ECOLOGY: The Importance of Being Eaten

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Science 11 January 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5860, pp. 146 - 147
DOI: 10.1126/science.319.5860.146b

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ECOLOGY:
The Importance of Being Eaten

Mitch Leslie

On page 192 of this week's issue of Science, ecologists reveal that the partnership between acacia trees and the helper ants that fend off intruders for them in East Africa falls apart when large herbivores such as giraffes, elephants, and antelopes are absent.

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REPORTS Breakdown of an Ant-Plant Mutualism Follows the Loss of Large Herbivores from an African Savanna: Todd M. Palmer, Maureen L. Stanton, Truman P. Young, Jacob R. Goheen, Robert M. Pringle, and Richard Karban (11 January 2008)
Science 319 (5860), 192. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1151579]
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