they derive benefits from their relationship but could survive without each other (facultative mutualism). Here are eight examples of mutualistic relationships. True gobies (Gobiidae) are a family of ...

It explains mutualism through examples like termites and their symbiotic microorganisms, while emphasizing the harmful effects of parasitism through various flatworms, including tapeworms and flukes.

This alliance is an example of mutualism, a form of symbiosis, an intimate relationship between different organisms whose survival depends on one another. Other examples include bacteria that ...

Examples of density-dependent population ... 315-330. Bronstein, J. L. "Mutualism and symbiosis," in The Princeton Guide to Ecology, ed. S. A. Levin (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press ...

the true relationship may fall in between the set categories, and even shift between categories over time. For example, a well documented mutualism is the ant-plant interaction (reviewed in Heil ...