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Plant reproductive traits mediate tritrophic feedback effects within an obligate brood-site pollination mutualism.
Oecologia - 1 Nov 2015
Krishnan Anusha, Ghara Mahua, Kasinathan Srinivasan, Pramanik Gautam Kumar, Revadi Santosh, Borges Renee M
Abstract excerpt
Plants, herbivores and parasitoids affect each other directly and indirectly; however, feedback effects mediated by host plant traits have rarely been demonstrated in these tritrophic interactions. Brood-site pollination mutualisms (e.g. those involving figs and fig wasps) represent specialised tritrophic communities where the progeny of mutualistic pollinators and of non-mutualistic gallers (both herbivores)...
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