Symbiont switching and alternative resource acquisition strategies drive mutualism breakdown
G. D. A. Werner, J. H. C. Cornelissen, W. K. Cornwell, N. A. Soudzilovskaia, J. Kattge, S. A. West, T. Kiers
The paper identifies factors driving mutualism breakdown between plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, finding that mutualism breakdown is stable only when plants switch to other symbionts or develop alternative resource acquisition strategies.
bioRxiv · Apr 26, 2018Evolutionary Biology