Predation resistance does not trade off with competitive ability in early-colonizing mosquitoes.

ABSTRACT: The tradeoff between colonization and competitive ability has been proposed as a mechanism for ecological succession, and this tradeoff has been demonstrated in multiple successional communities. The tradeoff between competitive ability and predation resistance is also a widely-described phenomenon; however, this tradeoff is not usually postulated as a cause of ecological succession. Early successional species that arrive before predator colonization could be either (1) less vulnerable to predation than their successors, by virtue of being poor competitors (direct competition-predation tradeoff); or (2) equally or more vulnerable to predation, because they normally colonize ahead of predators in succession and therefore are not evolutionarily adapted to avoid predators that they rarely enc

SUBMITTER: Murrell EG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3903811 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature