Population density and diet type interactively affect individual growth of an omnivorous soil-dwelling insect (Anomala cuprea, Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

Density effects are a fundamental ecological question, but their impacts on the individual growth of insects are highly variable. Scarab larvae in soils often occur at high density, but density effects of their population are rarely reported. We examined how the density of the first instar larvae o...

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Main Authors: Tomonori Tsunoda, Jun-Ichirou Suzuki, Nobuhiro Kaneko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung 2023-12-01
Series:Soil Organisms
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Online Access:https://soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/article/view/335