New Zealand Journal of Ecology (2006) 30(1): 148- 149

©New Zealand Ecological Society

Body size and resource partitioning in ladybirds

Conference Abstract
A. F. G. Dixon  
  1. School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K.
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[First paragraph]
Resource utilisation is usually viewed in terms of food species size (Schoener, 1974) with each species in a predator guild adapted to exploit a particular-sized species of prey. Large species of predators exploit large species of prey and vice versa. That is, each species in a guild is able to displace other species from a particular portion of the resource space by virtue of it being better adapted to exploit that particular species of prey in that resource space.

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