Conveners
Competition, coexistence, mutualism
- Mark Tanaka (University of New South Wales)
Tubeworms and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria mutualism, an essential part of the chemosynthetic ecosystem in the deep-sea, has several puzzling features. After acquiring sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from the environment, tubeworms becomes fully dependent on their symbiont bacteria for nutrient intake. Once ingested by the tubeworm larva, no additional symbionts join from the environment, and no...
Making effective management decisions is challenging in multi-species, multi-threat systems because of uncertainty about the effects of different threats on different species. To inform management decisions, we often monitor species to detect spatial or temporal trends that can help us learn about threatening processes. However, which species to monitor and how to monitor to inform the...
Mutualism or cooperation between and among species is ubiquitous in nature. The most well-known examples of mutualism are Müllerian mimicry and division of labour. In Müllerian mimicry, unpalatable species have evolved the similar appearances and they are less likely to be predated upon because the predators effectively learn that these species are noxious. In division of labour, each species...
