Abstract
The complexity of insect communities involves a large number of interacting species. Predators may often exploit a wide range of food sources, frequently acting as generalists, omnivores or intraguild predators. In addition to these kinds of interactions, natural communities also contain species with two types of reproductive strategy, known as semelparity and iteroparity. In this chapter, different mathematical models representing trophic interactions will be considered, assuming both types of life history, in the framework of insect population dynamics and biocontrol. The results show that among other factors the interaction strength of the species involved plays an important role in the determination of the food web dynamics.
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da Silveira Costa, M.I., Del Bianco Faria, L. (2014). Modeling Trophic Interactions in Insect Population Dynamics. In: Ferreira, C., Godoy, W. (eds) Ecological Modelling Applied to Entomology. Entomology in Focus, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06877-0_6
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