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HAL CCSD Springer Verlag (Germany) Résumé : International audience
Myrmecophytic symbioses are widespread in tropical ecosystems and their diversity makes them useful tools for understanding the origin and evolution of mutualisms. Obligate ant-plants, or myrmecophytes, provide a nesting place, and, often, food to a limited number of plant-ant species. In exchange, plant-ants protect their host plants from herbivores, competitors and pathogens, and can provide them with nutrients.
Oecologia
hal-00955375
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00955375 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00955375/document DOI : 10.1007/s00442-010-1739-5
OATAO : 11094