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互惠互利是消费者与资源之间的互动,在这种互动中,双方交换商品和服务。生物市场理论认为,交换应由双方共同调节。然而,大多数关于互生关系的研究都是片面的,侧重于宿主生物对其共生体的控制。在无花果树与其共生体黄蜂传粉者之间的产卵地授粉互惠关系中,带瘿花朵是传粉者幼虫的发育场所,并通过授粉服务进行交换。我们研究了传粉昆虫的虫瘿是否会影响无花果花序的资源分配,并考虑了来自寄主树的反馈。我们通过实验培育了只含种子(S)、只含传粉小蜂虫瘿(G)或含种子和虫瘿(SG)的无花果花序,并引入了不同数量的雌性传粉小蜂,即雌蜂。雌蜂数量和处理组别会影响绣线菊的生物量分配;雌蜂数量少时,SG 处理的生物量分配最多,雌蜂数量多时,G 和 SG 处理的生物量分配都最多。在雌株数量较少的情况下,种子是生物量分配的重要决定因素;在雌株数量较多的情况下,虫瘿的影响可能更大。在 G 和 SG 处理中,大部分种子被分配到梧桐壁上,这可能是为了防止寄生虫和温度/湿度波动的影响。各处理组之间种子和黄蜂个体的干质量(除雌虫数量少的情况外)没有变化,这表明种子和黄蜂可调节流入它们体内的资源,与雌雄二形性相比,流入含有较小雄蜂的虫瘿的资源较少。我们证明了考虑共生体在获取资源和控制互生体内部交换中的直接作用的重要性。
Who holds the reins? Context-dependent resource allocation in the mutualism between fig trees and their fig wasp pollinators.
Mutualisms are consumer-resource interactions, in which goods and services are exchanged. Biological market theory states that exchanges should be regulated by both partners. However, most studies on mutualisms are one-sided, focusing on the control exercised by host organisms on their symbionts. In the brood-site pollination mutualism between fig trees and their symbiont wasp pollinators, galled flowers are development sites for pollinator larvae and are exchanged for pollination services. We determined if pollinator galls influenced resource allocation to fig inflorescences called syconia and considered feedbacks from the host tree. We experimentally produced syconia containing only seeds (S), only pollinator galls (G) or seeds and galls (SG) with varying number of introduced female pollinator wasps, i.e., foundress wasps. Biomass allocation to syconia was affected by foundress numbers and treatment groups; SG treatments received highest biomass allocation at low foundress numbers, and both G and SG treatments at high foundress numbers. Seeds are important determinants of allocation at low foundress numbers; galls are likely more influential at high foundress numbers. Most allocation in the G and SG treatment was to the syconium wall, likely as protection from parasitoids and temperature/humidity fluctuations. Dry mass of individual seeds and wasps (except at low foundress numbers) was unchanged between treatment groups, indicating seeds and wasps regulate resource flow into them, with lower flow into galls containing the smaller males compared to females commensurate with sexual dimorphism. We demonstrate the importance of considering the direct role of symbionts in accessing resources and controlling exchanges within mutualisms.
期刊介绍:
Oecologia publishes innovative ecological research of international interest. We seek reviews, advances in methodology, and original contributions, emphasizing the following areas:
Population ecology, Plant-microbe-animal interactions, Ecosystem ecology, Community ecology, Global change ecology, Conservation ecology,
Behavioral ecology and Physiological Ecology.
In general, studies that are purely descriptive, mathematical, documentary, and/or natural history will not be considered.