ArticleEcology and evolution2020
To clean or not to clean: Cleaning mutualism breakdown in a tidal environment.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Guides and cheats: producer-scrounger dynamics in the human-honeyguide mutualism.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Delayed recovery and host specialization may spell disaster for coral-fish mutualism.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- A marine cleaning mutualism provides new insights in biological market dynamics.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Sociality and self-awareness in animals.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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- To clean or not to clean: Cleaning mutualism breakdown in a tidal environment.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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Abstract
The dynamics and prevalence of mutualistic interactions, which are responsible for the maintenance and structuring of all ecological communities, are vulnerable to changes in abiotic and biotic environmental conditions. Mutualistic outcomes can quickly shift from cooperation to conflict, but it unclear how resilient and stable mutualistic outcomes are to more variable conditions. Tidally controlled coral atoll lagoons that experience extreme diurnal environmental shifts thus provide a model from which to test plasticity in mutualistic behavior of dedicated (formerly obligate) cleaner fish, which acquire all their food resources through client interactions. Here, we investigated cleaning patterns of a model cleaner fish species, the bluestreak wrasse (
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