Quantifies, for each pair of lower trophic level species, the potential for showing apparent competition with another species, mediated through the higher trophic level.
PAC(web)Returns a k x k matrix with entries d.ij, where k is the number of species in the lower trophic level and i and j are lower trophic level species. The matrix represents the effect of column species on row species. Diagonal entries are “apparent intraspecific competition”.
A host-parasitoid network (or alike), where the entries represent the sum of parasitoids emerging from the interactions between parasitoid and host (i.e. number of interactions * number of parasitoid individuals emerging from each host). Only if there is only one parasitoid per host this web will be the same as that used in all other calculations in this package!
Carsten F. Dormann carsten.dormann@biom.uni-freiburg.de
Calculates the potential for apparent competition (Holt 1977), following the formula given in Müller et al. (1999) and Morris et al. (2005). See also Morris et al. (2004) for an experimental test.
Carvalheiro, L.G., Biesmeijer, J.C., Benadi, G., Fründ, J., Stang, M., Bartomeus, I., Kaiser-Bunbury, C.N., Baude, M., Gomes, S.I.F., Merckx, V., Baldock, K.C.R., Bennett, A.T.D., Boada, R., Bommarco, R., Cartar, R., Chacoff, N., Dänhardt, J., Dicks, L. V., Dormann, C.F., Ekroos, J., Henson, K.S.E., Holzschuh, A., Junker, R.R., Lopezaraiza-Mikel, M., Memmott, J., Montero-Castaño, A., Nelson, I.L., Petanidou, T., Power, E.F., Rundlöf, M., Smith, H.G., Stout, J.C., Temitope, K., Tscharntke, T., Tscheulin, T., Vilà, M. & Kunin, W.E. 2014 The potential for indirect effects between co-flowering plants via shared pollinators depends on resource abundance, accessibility and relatedness. Ecology Letters 17, 1389--1399.
Holt, R. D. 1977 Predation, apparent competition and the structure of prey communities. Theoretical Population Biology 12, 197--229.
Morris, R. J., Lewis, O. T. and Godfray, H. C. J. 2004 Experimental evidence for apparent competition in a tropical forest food web. Nature 428, 310--313.
Morris, R. J., Lewis, O. T. and Godfray, H. C. J. 2005 Apparent competition and insect community structure: towards a spatial perspective. Annales Zoologica Fennici 42, 449--462.
Müller, C. B., Adriaanse, I. C. T., Belshaw, R. and Godfray, H. C. J. 1999 The structure of an aphid-parasitoid community. Journal of Animal Ecology 68, 346--370
data(Safariland)
PAC(Safariland)
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