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Intraguild predation in biological control: consideration of multiple resource species

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Theoretical models of intraguild predation (IGP) predict that IGP decreases the effectiveness of biological control while many empirical studies do not agree with this prediction. In this study, I discuss the importance of explicit consideration of multiple resource species that has been neglected in most theoretical IGP models. In the previous models of IGP, a single resource species represented the pest species. However, there are multiple resource species (e.g., multiple pest species or aggregates of pest and non-pest species) in real systems. This study shows that models with multiple resource species can predict a variety of outcomes including those consistent with the empirical observations. The explicit consideration of resource species is useful for the future development of theories in biological control.

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    Toshinori Okuyama

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Okuyama, T. Intraguild predation in biological control: consideration of multiple resource species. BioControl 54, 3–7 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-008-9154-0

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