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ArticleInsects2023

Density, Temperature, and Comingled Species Affect Fitness within Carrion Communities: Coexistence in

Patricia Okpara, Sherah VanLaerhoven

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Article in Insects, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Patricia OkparaDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Ave, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada.
Sherah VanLaerhovenDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Ave, Windsor, ON N9B 3P4, Canada.
University of Windsor · CA

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council RGPIN-2017-05837
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) interactions vary between competition and facilitation. Female blow flies engage in aggregated egg-laying, resulting in larval feeding masses differing in density and species composition. Numerous species are abundant within the same season, and some oviposit near or directly on eggs of other species, modifying their oviposition location choice depending on the presence or absence of other species. The ability to coexist on carrion, a temporary resource, was successfully attributed to resource, spatial, and temporal heterogeneity. Despite these broad categorizations, the specific mechanisms of coexistence within blow fly communities require further investigation. This study investigates variation in temperature and larval density as potential mechanisms of coexistence between two forensically important blow fly species:

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competitionfacilitationforensic entomologyheterospecific assemblagesmedico-legal entomologyspecies interactionssub-lethal effects

Identifiers

PMID36835708
PMCPMC9965367
OpenAlexW4318473377

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Registered trials

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