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Traits Associated With Local Extinctions of Native Plants in a Species‐Rich Urban Reserve

Applied Vegetation Science, Volume 28, Issue 3, July/September 2025.
A comprehensive resurvey of an urban reserve in Sydney failed to redetect 29% of native vascular plant species recorded from 1976 to 1992. Compared with persistent species, locally extinct species were shorter on average and more likely to have a graminoid habit and be water‐associated.
Thomas Mesaglio, Hervé Sauquet, William K. Cornwell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Herbaceous Plant Succession and Dispersal Mechanisms in Deglaciated Terrain on Mt. Yulong, China

The Scientific World Journal, 2014
Ecological succession itself could be a theoretical reference for ecosystem restoration and reconstruction. Glacier forelands are ideal places for investigating plant succession because there are representative ecological succession records at long ...
Li Chang, Yuanqing He, Taibao Yang, Jiankuo Du, Hewen Niu, Tao Pu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Plant Invasions Reduce the Degree of Nestedness on Warm Temperate Islands

Journal of Vegetation Science, Volume 36, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
Using field surveys and published data for 1543 native and non‐native plant species, we quantified nested patterns across 264 islands off northern New Zealand. Plant communities are mostly nested, and island area is the predominant factor in shaping these patterns.
Fabio Mologni, Peter J. Bellingham, Ewen K. Cameron, Anthony E. Wright, Yanping Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two new mountainous species of Lactuca (Cichorieae, Asteraceae) from Iran, one presenting a new, possibly myrmecochorous achene variant

PhytoKeys, 2012
It is shown that the concept of the Iranian endemic Lactuca polyclada in the sense of both its original author Boissier and its current use actually admixes two entirely different species, as was first noted by Beauverd a hundred years ago but has been ...
Norbert Kilian, Bahereh Djavadi, Majid Eskandari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Ant-Plant Mesocosm Experiment Reveals Dispersal Patterns of Myrmecochorous Plants [PDF]

, 2019
For Central European herbs, ants are one common dispersal vector acting at relatively small spatial scales. Though extensively studied concerning the different benefits to plants, specific dispersal patterns mediated by ants have been reportedly very ...
Fokuhl, Gerriet, Heinze, Jürgen, Poschlod, Peter   +2 more
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Ovule, seed and seedling characters in Acharia (Achariaceae) with evidence of myrmecochory in the family

South African Journal of Botany, 2002
An investigation of mature seed structure in Guthriea capensis and ovule-to-seed development in Acharia tragodes indicate that the two species are herbaceous myrmecochores with similar adaptations for seed dispersal and germination. The development and structure of the modified seed tissues, namely a sarcotestal elaiosome, a fringe layer in the ...
Steyn, E.M.A, van Wyk, A.E., Smith, G.F., Brown, N.A.C.   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Evolution of Oviposition Techniques in Stick and Leaf Insects (Phasmatodea)

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018
Stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) are large, tropical, predominantly nocturnal herbivores, which exhibit extreme masquerade crypsis, whereby they morphologically and behaviorally resemble twigs, bark, lichen, moss, and leaves.
James A. Robertson, James A. Robertson, Sven Bradler, Michael F. Whiting   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Geographical and interspecific variation and the nutrient‐enrichment hypothesis as an adaptive advantage of myrmecochory

Ecography, 2012
In myrmecochory, the relocation of diaspores to ant nests may lead to the enhancement of plant fitness because ant nests and their middens are often richer in essential nutrients than surrounding areas. This idea is the basis of the nutrient‐enrichment hypothesis (NEH), which suggests that nutrient enrichment may be a major ...
Antonio J. Manzaneda, Pedro J. Rey
openaire   +1 more source

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Plant Species Biology, Volume 41, Issue 1, January 2026.
This photo of Setaria faberi (giant foxtail) was taken at the experimental field of the Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University. The photograph was taken by Akira Yamawo. Our research revealed that Setaria viridis (green foxtail) and Setaria faberi (giant foxtail) are the first known grass species to form a myrmecochorous (ant‐dispersal ...
wiley   +1 more source

Are subordinate ants the best seed dispersers? Linking dominance hierarchies and seed dispersal ability in myrmecochory interactions

Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2011
True myrmecochory involves the dispersal of elaiosome-bearing seeds by ants. Between the guild of ants that are attracted to these seeds, only a few of them will act as effective dispersers, that is, transporting the seeds to suitable sites (the nests) for germination and plant estab- lishment. Ant communities are known to be highly hier- archical, and
Aranda Rickert, Adriana Marina, Fracchia, Sebastian   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources