Abstract
A stable pest equilibrium is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for control: satisfactory control in model systems is compatible with both local extinction of the pest and polyphagy in the natural enemy. Only one of 9 real examples of successful control is convincingly a stable interaction; the remainder show either strong evidence for instability and local extinction of the pest or are consistent with this interpretation. Two strategies by which a natural enemy may control a pest in a nonequilibrium state, termed here 'lying-in-wait' and 'search-and-destroy,' are distinguished.-from Authors
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 344-366 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | American Naturalist |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1985 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics