Can we predict indirect interactions from quantitative food webs? - an experimental approach



: Tack AJM, Gripenberg S, Roslin T

Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL

: 2011

 Journal of Animal Ecology

: JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

: J ANIM ECOL

: 80

: 1

: 108

: 118

: 11

: 0021-8790

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01744.x


6. Overall, this study is the first to experimentally demonstrate that herbivores with overlapping parasitoid communities may exhibit independent population dynamics - or even apparent mutualism. Hence, it proves the potential for versatile indirect interactions in nature, and suggests that the link between patterns in food web structure and realized population dynamics should be verified by rigorous experiments.


apparent competition, apparent mutualism, delayed density-dependent parasitism, density-dependent parasitism, indirect density-mediated interactions, indirect trait-mediated interactions, spatial scale, temporal scale



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