Superparasitism as an ESS: to reject or
✍
Nelly van der Hoeven; Lia Hemerik
📂
Article
📅
1990
🏛
Elsevier Science
🌐
English
⚖ 775 KB
A stochastic model is formulated to determine the optimal strategy for a solitary parasitoid which has discovered an already parasitized host. The model assumes that the parasitoid can count both the number of eggs already present in a host and the number of conspecifics searching in the same patch.