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- Title
Digestive mutualism, an alternate pathway in plant carnivory.
- Authors
Anderson, B.; Midgley, J.J.
- Abstract
Carnivorous plants feature highly derived growth forms and they have been used as model systems in the study of macro morphological evolution in angiosperms. Carnivorous plants must fulfil two requirements. One is that they must be able to absorb nutrients from dead animals next to their surfaces and secondly they must possess morphological, physiological, or behavioural features whose primary effect is attraction, capture or digestion of prey. Furthermore plants capable of absorbing nutrients from dead animals, but which lack active means of prey attraction and prey digestion, and posses neither motile traps nor passive structures like one-way passages whose primary result is immobilisation of animals near plant surfaces must be considered saprophytes and not carnivorous plants nutrients from animals.
- Subjects
CARNIVOROUS plants; ANGIOSPERMS; PLANT nutrients
- Publication
Oikos, 2003, Vol 102, Issue 1, p221
- ISSN
0030-1299
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12478.x