The unique interaction between the summer annual desert plant Salsola inermis Forssk and weevils residing on its roots: mutualism or parasitism?

Agriculture & Biology

• Salsola 100%
• xerophytes 87%
• mutualism 77%
• Curculionidae 66%
• parasitism 58%
• herbivores 46%
• summer 43%
• deserts 21%
• plant growth 15%
• plant nitrogen content 13%
• Amaranthaceae 13%
• fruit size 12%
• carbon nitrogen ratio 11%
• seed productivity 11%
• Israel 11%
• aboveground biomass 11%
• plant tissues 9%
• oviposition 9%
• ecosystems 8%
• Coleoptera 8%
• parasites 7%
• seedlings 6%
• biomass 6%
• larvae 6%
• fruits 6%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• mutualism 89%
• parasitism 87%
• desert 54%
• summer 38%
• herbivory 23%
• herbivore 13%
• above-ground biomass growth 13%
• fruit 13%
• oviposition 9%
• seed production 9%
• annual plant 9%
• seedling 6%
• parasite 6%
• larva 6%
• mud 5%
• budget 5%
• tissue 4%
• consumption 4%
• damage 4%
• biomass 4%
• nitrogen 3%
• ecosystem 3%
• exposure 3%
• effect 1%