dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.creatorRomero, G. Q.
dc.creatorMazzafera, P.
dc.creatorVasconcellos-Neto, J.
dc.creatorTrivelin, PCO
dc.date2014-05-20T15:20:25Z
dc.date2016-10-25T17:53:31Z
dc.date2014-05-20T15:20:25Z
dc.date2016-10-25T17:53:31Z
dc.date2006-04-01
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-05T23:25:41Z
dc.date.available2017-04-05T23:25:41Z
dc.identifierEcology. Washington: Ecological Soc Amer, v. 87, n. 4, p. 803-808, 2006.
dc.identifier0012-9658
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/31721
dc.identifierhttp://acervodigital.unesp.br/handle/11449/31721
dc.identifier10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[803:BSIHPN]2.0.CO;2
dc.identifierWOS:000236863200001
dc.identifierWOS000236863200001.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[803:BSIHPN]2.0.CO;2
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/876201
dc.descriptionAlthough bromeliads are believed to obtain nutrients from debris deposited by animals in their rosettes, there is little evidence to support this assumption. Using stable isotope methods, we found that the Neotropical jumping spider Psecas chapoda (Salticidae), which lives strictly associated with the terrestrial bromeliad Bromelia balansae, contributed 18% of the total nitrogen of its host plant in a greenhouse experiment. In a one-year field experiment, plants with spiders produced leaves 15% longer than plants from which the spiders were excluded. This is the first study to show nutrient provisioning in a spider-plant system. Because several animal species live strictly associated with bromeliad rosettes, this type of facultative mutualism involving the Bromeliaceac may be more common than previously thought.
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherEcological Soc Amer
dc.relationEcology
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectanimal-plant interaction
dc.subjectBromelia balansae
dc.subjectBromeliaceae
dc.subjectdigestive mutualism
dc.subjectjumping spider
dc.subjectnitrogen fluxes
dc.subjectnutrient provisioning
dc.subjectPsecas chapoda
dc.subjectSalticidae
dc.subjectspider-plant mutualism
dc.subjectstable isotope N-15
dc.titleBromeliad-living spiders improve host plant nutrition and growth
dc.typeOtro


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