Benefits for Plants in Ant-Plant Protective Mutualisms: A Meta-Analysis

• Matthew D. Trager ,

  * E-mail: mtrager@ufl.edu

  Affiliations Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Smriti Bhotika,

  Affiliations School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Jeffrey A. Hostetler,

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Gilda V. Andrade,

  Affiliation Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil

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• Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• C. Seabird McKeon,

  Affiliations Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Craig W. Osenberg,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Benjamin M. Bolker

  Current address: Department of Mathematics & Statistics and Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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