Myrmecochory, or seed dispersal by ants, is a dispersal syndrome found among several
thousand plant species occupying different ecosystems and geographical regions. Typically …

Historic and current land-use changes have altered the landscape for grassland biota, with
over 90% of grasslands and savannas converted to agriculture or some other use in north …

Feeding on Non-Prey Resources by Natural Enemies Moshe Coll Reports on the
consumption of non-prey food sources, particularly plant materials, by predators and …

This advanced textbook is the first to explore the consequences of plant dispersal for
population and community dynamics, spatial patterns, and evolution. It successfully …

We update the global assessment of seed dispersal by ants and test the hypothesis that the
body size of seed‐dispersing ant species varies with latitude in the same way as dispersal …

Ants frequently interact with non-myrmecochorous diaspores on the ground in neotropical
savannas. Our objective was to quantify the removal rate of these diaspores by ants and …

Ants are ecosystems engineers, keystone species and incredibly abundant worldwide. A
major cosmopolitan interaction between ants and plants is ant-mediated seed dispersal …

Questions: How often has dispersal of seeds by ants evolved in monocots and is the timing
of origins associated with changes in the ant community or instead with the rise of forests …

Benefits conferred on plants in ant-mediated seed dispersal mutualisms (myrmecochory)
depend on the fate of transported seeds. We studied the effects of elaiosome presence …

The evolution of pollination and seed dispersal mutualisms is conditioned by the spatial and
temporal co-occurrence of animals and plants. In the present study we explore the timing of …