Niche modification and stability of competitive systems. II. Persistence of interspecific competitive systems with parasitoid wasps
Niche modification and stability of competitive systems. II. Persistence of interspecific competitive systems with parasitoid wasps
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竞争系统的利基修改和稳定性。
DOI:
10.1007/bf02515461
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发表时间:
1985
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通讯作者:
M. Shimada
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作者:
M. Shimada
Effects of niche shift in ecological time scale on the population dynamics of competing species were studied in the experimental populations of two parasitoid wasp species,Anisopteromalus calandraeandHeterospilus prosopidis(both are solitary parasites), on a host, the azuki bean weevil,Callosobruchus chinensis. Four resource conditions were set up with combination of kind of bean (azuki or black eye), and host distribution (uniform or clumped). In each resource condition, four developmental stages of hosts were provided as a resource spectrum for parasitoid wasps.Population dynamics of the two wasp populations were investigated in each resource condition in Multi-Generation Competitive Systems (MGCS), in which fresh hosts of four developmental stages were periodically introduced and were parasitized competitively by the two wasp species. Competitive coexistence of both wasps occurred in the azuki-clumped condition, where the peaks of the resource utilization curves separated in the two species; pupae inA. calandraeand the early or late fourth instar inH. prosopidis, A. calandraewas eliminated in the azuki-uniform condition andH. prosopidiswent extinct in two black eye conditions irrespective of host distributions. The degrees of overlap of the resource utilization patterns of the two wasp species during population dynamics were not significantly different among resource conditions irrespective of the results of coexistence or extinction. Even in the azuki-clumped condition, however, extinction ofA. calandraewas observed when resource partitioning could not be realized with only the late fourth instar larvae available to wasps. Further analytical experiments showed that parasitizing ability ofA. calandraeincreased with host density per bean with azuki beans, butA. calandraecould express higher parasitizing ability with black eye beans thanH. prosopidisirrespective of host density per bean.The flexibility in parasitizing ability byA. calandraefor various host stages under different resource conditions was thought to be the major factor in determining the competitive coexistence or the extinction of either species under different resource conditions. The present experiments also suggested that different second-best host stages between competitors could be a major contributing factor to competitive coexistence.