Ants can provide effective protection from elephant herbivory in East African Acacia species, but is this true for species of West Africa?
Tag - plant–animal interactions
William Salter
What drives germination and seedling survival in an Afrotropical forest?
Hunting in otherwise intact tropical forests removes organisms from some trophic levels, which can change population and community dynamics at other levels. The preferred game species can be dispersers of seeds (e.g...
Geographical variation in damage tolerance: the case of oaks and weevils
The assertion that plants at lower latitudes should be better defended against enemies has a long historical basis but is still controversial. In the current study, Bogdziewicz et al. explore the interaction among holm...
Alex Assiry
Trade-off among different anti-herbivore defence strategies along altitudinal gradient
The type and intensity of plant–herbivore interactions are likely to be changed under climate change as a consequence of differential dispersal rates of plants and their herbivores. In a new study published in AoB...
AoBPLANTS
Effect of nectar robbing on a pollinator-dependent plant
Nectar robbing commonly has negative consequences for the reproductive success of plants. Because total plant fitness is the result of both female and male functions, Rojas-Nossa et al. studied the effect of nectar...
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