cambivore

plural cambivores

1. rarebiologyAny organism that consumes the cambium of plants.

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

   2017, Jonas Victorsson, “Stump extraction in the surrounding landscape: predatory saproxylic beetles are more negatively affected than lower trophic levels.”, in Forest ecology and management

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

   2015, Jon Andersson, “Wood-inhabiting beetles in low stumps, high stumps and logs on boreal clear-cuts: implications for dead wood management”, in PLoS One

   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.

   2018, Tim R. New, Forests and Insect Conservation in Australia, page 15