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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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population dynamic constructs, shows how the presence of refuges from parasitoid attack can .... Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5.
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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 ...
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.
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.
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Part Two of the book stresses the developmental and ecological ... ever, is that specific studies are not directly associated ... Larger fitness advantages.
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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 ...
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