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Commensalism or competition: how are the larval inhabitats found in Sarracenia purpurea pitcher leaves interacting?

dc.contributor.authorWolschleger, Trista L.en_US
dc.coverage.spatialWaldron Fenen_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-06-14T23:06:26Z
dc.date.available2007-06-14T23:06:26Z
dc.date.issued1999en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/54860
dc.description.abstractThe composition and abundance of species in a community can be largely affected by both interspecific and intraspecific interactions. Three dipteran species, Wyeomyia smithii (Culicidae), Metriocnemus knabi (Chironomidae), and Blaesoxipha fletcheri (Sarcophagidae), inhabit the pitcher fluid of the purple pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea. These larvae constitute a simplified community that can elucidae interactions among and between trophic levels. The frequency and density of these three species along with the types of associations that occur amongst them were surveyed in a natural population in Emmet County, MI. Wyeomyia smithii was found to be the most prevalent of the three species sampled (63%). Many different associations between the three species were found living in the pitcher plant leaves, with the association between Metriocnemus knabi and Wyeomyia smithii the most common of those sampled (36%) frequency. When Metriocnemus knabi and Wyeomyia smithii occurred together, decreased size of Metriocnemus knabi seemed to give the implication that interspecific competition may be taking place. Intraspecific competition amongst individuals of Wyeomyia smithii seemed to exist as well. Reducing the level of competition may be a driving force in the life strategies of these organisms.en_US
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dc.relation.haspartGraphen_US
dc.relation.haspartTable of Numbersen_US
dc.subjectGeneral Ecologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationFen-Northernen_US
dc.subject.otherINVERTEBRATESen_US
dc.subject.otherINSECTSen_US
dc.subject.otherVASCULARen_US
dc.subject.otherPLANTSen_US
dc.subject.otherDIPTERAen_US
dc.subject.otherSARCOPHAGIDAEen_US
dc.subject.otherCULICIDAEen_US
dc.subject.otherCHIRONOMIDAEen_US
dc.subject.otherWETLANDSen_US
dc.subject.otherPEATLANDSen_US
dc.subject.otherDENSITYen_US
dc.titleCommensalism or competition: how are the larval inhabitats found in Sarracenia purpurea pitcher leaves interacting?en_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelNatural Resource and Environmenten_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelScienceen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumBiological Station, University of Michiganen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arboren_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/54860/1/3301.pdfen_US
dc.description.filedescriptionDescription of 3301.pdf : Access restricted to on-site users at the U-M Biological Station.en_US
dc.owningcollnameBiological Station, University of Michigan (UMBS)


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