Interactions, Plant-Fungal
Fungi are the most common parasites of plants, causing many kinds of diseases. Nonetheless, a fungus often parasitizes a plant without causing harm, and it may even be benef...
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Interactions, Plant-Insect
Insect-plant interaction refers to the activities of two types of organisms: insects that seek out and utilize plants for food, shelter, and/or egg-laying sites, and the pla...
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Interactions, Plant-Plant
In plant communities each plant might interact in a positive, negative, or neutral manner. Plants often directly or indirectly alter the availability of resources and the phy...
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Interactions, Plant-Vertebrate
Because plants can photosynthesize, they form the base of food chains in most ecosystems. During the past five hundred million years, vertebrates have evolved many metho...
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Symbiosis
Symbiosis is simply defined as living together. Scientists use this term to describe intimate relationships between members of different species. By definition there are at least two species...
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Symbiosis
Symbiosis is a close association and interaction between organisms of two or more species. Symbiotic relationships that have occurred over long periods of time may have resulted in evolution...
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Microbial Symbiosis
Symbiosis is generally defined as a condition where two dissimilar organisms live together in an intimate associate that sees both organisms benefit. Microbial symbiosis tends to b...
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Symbiosis
In the broad sense, symbiosis means simply "living together"—the union of two separately evolved organisms into a single functional unit regardless of the positive or ...
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