Mutualism In The Tropical Rainforest

Mutualism is an interaction that benefits both species by providing each with food, shelter, or some other resource. Basically, mutualism is any relationship between any ii organisms that benefits both species. (Spoolman, 2012)

An example of this are the Laotian leaf cutter ants that live underground in the rainforest and have a mutualistic relationship with a fungus at that place.

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The ants cut the chunk of leaves from trees even though they cannot actually assimilate the plant affair. They bring this establish matter dorsum to the nest and cultivate a mucus. The fungus is fed past the plant thing from the ants, and in plough it provides nutrient for the ants. ("Southeast", 2013)

Another example of mutualism in the Laotian rainforest is the good-for-me, good-for-you relationship of the gongora orchid and the Asian carpenter bee.Gongora orchids produce no nectar, but they still perform a service for the bees they manage to concenter.

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They produce a strong scent to which the euglossine, or carpenter, bees come up. The bees receive no nectar in render for their pollination services, but the olfactory property which they option up is essential to their own breeding process. The highly scented males assemble together and fly in a swarm, which attracts females for mating. ("Southeast", 2013)