Trophic interactions and population structure of the large blue Maculinea nausithous and its specialist parasitoid [Elektronische Ressource] / von Christian Anton

1 Trophic interactions in parasitic large blues Trophic interactions and population structure of the large blue Maculinea nausithous and its specialist parasitoid Dissertation (kumulativ) zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.) vorgelegt der Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät I der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg von Herrn Christian Anton geb. am 27.09.1973 in Freudenberg (Westfalen) Gutachter: 1. PD Dr. habil. J. Settele (Halle) 2. Prof. Dr. R.F.A. Moritz (Halle) 3. Prof. Dr. Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter (Bayreuth) Halle (Saale), Datum der Verteidigung: 20.09.2007 urn:nbn:de:gbv:3-000012438[http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=nbn%3Ade%3Agbv%3A3-000012438] Introduction Contents 1. Introduction (3-16) 1.1 Trophic interactions in large blues 1.2 Species interactions in space 1.3 Population structure and gene flow 1.4 Butterfly mimics of ants: Ecology of Maculinea large blues 1.5 Specialists attack specialists: Ecology of Neotypus and Ichneumon parasitoids 1.6 Structure of this thesis 1.7 References 2. Myrmica host ants limit the density of the large blue Maculinea nausithous (17-18) 3. No experimental evidence for host ant related oviposition in a parasitic butterfly (19-20) 4. Spatial patterns of parasitism in a larval parasitoid of the predatory dusky large blue Maculinea nausithous (21-22) 5.