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SUBMITTER: Christian N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6010867 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Christian Natalie N Bever James D JD
Ecology and evolution 20180504 11
Plants engage in multiple root symbioses that offer varying degrees of benefit. We asked how variation in partner quality persists using a resource-ratio model of population growth. We considered the plant's ability to preferentially allocate carbon to mutualists and competition for plant carbon between mutualist and nonmutualist symbionts. We treated carbon as two nutritionally interchangeable, but temporally separated, resources-carbon allocated indiscriminately for the construction of the sym ...[more]