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Chemical Ecology of Insects

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At some point during their lifetime, individuals of most insects are probably involved in competition for an essential resource, be it for food, mating territories, egg-laying sites, or refugia. Should the density of competing individuals exceed the carrying capacity of a unit of resource, the result may be detrimental to fitness. Therefore, selection should favor avoidance of overcrowding. In some species, however, too low a density of individuals on a unit of resource may have equally detrimental consequences to fitness. Here, selection should favor some degree of aggregation, short of overcrowding. Thus, we may consider the concept of an optimal density range of individuals per unit of resource as valid (Peters and Barbosa, 1977; Prokopy, 1981a).

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Prokopy, R.J., Roitberg, B.D., Averill, A.L. (1984). Resource Partitioning. In: Bell, W.J., Cardé, R.T. (eds) Chemical Ecology of Insects. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3368-3_11

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