Effects of plant availability on population size and dynamics of an insect community: diamondback moth and two of its parasitoids.

@article{Soufbaf2014EffectsOP,
  title={Effects of plant availability on population size and dynamics of an insect community: diamondback moth and two of its parasitoids.},
  author={Mahmoud Soufbaf and Yaghoub Fathipour and Javad Karimzadeh and Myron P. Zalucki},
  journal={Bulletin of entomological research},
  year={2014},
  volume={104 4},
  pages={
          418-31
        }
}
To understand the effect of plant availability/structure on the population size and dynamics of insects, a specialist herbivore in the presence of two of its parasitoids was studied in four replicated time-series experiments with high and low plant availabilities; under the latter condition, the herbivore suffered from some periods of resource limitation (starvation) and little plant-related structural refuges. Population dynamics of the parasitoid Cotesia vestalis was governed mainly by the… 
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