Interactions between pollinator and non-pollinator fig wasps: correlations between their numbers can be misleading
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Interactions between pollinator and non-pollinator fig wasps: correlations between their numbers can be misleading
23 Ficus and their species–specific pollinator fig wasps represent an obligate plant-insect 24 mutualism, but figs also support a community of non-pollinating fig wasps (NPFWs) 25 that consist of gall makers and parasitoids/inquilines. We studied interactions between 26 Kradibia tentacularis, the pollinator of a dioecious fig tree species Ficus montana, and 27 an undescribed NPFW Sycoscapter sp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Entomological Science
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1343-8786
DOI: 10.1111/ens.12100