Landscape and community attributes as the major drivers of herbivore parasitism in NW Argentina

MONMANY, A. CAROLINA; AIDE, T. MITCHELL

Cardiff, Wales.

Workshop; IX European Workshop on Insect Parasitoids. University of Cardiff, Wales; 2006

University of Cardiff

Herbivore parasitism may be altered by variables at different scales. We tested the hypothesis that small scale variables influence parasitism more than variables at larger scales. We collected and identified plants, herbivores and parasitoids, and estimated parasitism in forest fragments and continuous forests along a precipitation gradient in Northwest Argentina. Large-scale variables did not affect parasitism, while intermediate- and small-scale variables affected parasitism.