Meaning of cambivore | Babel Free

Definitions

Any organism that consumes the cambium of plants.

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Examples

“Other nutritional subgroups, represented in smaller numbers, were cambivores (phloem and cortex feeders), detritrivores (necrophagous species) and wood borers (xylophagous species).”

“On average, obligate predators were more negatively affected than cambivores and facultative predators.”

“Assemblages of clear-cut and old-growth stands were similar, with groups of 'cambivores' and 'obligate saproxylics' differing from those of uncut stands, and related to greater abundance of the latter in old growth habitats with large volumes of suitable dead wood.”

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