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The Relative Importance of Host Plants, Natural Enemies and Ants in the Evolution of Life-History Characters in Aphids

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Vertical Food Web Interactions

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 130))

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Many aphid species show tremendous fluctuations in numbers both within and between habitats or successive years (Redfearn and Pimm 1988). Their population dynamics seem mainly to be a consequence of exploiting resources that are highly variable in space and time. Environmental variability includes changes in host-plant quality, weather conditions, relationship to ants, and predator or parasitoid pressure. However, to what extent these factors contribute to the selection of life-history traits such as size at birth, length of survival and number of offspring, or to behavioural patterns, is uncertain (Morris 1992). Although behaviour and life history can be studied independently, much behaviour is directly linked to life-history characters (e.g. allocation processes, survival) and therefore should be included in any analysis of life-history strategies in variable environments.

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Stadler, B. (1997). The Relative Importance of Host Plants, Natural Enemies and Ants in the Evolution of Life-History Characters in Aphids. In: Dettner, K., Bauer, G., Völkl, W. (eds) Vertical Food Web Interactions. Ecological Studies, vol 130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60725-7_14

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