An experimental investigation of patterns of parasitism at three spatial scales in an aphid-parasitoid system (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae)

Title:

An experimental investigation of patterns of parasitism at three spatial scales in an aphid-parasitoid system (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae)

Creator:

Jarošík, Vojtěch and Lapchin, Laurent

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:f8206f63-a7fb-44fa-8973-92083a3c21db
uuid:f8206f63-a7fb-44fa-8973-92083a3c21db

Subject:

Aphidius colemani Viereck, Myzus persicae Sulzer, spatial density dependence, population regulation, biological control, and foraging behaviour

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

Density dependent host mortality in the interaction between the solitary endoparasitoid Aphidius colemani (Aphidiidae), and its host, the green peach aphid Myzus persicae, was examined on greenhouse peppers. The experimental approach attempted to eliminate spatial interdependence in the relationship between host density and host mortality by using different plants to measure parasitism at different spatial scales. Increasing host density at the plant scale caused a significant increase in the proportion of host mortality. However, at the shoot and leaf scale, increasing host density caused a significant decrease in host mortality. This may be one of the first experimental demonstrations of a switch from inverse to direct density dependence. The pattern is assumed to be a result of searching parasitoids using different cues at different spatial scales.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2001 Volume:98 | Number:3

Harvested from:

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Metadata only:

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