Centre for Population Biology and Department of Biology, Imperial College at Sifwood. Park, Ascot, Berks ... expected life-span of hosts harbouring both competitors was signiï¬cantly shorter than hosts infected with ... dynamics ofcommunities.
Table 1 Effects of resistance cost to Bt toxin on the dominance of the fitness advantage conferred by the resistance (R) allele in toxic fields, and change in R ...
standing that if the parasitoid were to be omitted from the system, then the host would be regulated by other density dependent forces usually at higher densities ...
Jan 31, 2003 - count is made and sporeload will asymptote. If transmissibility is very high, then hosts will perish before the standard counting date. (e.g., see ...
pillars will be the new hosts for the parasitoid in the generation to .... pressure on the parasitoid to invest in entering nests .... Figure 4 (and simulations not pre-.
Jan 31, 2003 - American Naturalist is published by The University of Chicago Press. Please contact the ... http://www.jstor.org/journals/ucpress.html. American ...
population dynamic constructs, shows how the presence of refuges from parasitoid attack can .... Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5.
Jan 31, 2003 - Future studies should take account for instance of changes in the density of ant nests and the .... or two specific plants, and hatch about 1 week after being laid. Young ...... eggs per plant (SD = 24.4, n=50 plants). Due to.
Jan 31, 2003 - Third, the developmental biology of one species may be such that it is more fit when ... NOTES AND COMMENTS. 309 models in which the ...
IDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697 USA ... We compiled life tables for 78 holometabolous herbivorous insect species to quantify ... agous insects; population dynamics; predators.
Within each of two patches in the system, the population is divided into three age-classes: juveniles (0 ... The matrix A takes the form: O F (1 - m2) O F1 (1 - mi2) ...
Pest exploitation and success in biological control. Table 4.1. (cont.) w ww ..... bound to be poor descriptors on their own, due to the biological complexity of ...
Possible examples in- tween microbes and animals for a ... one of the most poorly tition include interactions between tissues of their hosts, and agents of.
Jan 31, 2003 - 1989) have examined the dynamics of multi- species ..... Steady-state assumptions are commonly used in the study of enzyme kinetics ..... or complex structures of the parasite population (Hochberg 1989; Hochberg et al.
Sep 3, 2012 - This Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance. ... Genomics and Computational Biology Graduate Program, ... life-span. ... Adopting a quantitative framework, such as adaptive dynamics [5],.
Mar 13, 2008 - substantial contributions to total production) and low diversity ..... 0.3 g l21; NaCl, 0.05 g l21; glycerol, 1 g l21, proteose peptone number 2, ...
Part Two of the book stresses the developmental and ecological ... ever, is that specific studies are not directly associated ... Larger fitness advantages.
Aug 19, 2008 - Background: Recent work on the complexity of life highlights the roles played by .... explicitly consider dynamics, such as group founding,.
Mar 9, 2009 - evolutionary dynamics of an interaction across the selec- tion mosaic ... tests of its impact on coevolutionary dynamics in selection ..... parasite virulence and host life-history traits. ... Journal of Theoretical Biology 217:369â38
Pages 81-96 in: Evolutionary biology of host-parasite ... combination of local dynamics and regional movement, and (3) geographic scales, .... is aggravated by parasites, then the life-style of what are potentially the most Type 2 virulent ...
Aug 9, 2002 - flip-side of the tragedy of the commons â COLLECTIVE. ACTION â is a common force in ... temptation of 'free-loading', or giving too little, as the.
