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UCARE Research Products
Date of this Version
Spring 5-2016
Document Type
Poster
Citation
Matis, Mitchell, Chad Brassil, and Colby Tanner. Depression in Thermal Performance of Age-Structured Spirodela polyrhiza due to the Presence of Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae. University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 2016
UCARE Poster session, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Research Fair, April 2016, Lincoln, NE.
Abstract
Thermal performance curves are keys components of population ecology. We performed this study to determine the effects of aphids on duckweed age-structured models across temperature. Results show a depression in birth rates and maturation of rates of duckweed in the presence of aphids. Regression analysis shows that this depression in maturation and birth is directly proportional to aphid growth rates across temperatures. This hints of the idea of modeling duckweed and aphid growth via nested thermal performance curves.
Comments
Copyright © 2016 Mitchell P. Matis, Chad E. Brassil, Colby Tanner