitized by the generalist hyperparasitoid Gelis agilis. We added experimentally to the system a second host species for G. agilis, C. glomerata, with...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Ecology letters 2000-03, Vol.3 (2), p.82-84 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Cocoons of the specialist parasitoid Cotesia melitaearum, which attacks the Glanville fritillary butterfly in the Åland islands of SW Finland, are parasitized by the generalist hyperparasitoid Gelis agilis. We added experimentally to the system a second host species for G. agilis, C. glomerata, with which C. melitaearum does not compete for resources. After the one‐time addition of the second parasitoid the natural populations of C. melitaearum declined in the treatment, as predicted by the apparent competition theory. |
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ISSN: | 1461-023X 1461-0248 |
DOI: | 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2000.00123.x |