Integrating plant carbon dynamics with mutualism ecology
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Integrating plant carbon dynamics with mutualism ecology.
Plants reward microbial and animal mutualists with carbohydrates to obtain nutrients, defense, pollination, and dispersal. Under a fixed carbon budget, plants must allocate carbon to their mutualists at the expense of allocation to growth, reproduction, or storage. Such carbon trade-offs are indirectly expressed when a plant exhibits reduced growth or fecundity in the presence of its mutualist....
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عنوان ژورنال: New Phytologist
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0028-646X,1469-8137
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13679