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Water Stress Strengthens Mutualism Among Ants,Trees,and Scale Insects
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نویسنده
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pringle e.g. ,akçay e. ,raab t.k. ,dirzo r. ,gordon d.m.
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منبع
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plos biology - 2013 - دوره : 11 - شماره : 11
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چکیده
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Abiotic environmental variables strongly affect the outcomes of species interactions. for example,mutualistic interactions between species are often stronger when resources are limited. the effect might be indirect: water stress on plants can lead to carbon stress,which could alter carbon-mediated plant mutualisms. in mutualistic ant-plant symbioses,plants host ant colonies that defend them against herbivores. here we show that the partners' investments in a widespread ant-plant symbiosis increase with water stress across 26 sites along a mesoamerican precipitation gradient. at lower precipitation levels,cordia alliodora trees invest more carbon in azteca ants via phloem-feeding scale insects that provide the ants with sugars,and the ants provide better defense of the carbon-producing leaves. under water stress,the trees have smaller carbon pools. a model of the carbon trade-offs for the mutualistic partners shows that the observed strategies can arise from the carbon costs of rare but extreme events of herbivory in the rainy season. thus,water limitation,together with the risk of herbivory,increases the strength of a carbon-based mutualism. © 2013 pringle et al.
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آدرس
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department of biology,stanford university,stanford,ca,united states,michigan society of fellows,university of michigan,ann arbor,mi,united states,department of ecology and evolutionary biology,university of michigan,ann arbor,mi,united states,school of natural resources and environment,university of michigan,ann arbor,mi, United States, department of biology,stanford university,stanford,ca,united states,national institute for mathematical and biological synthesis,university of tennessee,knoxville,tn,united states,department of ecology and evolutionary biology,princeton university,princeton,nj,united states,department of biology,university of pennsylvania,philadelphia,pa, United States, carnegie institution for science,stanford,ca, United States, department of biology,stanford university,stanford,ca, United States, department of biology,stanford university,stanford,ca, United States
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