Fidelity or love the one you're with? Biotic complexity and tradeoffs can drive strategy and specificity in beetle‐fungus by‐product mutualisms

Abstract By‐product mutualisms are ubiquitous yet seldom considered in models of mutualism. Most models represent conditional mutualisms that shift between mutualism and antagonism in response to shifts in costs and benefits resulting from changes in environmental quality. However, in by‐product mut...

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Main Authors: Diana L. Six, Peter H. W. Biedermann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2023-07-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10345