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How quality of host plant affects a predator-prey interaction in biological control
(1995)
In cases of successful biological control the pest population is maintained at low densities by a natural enemy, but the mechanisms by which the predator or parasitoid manages to control the pest are often unknown. This ...
Regulation of an Insect Population Under Biological-Control
(1995-01)
California red scale is suppressed to very low densities by the parasitoid Aphytis melinus. The system also appears stable. We report on an experimental test of the hypothesis that stability is caused by a refuge for scale. ...
Refuge dynamics and metapopulation dynamics: An experimental test
(1996-03)
Red scale, an insect pest of citrus, is under control by the parasitoid Aphytis melinus in many areas, and in our study area the interaction appears dynamically stable. The bark on the interior branches and trunk of trees ...
Estimation of Temporal Variability in Populations
(1995-10)
A common measure of the temporal variability of a population is the standard deviation of the logarithms of successive estimated population sizes, In(D-t). This measure overestimates true temporal variability (the standard ...
Prey Exchange Rates and the Impact of Predators on Prey Populations in Streams
(1990)
We present four lines of evidence that the magnitude of prey exchange (=immigration/emigration) among substrate patches has an overwhelming influence on the perceived effects of predators on prey populations. (1) An extensive ...
Patch Dynamics of a Phytophagous Mite Population Effect of Number of Subpopulations
(1991)
I conducted a field test of the hypothesis that the dynamics of a predator-prey interaction should be affected by the number of interacting subpopulations within an assemblage. I used a "successful" biological control ...