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Stage-Specific Parasitism by a Mutualistic Partner Can Increase the Host Abundance
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Mutualism is one of the major interaction types occurring in ecological communities, and has significant consequences for population dynamics and community structure.
Takefumi Nakazawa, Noboru Katayama
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Investigations into stability in the fig/ fig-wasp mutualism [PDF]
, 2010 Fig trees (Ficus, Moraceae) and their pollinating wasps (Chalcidoidea, Agaonidae) are involved in an obligate mutualism where each partner relies on the other in order to reproduce: the pollinating fig wasps are a fig tree’s only pollen disperser ...
Al-Beidh, Sarah, Al-Beidh, Sarah
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Mutualism is common in nature and is crucial for population dynamics, community structure, and ecosystem functioning. Studies have recently pointed out that life-history stage structure (e.g., juveniles and adults) is a key factor to better understand ...
Takefumi Nakazawa +5 more
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Plant connectivity underlies plant-pollinator-exploiter distributions in Ficus petiolaris and associated pollinating and non-pollinating fig wasps [PDF]
, 2016 Peer ...
Duthie, A. Bradley +2 more
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Ecosphere, 2022 Theoretical studies have shown that in protection mutualism, the modification of top‐down control by protectors may be destabilizing. Central to this prediction are the assumptions that (1) protection mutualism increases the abundance of protected ...
Manuel A. Morales +2 more
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Cheating and the evolutionary stability of mutualisms [PDF]
, 2002 Interspecific mutualisms have been playing a central role in the functioning of all ecosystems since the early history of life. Yet the theory of coevolution of mutualists is virtually nonexistent, by contrast with well-developed coevolutionary theories ...
Bronstein, J L +4 more
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A mutualism-parasitism system modeling host and parasite withmutualism at low density
Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2012 A mutualism-parasitism system of two species is considered, where mutualism is the dominant interaction when the predators (parasites) are at low density while parasitism is dominant when the predators are at high density.
Yuanshi Wang, Donald L. DeAngelis
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Mutualism and adaptive divergence: co-invasion of a heterogeneous grassland by an exotic legume-rhizobium symbiosis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Species interactions play a critical role in biological invasions. For example, exotic plant and microbe mutualists can facilitate each other's spread as they co-invade novel ranges.
Stephanie S Porter +2 more
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The Central Symbiosis of Molecular Biology: Molecules in Mutualism. [PDF]
, 2017 As illustrated by the mitochondrion and the eukaryotic cell, little in biology makes sense except in light of mutualism. Mutualisms are persistent, intimate, and reciprocal exchanges; an organism proficient in obtaining certain benefits confers those on ...
Lanier, Kathryn A +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Climate change and other anthropogenic activities have the potential to alter the dynamics of resource exchange in the mutualistic symbiosis between plants and mycorrhizal fungi, potentially altering its stability.
André G. Duarte, Hafiz Maherali
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