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Plant-Mediated Interactions Between Herbivorous Insects

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Traditional arguments on species interactions have focused mainly on classification of the interaction into several different types, such as competition, predation, and mutualism, through negative or positive impact of one species on the fitness of another species (Pianka 1983). The classification largerly rests on an averaged effect of the first species change on size or growth rate of the population, or individual fitness, in terms of survivorhip and reproduction of the secong species. if these properties of interacting species change in time and space, an outcome of the interaction could change accrdingly. Commonly, impacts o the first species on the second species have the potential to change through changes in exogenous factors in local communities or endogenous factors in interacting species (Gilbert 1983; Thompson 1988a; Cushman and Whitham 1991; Singer and Parmesan 1993). Involved are population density and variability, and structure in terms of genotype or phenotype of interacting populations; environmental variables, and direct or indirect effects of another species on the interactions. for instance, populations density may substantially change the intensity of the interaction by means of the probability of encounter with the interacting species (Ohgushi 1992a). When the interacting species approaches a high population density, the pairwise interaction becomes more apparent. Conversely, the interaction becomes less apparent when the population declines to a low density.

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Ohgushi, T. (1997). Plant-Mediated Interactions Between Herbivorous Insects. In: Abe, T., Levin, S.A., Higashi, M. (eds) Biodiversity. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1906-4_8

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