The cost of myrmecophytism: insights from allometry of stem secondary growth | Zendy

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The cost of myrmecophytism: insights from allometry of stem secondary growth

Author(s) -

Rumsaïs Blatrix,

Delphine Renard,

Champlain DjiétoLordon,

Doyle McKey

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

annals of botany

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.567

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1095-8290

pISSN - 0305-7364

DOI - 10.1093/aob/mcs164

Subject(s) - plant stem , biology , allometry , herbivore , production (economics) , investment (military) , secondary growth , production cost , botany , ecology , xylem , mechanical engineering , politics , political science , law , economics , macroeconomics , engineering

Plant defence traits against herbivores incur production costs that are usually difficult to measure. However, estimating these costs is a prerequisite for characterizing the plant defence strategy as a whole. Myrmecophytes are plants that provide symbiotic ants with specialized nesting cavities, called domatia, in exchange for protection against herbivores. In the particular case of stem domatia, production of extra wood seems to be the only associated cost, making this indirect defence trait a particularly suitable model for estimating the cost of defence.

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