The ecology of hyperparasitoids

EH Poelman, A Cusumano… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Hyperparasitoids are some of the most diverse members of insect food webs. True
hyperparasitoids parasitize the larvae of other parasitoids, reaching these larvae with their …

Frontiers in metapopulation biology: the legacy of Ilkka Hanski

O Ovaskainen, M Saastamoinen - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
This review of metapopulation biology has a special focus on Professor Ilkka Hanski's (1953–
2016) research. Hanski made seminal contributions to both empirical and theoretical …

The plant as a habitat for entomophagous insects

L Kaiser, P Ode, S van Nouhuys, PA Calatayud… - Advances in Botanical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Populations of herbivorous insects are naturally consumed by other predacious or predatory
insect species. These entomophagous insects are thus plant-dwelling organisms that use …

The microbiome of the Melitaea cinxia butterfly shows marked variation but is only little explained by the traits of the butterfly or its host plant

G Minard, G Tikhonov, O Ovaskainen… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding of the ecological factors that shape intraspecific variation of insect microbiota
in natural populations is relatively poor. In Lepidopteran caterpillars, microbiota is assumed …

Host‐plant availability drives the spatiotemporal dynamics of interacting metapopulations across a fragmented landscape

ØH Opedal, O Ovaskainen, M Saastamoinen… - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The dynamics of ecological communities depend partly on species interactions within and
among trophic levels. Experimental work has demonstrated the impact of species …

Inferring dispersal across a fragmented landscape using reconstructed families in the Glanville fritillary butterfly

T Fountain, A Husby, E Nonaka… - Evolutionary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Dispersal is important for determining both species ecological processes, such as
population viability, and its evolutionary processes, like gene flow and local adaptation. Yet …

Complex plant quality—microbiota–population interactions modulate the response of a specialist herbivore to the defence of its host plant

G Minard, A Kahilainen, A Biere, H Pakkanen… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Many specialist herbivores have evolved strategies to cope with plant defences, with gut
microbiota potentially participating to such adaptations. In this study, we assessed whether …

Geographical variation in parasitoid communities and the cause of enemy-free space in a range-expanding myrmecophilous lycaenid butterfly

Y Nakabayashi, I Ohshima - Biological Journal of the Linnean …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Range expansions of host species are likely to modify host–parasitoid interactions.
Observational studies have indicated that host species in recently colonized areas are less …

The gut bacterial community affects immunity but not metabolism in a specialist herbivorous butterfly

A Duplouy, G Minard… - Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plant tissues often lack essential nutritive elements and may contain a range of secondary
toxic compounds. As nutritional imbalance in food intake may affect the performances of …

Populations and communities

KD Sunderland, W Powell, WOC Symondson… - Jervis's Insects as …, 2023 - Springer
In nature, any particular terrestrial habitat contains animal, plant, fungi, and microbe species
that exist together in both time and space. Many of these species will interact with each …