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Dynamics of the association between a long-lived understory myrmecophyte and its specific associated ants

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Orivel, Jérôme | Lambs, Luc | Male, Pierre-Jean G. | Leroy, Céline | Grangier, Julien | Otto, Thierry | Quilichini, Angélique | Dejean, Alain

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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.

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