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The emergence proportion of parasitoids was calculated as the number of emerged parasitoids divided by the sum of emerged parasitoids and remaining mummies for each aphid species.
In this study, we recorded four life-history traits of aphids and their primary and secondary parasitoids that we expected to vary along a plant richness gradient: (1) the proportion of winged individuals in aphid colonies, (2) the emergence proportion of parasitoids, (3) the proportion of parasitoids that are female and (4) the body mass of the two most abundant parasitoids.
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Similarly, emergence proportions of parasitoids decreased with increasing plant species richness.
Emergence proportions of parasitoids similarly decreased with increasing plant species richness.
Both emergence proportions and proportions of females were lower in plant communities containing legumes compared with legume-free communities.
Both, emergence proportions and proportions of female parasitoids were lower in plots with legumes, where host plants had increased nitrogen concentrations.
However, the latter was largely due to the fact that parasitoids of aphid species with legume host plants showed very low emergence proportions (Fig. 2, Table 3).
When considering only aphid species that were hosts for the two most abundant parasitoids, A. arvicola and T. brevicornis (mummies only on non-legume host plants), emergence proportions were similar in legume and non-legume plots (F1,25 = 0.029, P = 0.867).
Separately for each species or population, lethal ivermectin concentrations causing 50% larva-to-adult mortality (LC50) plus their 95% confidence intervals were estimated by regressing logit-transformed emergence proportions against log10 ivermectin concentration) (ToxRat 2003).
In contrast to general parasitoid emergence and proportions of females, the body mass of the two most abundant primary parasitoids, A. arvicola and T. brevicornis, was higher in the presence of legumes in the plant community.
We did not test proportion emergence because more adults might have emerged from low leaf litter treatments had the experiment been run longer, possibly biasing those results.
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