文摘
Coralline-coralline and coralline-other plant (including higher plants, algae, fungi and prokaryotes) interactions are reviewed in terms of competition, parasitism, commensalism, amensalism, neutralism, protocooperation and mutualism. Two of the seven interactions appear unreported (neutralism and protocooperation), four (commensalism, competition, parasitism and amensalism) are recorded to varying degrees, and one is uncertain (mutualism). Within competition and parasitism, most known interactions are coralline-coralline, whereas amensal and commensal interactions were dominated by coralline-other plant interactions. Examining coralline-coralline and coralline-other plant interactions shows that we know very little, particularly about coralline interactions involving algal hosts.