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ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 54, Issue -, Pages 37-56Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.54.110807.090611
Keywords
asymmetrical competition; community ecology; interspecific competition; predation; processing chain commensalism; vector ecology
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R15 AI075306, R15 AI075306-01] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [R15AI075306] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Biotic interactions involving mosquito larvae ire context dependent, with effects of interactions on populations altered by ecological conditions. Relative impacts of competition and predation change across a gradient of habitat size and permanence. Asymmetrical competition is common and ecological context changes competitive advantage, potentially facilitating landscape-level coexistence of competitors. Predator effects oil mosquito populations sometimes depend oil habitat structure and on emergent effects of multiple predators, particularly interference among predators. Nonlethal effects of predators oil mosquito oviposition, foraging, and life history are common, and their consequences for populations and for mosquito-borne disease are poorly understood. Context-dependent beneficial effects of detritus shredders on mosquitoes Occur in container habitats, hut these interactions appear to involve more than simple resource modification by shredders. Investigations of context-dependent interactions among mosquito larvae will yield greater understanding of mosquito population dynamics and provide useful model systems for testing theories of context dependence ill communities.
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