Resource partitioning of four sympatric bark beetles depending on swarming dates and tree species

Niche breadth and resource partitioning

Niche breadth and resource partitioning by four sympatric species of bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)

✍ T. D. Paine; M. C. Birch; P. Švihra 📂 Article 📅 1981 🏛 Springer-Verlag 🌐 English ⚖ 626 KB

Standing loblolly pines in southeastern North America are colonized by four sympatric species of bark beetles: Dendroctonus frontalis (Zimm.), Ips calligraphus (Germ.), I. grandicollis (Eichh.) and I. avulsus (Eichh.). The beetles compete for the limited amount of phloem tissue used as a site for re