Ant identity determines the fungi richness and composition of a myrmecochorous seed. [PDF]
PLoS ONEMyrmecochory-seed dispersal by ants-is a mutualistic interaction in which ants attracted by seed appendices take them away from the parental plant location, where seeds usually have better development odds.
Tiago V Fernandes +4 more
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MYRMECOCHORY - Reprinted from Gaillardia, Fall 1999 [PDF]
Oklahoma Native Plant Record, 2019 Critic's Choice ...
Buck, Paul
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Variation in ant-mediated seed dispersal along elevation gradients [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Ant-mediated seed dispersal, also known as myrmecochory, is a widespread and important mutualism that structures both plant and ant communities. However, the extent to which ant functional types (e.g., granivorous generalists vs.
Israel Del Toro, Relena R. Ribbons
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Adaptive Advantage of Myrmecochory in the Ant-Dispersed Herb Lamium amplexicaule (Lamiaceae): Predation Avoidance through the Deterrence of Post-Dispersal Seed Predators. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory) is found worldwide, but the benefits that plants obtain from this mutualism remain uncertain. In the present study, we conducted laboratory experiments to demonstrate seed predator avoidance as a benefit of ...
Koki Tanaka +4 more
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Scent-mediated bee pollination and myrmecochory in an enigmatic geophyte with pyrogenic flowering and subterranean development of fleshy fruits. [PDF]
Am J BotAbstractPremiseVolatile emissions from flowers and fruits play a key role in signalling to animals responsible for pollination and seed dispersal. Here, we investigated the pollination biology and chemical ecology of reproduction in Apodolirion buchananii, an African amaryllid that flowers in a leafless state soon after grassland vegetation is burnt in
Kiepiel I, Johnson SD.
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Seed Dispersal as a Multiphase Process: Integrating Abiotic and Biotic Vectors Across Ecological Gradients. [PDF]
Ecol EvolRaccoon specimen, seed disperser through endozoochory. ABSTRACT Seed dispersal is a dynamic process through which diaspores (seeds or seed‐bearing fruits) are detached from the mother plant, transported to different sites in the landscape that offer physical protection, competitive advantages, or lower predation risk.
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Putative 'Dispersal Adaptations' Do Not Explain the Colonisation of a Volcanic Island by Vascular Plants, but Birds Can. [PDF]
Ecol LettIt is widely assumed that adaptations for long‐distance dispersal are identifiable from seed and fruit traits used to define ‘dispersal syndromes’. Sixty years of monitoring a new island allowed us to test whether syndromes predict which plant species have colonised.
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Are Local Filters Blind to Provenance? Ant Seed Predation Suppresses Exotic Plants More than Natives [PDF]
, 2014 The question of whether species’ origins influence invasion outcomes has been a point of substantial debate in invasion ecology. Theoretically, colonization outcomes can be predicted based on how species’ traits interact with community filters, a process
Bird, Benjamin B. +3 more
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Reproductive ecology of Allmania nodiflora, Celosia argentea var. margaritacea, and Digera muricata (Amaranthaceae) [PDF]
Botanica Serbica, 2018 Allmania nodiflora, Celosia argentea var. margaritacea, and Digera muricata are annual herbaceous weeds which reproduce exclusively by seed. The plants appear in June, while flowering time is August-February in agricultural fields and August-October ...
Aluri Jacob Solomon Raju +1 more
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First evidence of myrmecochory in fleshy‐fruited shrubs of the Mediterranean region [PDF]
New Phytologist, 1994 SUMMARYIn the mediterranean ecosystems of South Africa and Australia, the role of ants in the dispersal of seeds is well known and antagonistic interactions as well as myrmecochory occur. The high prevalence of seed dispersal by ants, relative so that by vertebrates, is viewed as evidence of adaptation to the nutrient poor soils typical of these ...
ARONNE, GIOVANNA, Wilcock C. C.
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