Apparent competition drives community-wide parasitism rates and changes in host abundance across ecosystem boundaries
Carol M. Frost, Guadalupe Peralta, Tatyana A. Rand and 3 more
Nature Communications · 2016
doi:10.1038/ncomms12644 (opens in a new tab)
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Abstract
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.
Abstract licence: CC BY-NC-ND
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