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1. | The effects of larval rearing density and species relative proportions on life-history parameters of two necrophagous Diptera,Hemipyrellia ligurriens (Wiedemann) (Calliphoridae) andBoettcherisca formosensis Kirner and Lopes (Sarcophagidae), were investigated in mixed cultures. Larval rearing density had a significant effect on larval to adult survivorship, duration of immature development, adult size and relative performance (measured by the composite index of performance,r′) of both species. However, species relative proportions affected adult size of both flies and the duration of immature development ofB. formosensis only. |
2. | B. formosensis had a higher survivorship thanH. ligurriens in all mixed cultures and showed a similar survivorship pattern to that in pure cultures. By contrast, survivorship ofH. ligurriens was lower in mixed than in pure cultures. |
3. | H. ligurriens adults reared from mixed cultures were smaller than those from pure cultures of comparable density, butB. formosensis adults from pure and mixed cultures were of similar size. |
4. | The results suggest that competition betweenB. formosensis andH. ligurriens larvae was asymmetric and the former was the superior competior. |
5. | At low larval densities in mixed cultures, the presence ofH. ligurriens enhanced the performance (as measured byr′) ofB. formosensis, a consequence of suspected interspecific facilitation of larval growth. |
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Takaya Ikemoto 《Researches on Population Ecology》1978,19(2):237-249
Summary The spatial distribution patterns of the population ofAnopheles sinensis larvae were studied in the rice field area in the suburb of Urawa city in Japan, during the summer seasons in 1973 and 1974.
The distribution pattern of the larval population within the field, analysed by the m−m regression method, indicated that
the basic component of larval distribution was not a group of individuals but a single individual and such components were
distributed contagiously over the field. This basic pattern did not change significantly according to developmental stage,
census date or field. Therefore, we could describe the distribution pattern of the population in a rice field by the single
linear regression, x=0.021+1.339x(r2−0.912).
Also, the relation for the whole population in the field area including the five fields could be shown by the linear regression,
x=0.049+1.749x(r2−0.959). The value of α remained to be nearly equal to zero, but the value of β became larger than the value for the single-field
relation. Such a change in distribution pattern seemed to reflect the greater heterogeneity in conditions among the fields
than within individual field.
Using the information on the distribution patterns mentioned above, some considerations were given on the sampling plans for
mosquito larvae, including samplesize determination and application of sequential methods to estimate population size as well
as to classify population level. 相似文献
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Summary Effects of starvation on the suryival period and the respiratory rate in adults of a wolf spider,Pardosa astrigera (L. Koch), were investigated. The spiders used were divided into four groups: well-fed, starved and two limited food groups; in the
latter two, each spider was supplied with one leafhopper every second or third day. Adult males and females ofP. astrigera could survive for a long time; 28.8±2.7 days and 54.4±18.9 days, respectively, without any food. The longevities shown here
were 73.8% for males and 78.6% for females of those of well-fed spiders, indicating thatP. astrigera adults have a strong tolerance to starvation. The respiratory rate of well-fed adults showed no tendency to increase or decrease
with their aging; the mean respiratory rates were 4.86×10−4 mg CO2/mg f.w. (fresh body weight)/hr for males and 3.80×10−4 mg CO2/mg f.w./hr for females. The respiratory rates of starved spiders increased during the first two days of starvation but decreased
markedly from the third to the twelfth day, and thereafter retained an almost constant level for each sex. The mean respiratory
rates after the twelfth day of starvation were 2.49×10−4 mg CO2/mg f.w./hr for males and 2.76×10−4 mg CO2/mg f.w./hr for females; these values were respectively 48.4% and 63.0% of those prior to starvation. The fresh body weight
of starved spiders decreased linearly with time but the rate was small. The respiratory rates of the limited food groups tended
to decline with time and thereby their weight losses were minimized. The decrease in the respiratory rate under starvation
was considered not to be due to spider exhaustion or senescence but due to an intrinsic change in behaviour and/or metabolism,
because when the spiders were supplied with ample food for five days after starvation, the respiratory rate and the body weight
rapidly recovered to near the levels prior to starvation. It is suggested that starved spiders use a higher ratio of fat as
catabolic substrate than normally fed or satiated ones. Feeding strategies of poikilo-therm predators are discussed.
This work was partially supported by the Nippon Life Insurance Foundation Research Fund and Grant-in-Aid (No. 56480039) from
the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan. 相似文献
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Summary Experiments are described showing the long-term dynamics of two species of bruchid beetles (Callosobruchus chinensis andC. maculatus) in arenas in which the resource of 50 black-eyed beans is divided between 5, 10 or 50 ‘patches’. Both species of adult beetles
exhibit clumped distributions between patches. Within a patch there is a tendency for a density dependent reduction in (1)
eggs laid per female, (2) the proportion of eggs hatching per bean (C. chinensis only) and (3) larval survival which is strongly overcompensating (particularly inC. maculatus). A discrete generation model is used as a framework to draw these results together and show how the different factors affecting
natality and mortality can influence the population dynamics. Finally, the importance of the resource renewal interval in
influencing the period of the population cycles is discussed. 相似文献
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Eizi Kuno 《Researches on Population Ecology》1991,33(1):33-39
Summary In some situations the logistic equation in the usual expression, dN/dt=r(1−N/K)N, exhibits properties that are biologically unrealistic. For example, whenr≦0 the population can no longer show any normal, negative response in per-capita growth rate to increasing density. Also,
when the equation is employed in the Volterra's competition model, a familiar but incredible conclusion is derived which says
that the outcome of competition is entirely independent of the reproductive potentialr of each species. It is shown that all such strange properties are mere artifacts arising peculiarly in thisr-K model from its misleading implicit supposition thatK could be independent ofr, and they can be readily removed by alternative use of a plainer, classical form of the model, dN/dt=(r−hN)N. 相似文献
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Kenji Fujisaki 《Researches on Population Ecology》1986,28(2):219-230
Summary Responses to nymphal density in the determination of wing form were compared between the offspring from brachypter x brachypter
crosses and those from macropter x macropter crosses of the oriental chinch bug,Cavelerius saccharivorus.
In the offspring from crosses between macropters, there was a strong tendency for macropters to increase to a rather high
level with increasing nymphal density in both sexes. In contrast to this, in the offspring from crosses between brachypters,
the appearance rate of macropters attained a maximum value in moderately crowded conditions and conversely decreased to a
lower level in more crowded conditions in both sexes. Thus density response patterns concerning the determination of wing
form were quite different between the offspring from different crosses in the wing form, indicating that there is a genetic
basis underlying wing polymorphism in this species.
As for the body size of emerged adults, macropters tended to be larger than brachypters in the same crowded condition. Moreover,
the rate of decrease of body size with nymphal density was lower in the offspring from crosses between macropters than in
the offspring from crosses between brachypters. This indicated that the former offspring are more tolerant of nymphal crowding
than the latter. The difference in such a tolerance against nymphal crowding between the offspring from different crosses
was considered to be related to the difference in the appearance of macropters in the crowded conditions between them. 相似文献
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David Wool 《Researches on Population Ecology》1969,11(1):40-44
Summary The effect of larval age range on survival of twoTribolium castaneum strains in mixed cultures was studied in an experimental situation in which other selective forces were reduced to a minimum.
Increasing the difference in larval age setween the strains by one day resulted in a reduction of survival of the faster-developing
mutant strain, because more of its earlier pupae were cannibalized by the larvae. General aspects of the effects of pupal
cannibalism by larvae on the outcome of intra-specific competition (sensu lato) inTribolium are discussed. 相似文献
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Hidenori Ubukata 《Researches on Population Ecology》1984,26(2):285-301
Summary Females of an odonate species in which oviposition sites overlap with mating sites may adopt one or more of the following
strategies when they lay eggs except when they ‘trade’ mating for access to suitable oviposition sites or for services (guarding,
etc.) provided by males: (1) ovipositing at hidden places; (2) ovipositing at a time when males are neither patrolling nor
watching; (3) indicating non-receptivity by a behavioral display. The density of ovipositing females of the dragonfly,Cordulia aenea amurensis
Selys which was studied between 1970 and 1983 at a pond (H?rai-numa, Sapporo, Hokkaido) had a high negative correlation with the
distance from ‘entrance’ (a part of shore at which the arrival of most adults seems to have occurred). On the other hand,
oviposition was rarely observed at a sector being distant from entrance in spite of the inference that larval survivorship
was probably high at this sector. Most females oviposited among emergent vegetation in which approach of males to them was
difficult, and they scarcely traveled across the open water in search of oviposition sites. Therefore, most females of the
population studied were considered to adopt the first strategy. The second and third strategy were not adopted by the population
studied. Finally, the influences of some environmental factors and traits possessed by a species on the adoption of these
tactics or on the execution of the ‘trades’ were discussed.
Ecological studies ofCordulia aenea amurensis
Selys, VII.
This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Special Project Research on Biological Aspects of Optimal Strategy and
Social Structure from the Japan Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. 相似文献
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Kazuhiko Kosuda 《Researches on Population Ecology》1981,23(2):379-386
Summary Competition experiments between a lac+ prototroph and a lac− auxotroph ofEscherichia coli were conducted by serial transfer procedure on four levels of sugar concentration. Changes of the relative frequencies of
both genotypes were followed and the relative fitness was estimated. Fitness was proved to be density-dependent. No explicit
dependence of fitness upon genotype frequencies could be detected by the simple method ofKosuda (1981). 相似文献
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Summary We performed multiple-generation competition experiments betweenCallosobruchus analis andC. phaseoli with different bean sizes. In each system, we supplied 5 g of mung beans (Vigna radiata) every 10 days. We examined three types of bean conditions: 5 g of large beans, 5 g of small beans, and a mixture of 2.5
g of large and small beans. In small bean condition,C. analis dominatedC. phaseoli in all three replicates andC. phaseoli was extinct by the 260th day. On the contrary,C. phaseoli overcameC. analis within 250 days in large beans in all three replicates. In mixed beans condition the two bruchid species coexisted more than
500 days in two out of the three replicates. Even in the exceptional case, both species coexisted for 460 days. These results
were examined in the light of the predictions from short-term larval competition experiments and a game theoretical model
by Smith and Lessells (1985). The density and frequency dependent results during larval competition inside a bean was concluded
to be a main factor to produce the above long-term competition results. 相似文献
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J. N. Ayertey 《Researches on Population Ecology》1980,22(1):101-116
Summary This paper describes a series of experiments conducted to determine whySitophilus zeamais
Mots. andSitotroga cerealella (Oliv.) could not survive together in maize cultures in the laboratory. The effect ofS. zeamais on different developmental stages ofS. cerealella was investigated. The presence of adultS. zeamais slightly affected moth copulation, egg laying and moth eggs in a mixed culture, but large numbers of developing moths inside
maize grains were killed by the adult weevil through feeding on the grains. The major cause of elimination ofS. cerealella byS. zeamais from mixed cultures was therefore found to be damage to the immature moths in grain and such moth mortality increased as
the developing moths became bigger in the grains. A weevil: grain ratio of approximately 1.4∶1 was found to be the critical
weevil density at which the moth disappeared from the mixed cultures. 相似文献
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Preference and performance linkage in aPhyllocolpa sawfly on the willow,Salix miyabeana, on Hokkaido
A leaf-folding sawfly in the genusPhyllocolpa (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) attackingSalix miyabeana (Salicaceae) was studied near Sapporo, Hokkaido, along the Ishikari River in 1993. Host plant individuals were young trees
4–7 years old which were growing rapidly, producing some long shoots with large leaves. On a gradient of shoot length classes
from 0–5 cm long to over 80 cm long, shoots were much more abundant in the shorter shoot length classes. However, attacks
by ovipositing females increased as shoot length increase from 0 attacks on the shortest shoots to 5.17 attacks per shoot
on the longest shoots. The frequency of attack per leaf increased from 0 to 0.13 over the same range of shoot lengths. This
pattern of attack resulted in a high frequency of larval establishment in feeding sites, between 0.96 and 1.00, in all attacked
shoot length categories. However, probability of survival to a late instar larva increased with shoot length and corresponded
to the attack pattern, indicating a preference-performance linkage between female ovipositional decisions and larval survival.
The patterns found for thisPhyllocolpa species are similar for galling sawflies in North America and Europe, especially in the genusEuura, members of which make stem, bud and leaf midrib galls. Extending the pattern to aPhyllocolpa species broadens identification of pattern and ultimately the generality of the emerging theory on populations of galling
sawflies. 相似文献
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Ping-Man So 《Researches on Population Ecology》1991,33(2):229-243
Summary I sampledTetranychus urticae Koch (Acarina: Tetranychidae) regularly from four rose gardens in Kyoto and Nara Prefectures in 1988–1990. When mite density
was low,T. urticae showed an uneven vertical distribution, being more abundant in the lower third and absent from the upper third of the plants.
Mite density was less variable within than between plants, suggesting that a sampling plan which includes more leaves from
different plants rather than from different levels of a plant is favourable. Spatial distribution ofT. urticae was nonrandom and followed the negative binomial distribution. In addition, both the Taylor’s power law and the Iwao’s patchiness
regression described the distribution well. An empty-sample method for estimating mite density from the proportion of empty
sampling units was developed. Sampling plans for determining the sample size required to reach a predetermined precision level,
based on this method and by directly counting the mites, were designed. The counting method was more accurate than the empty-sample
method. However, when the time factor was taken into account, the latter was more favourable, because it was faster than the
former at a density range of 1.5–300 mites leaf−1, which was most commonly encountered in the field. 相似文献
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Athayde Tonhasca Jr. John C. Palumbo David N. Byrne 《Researches on Population Ecology》1994,36(2):181-186
Early season infestations of the sweet potato whitefly,Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius), on cantaloupes,Cucumis melo L., were determined by counts of the number of adults per leaf in fields near Yuma, Arizona. We used these data to develop
binomial sampling plans based on the relationship between mean densities of whiteflies per leaf,m, and proportion of leaves infested with more thanI whiteflies,P
I, according to the empirical model lnm=a′+b′ ln[−ln(1−P
I)]. The models were developed for the presence-absence approach (I=0) and for a cutoff value of three whiteflies per leaf (I=3). Four independent data sets were used to evaluate the models. Both methods yielded reliable predictions at low infestation
levels, but some of the higherm values were overestimated. As the tentative economic threshold forB. tabaci is three adults per leaf, which corresponds to lowP
I values, results of the binomial sampling were satisfactory for pest management purposes. 相似文献
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Masahiro Nakaoka 《Researches on Population Ecology》1993,35(2):199-213
Summary Long-term variation in recruitment was estimated by constructing projection matrices for a marine bivalve,Yoldia notabilis, at two stations in Otsuchi Bay, northeastern Japan, and the effects of its variation on population dynamics were examined
using a simple matrix model. The matrix model was developed from the Leslie matrix, in which the population growth rate λ
was expressed as a function of recruitment rater
0. The equilibrium recruitment rater
s, or the recruitment rate required to maintain population at constant size (λ=1), was expressed by the reciprocal of the reproductive
value of a newly recruited individual. The estimates ofr
s for the field population were lower at the shallower station than at the deeper station, reflecting higher survivorship and
fecundity. Past recruitment rate estimated both by the field samplings for 3 years and by the back-calculation from the current
age structure for over 10 years showed large yearly variation, ranging between 0 and 58.6×10−4. The estimates were larger thanr
s, and hence, large enough to increase population size (λ>1) only in approximately one-third of the estimated years. This suggests
that the population has been maintained by occasional successful recruitment occurring once every few years. 相似文献
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Katsumi Togashi 《Researches on Population Ecology》1991,33(2):245-256
Summary To understand the mechanism of spread of pine wilt disease caused by the pinewood nematode,Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, which is vectored by a cerambycid,Monochamus alternatus, the spatial distribution of trees weakened by the nematode was examined within aPinus thunbergii stand from June to October for 4 years. The weakened trees were distributed in a clumped pattern in 1980 and 1981, at an
early stage of infestation. In many cases, they showed a double-clumped pattern. The degree of aggregation was higher in June
or July than after August. They were uniformly distributed in June or July 1982 and in June 1983 whereas they showed a double-clumped
pattern after August. The trees were frequently weakened in June or July when they were near the trees weakened during the
previous year. At quadrat sizes of more than 25 m2, spatial overlapping was pronounced between trees weakened during June–July of the current year and those weakened in the
previous year. The seasonal changes in spatial distribution of weakened trees were explained by the interaction amongM. alternatus, B. xylophilus andPinus trees. 相似文献
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Tock H. Chua 《Researches on Population Ecology》1992,34(2):285-292
Summary The effect of body size, as measured by the head width, of the femaleBactrocera sp. Malaysian A (kept separately in sexual pairs) on the demographic parameters was investigated in the laboratory under
ambient conditions of 28–30°C, 78–85% RH and natural photoperiod. Body size was shown to influence significantly all the demographic
parameters. The expectation of life of females at eclosion from pupae was respectively for head widths of 1.6, 1.8, 1.9, 2.0
and 2.1 mm: 76.2, 73.4, 73.8, 102.4 and 115.2 days. The mean number of eggs laid per female in its life time was respectively:
86.4±48.7, 181.8±56.1, 229.7±72.6, 364.3±69.4 and 477.5±109.3 which was significantly different from one another (F=3.73,P<0.05) especially the two smaller sizes from the two larger sizes. The regression line for total eggs laid (Y) against head width (X) wasY=785.2X−1208.7 (R
2=0.35,P<0.001). The net reproductive rate (R
0) was respectively 15.8, 34.0, 43.5, 66.9 and 88.8 eggs, while the intrinsic rate of increase (r) was respectivley 0.0435, 0.0538, 0.0670, 0.0665 and 0.0711. The results confirm that for mass rearing purposes, larger females
which produce more offspring are to be preferred. 相似文献
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Summary This paper theoretically analyses the relationship between surplus energy, which is available for either somatic growth or
reproduction, and body weight. From the data of metabolism and growth of the biwamasu,Oncorhynchus rhodurus, obtained by Miura et al., a Bernoulli's differential equation is induced to represent the relationship between body weight
and the sum of surplus energy and active metabolic rate. Solving this equation gives the amount of surplus energy,f(Wx), as follows:f(Wx) = (αW
x
1−γ
+β1−γ)1/(1−γ)−Wx, in which α, β and γ are constants andW
x is body weight at agex. The function is applied to ten fish populations and consequently it is found to be useful for a wider age range and a wider
variety of fishes than the conventional function. 相似文献
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Makoto Kato 《Researches on Population Ecology》1996,38(1):27-40
Population dynamics of a leafminer,Chromatomyia suikazurae (Agromyzidae, Diptera) and its parasitoid community were studied for ten years at seven natural populations along an altitudinal
gradient in Japan. This species which mines leaves of a forest shrub,Lonicera gracilipes (Caprifoliaceae), was attacked by 25 hymenopterous parasitoid species. Annually, the parasitoid community structure varied
less within a population than among populations. The seven parasitoid communities were clustered into three groups corresponding
to the altitudinal gradient: (a) lowland communities dominated by late-attacking, generalist pupal idiobiont eulophids and
with highest species diversity, (b) hillside communities dominated by an early-attacking, specialist larval-pupal koinobiont
braconid and (c) highland communities dominated by an early-attacking, generalist larval idiobiont eulophid. Annual changes
of the host larval densities among the local populations were largely synchronous rather than cyclic. Among these populations,
host density levels and mortality patterns greatly varied. By analyzing these inter-populational differences of host mortality
patterns, the following conclusions were drawn: (1) The host mortality patterns were determined by the host utilization patterns
of the locally dominant species. (2) The host pupal mortality but not larval mortality was related to species diversity but
not to species richness itself of each parasitoid community. (3) Density dependence was detected only in pupal mortality at
a lowland population dominated by late-attacking pupal parasitoids. These results suggest that interspecific interactions
of parasitoids add additive effects to host population dynamics dissimilarly among local populations with different parasitoid
communities. 相似文献
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Summary The functional response ofPseudogonatopus flavifemur E & H (Hym., Dryinidae) was investigated by offering hosts (brown planthopper) at densities ranging from 8 to 160 per cage.
The response curve was found to be sigmoid, i. e.Holling's (1959) Type III curve. In experiments involving 310 hosts per cage distributed unevenly in 5 densities (10, 20, 40, 80
and 160 per hill), and a different female parasite density each time (viz. 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 per cage), the behavioral response
was described well by the “random predator equation” ofRoyama (1971) andRoger (1972), which is a convex exponential curve. The area of discovery (a) decreased with an increase in female parasite density (P), and the relationship was described by the equation: loga=−1.0099−0.3638 logP. There was an apparent increase in handling time per host as the number of female parasites increased. Superparasitism, a
rare phenomenon under natural conditions, was often observed in the laboratory. The potential ofP. flavifemur as a biocontrol agent of the brown planthopper is discussed. 相似文献