ANALYTICAL MODELS FOR LABORATORY POPULATIONS OF CALLOSOBRUCHUS-CHINENSIS AND CALLOSOBRUCHUS-MACULATUS (COLEOPTERA, BRUCHIDAE)
ANALYTICAL MODELS FOR LABORATORY POPULATIONS OF CALLOSOBRUCHUS-CHINENSIS AND CALLOSOBRUCHUS-MACULATUS (COLEOPTERA, BRUCHIDAE)
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DOI:
10.2307/4324
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
BELLOWS, TS
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作者:
BELLOWS, TS
Populations of C. chinensis and C. maculatus show density-dependent restrictions on growth when cultured with a limited food supply. These density-dependent processes may be grouped into 2 categories: those acting during the adult stage, which restrict the number of recruits to the larval stage, and those acting during the larval stage, which restrict the number of adults in the next generation. The processes were investigated by single generation experiments. Competition in the adult stage resulted in lower per capita fecundity and increased egg mortality. The processes acted in an overcompensatory manner in both species and were the cause of the observed overcompensation in the reproduction curves, more severe in C. maculatus than in C. chinensis. Competition in the larval stages was of the contest type in both species. The number of survivors reaches a plateau as the number of larval recruits increases, where the number of survivors was highest for C. chinensis than for C. maculatus. Analytical models for density dependence are used to describe the outcomes of competition in the larval and adult stages. These models are then used to develop single and 2 age-class models for population growth for each species. All the models for both species showed an oscillatory approach to a stable equilibrium; the models for C. maculatus were less stable than those for C. chinensis. The stability properties of the models are discussed in the light of the density dependence shown in adult and larval stages. These results are compared with results of long-term studies on laboratory population dynamics of these species from the literature and models for C. chinensis compare favorably with them. Published long-term studies of C. maculatus, however, generally showed more sustained cyclical behavior than indicated by the models developed here. The differences are attributed to different density-dependent responses in the adult and larval stages used by previous workers.