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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016-08-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12644 |