Apparent competition drives community-wide parasitism rates and changes in host abundance across ecosystem boundaries

Species sharing a common enemy such as a parasitoid or predator can indirectly affect one another. Here, Frost et al. use quantitative food-web data from communities of caterpillar hosts to show experimentally that apparent competition is important in predicting food-web structure across habitats.

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Main Authors: Carol M. Frost, Guadalupe Peralta, Tatyana A. Rand, Raphael K. Didham, Arvind Varsani, Jason M. Tylianakis
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/b723870c4d144c36bbcfc0e7ee4d18e9
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