Traits across trophic levels interact to influence parasitoid establishment in biological control releases.

ABSTRACT: A central goal in ecology is to predict what governs a species' ability to establish in a new environment. One mechanism driving establishment success is individual species' traits, but the role of trait combinations among interacting species across different trophic levels is less clear. Deliberate or accidental species additions to existing communities provide opportunities to study larger scale patterns of establishment success. Biological control introductions are especially valuable because they contain data on both the successfully established and unestablished species. Here, we used a recent dataset of importation biological control introductions to explore how life-history traits of 132 parasitoid species and their herbivorous hosts interact to affect parasitoid establishment. We f

SUBMITTER: Jarrett BJM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8928891 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature