Parasitism rate, parasitoid community composition and host specificity on exposed and semi-concealed caterpillars from a tropical rainforest

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/13:43885529

Result on the web

<a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-013-2619-6" target="_blank" >http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-013-2619-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-013-2619-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00442-013-2619-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Parasitism rate, parasitoid community composition and host specificity on exposed and semi-concealed caterpillars from a tropical rainforest

Original language description

The processes maintaining the enormous diversity of herbivore?parasitoid food webs depend on parasitism rate and parasitoid host specificity. We document parasitism rate and host specificity in a highly diverse caterpillar-parasitoid food web encompassing 266 species of lepidopteran hosts and 172 species of hymenopteran or dipteran parasitoids from a lowland tropical forest in Papua New Guinea. We found that semi-concealed hosts (leaf rollers and leaf tiers) represented 84 % of all caterpillars, suffered a higher parasitism rate than exposed caterpillars (12 vs. 5 %) and their parasitoids were also more host specific. Parasitoid host specificity was highest in Braconidae, lower in Diptera: Tachinidae, and, unexpectedly, the lowest in Ichneumonidae. Semi-concealed hosts and their parasitoids are the largest, yet understudied component of caterpillar?parasitoid food webs.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Oecologia

ISSN

0029-8549

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

173

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

521-532

UT code for WoS article

000325028500018

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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