🚀 go-pugleaf

Hallo everyone,

Can anyone let us have any competition coefficients measured for 
pairs of Drosophila species ??  I'd be pleased for any information on the 
subject.

As part of UK-BBSRC funded research on the responses of species 
assemblages to temperature changes we are attempting to produce a model of 
temperature effects on interacting Drosophila species along temperature 
clines.  We chose Drosophila because, generally speaking, much of the 
biological parameters needed are available in the literature.  However, this 
appears to be less true for competition coefficients than for (say) mortality 
rates.  We have most values from the literature (Miller, Glipin etc) but 
imagine in particular that there may be unpublished values that people have 
determined within their own research.

We would use the coefficients primarily to set the ranges expected within and 
between species and so are not looking for values for particular species.

I would be grateful for all help with this search.

regards, Andrew Davis

Drosophila Population Unit, Leedsd, UK:  pab6awd@leeds.ac.uk