The unique interaction between the summer annual desert plant Salsola inermis Forssk and weevils residing on its roots: mutualism or parasitism?

1. Herbivores and parasites are likely to impose less damage on their host when their growth rate is slow and their dependency on the host is high. Accordingly, it was hypothesised that evolution would favour neutral or even beneficial interactions between a below‐ground herbivore and a plant during the harsh season in a desert ecosystem.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Ecological Entomology

• Publication date

  2020-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1111/een.12772
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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