Our current understanding of manipulation is based on primate hands, resulting in a detailed
but narrow perspective of ways to handle objects. Although most other animals lack hands …

Ant-dispersed plants usually produce seeds with appendages (elaiosomes) as reward for
ants. Plants that produce high-quality elaiosomes benefit because ants preferentially …

Open‐pit coal mining causes strong negative impacts on biodiversity because this activity
completely removes thick layers of soil. Focusing on ants as functional agents responding to …

Myrmecochory (seed dispersal by ants) is a prominent dispersal mechanism in many
environments, and can play a key role in local vegetation dynamics. Here we investigate its …

According to most studies on seed dispersal in tropical forests, mammals and birds are
considered the main dispersal agents and the role played by other animal groups remains …

Deceptive species are a characteristic trait of insect–plant mutualisms. Deception of
pollinators is essential for reproduction in diverse plant species; however, mimicry in seed …

Laboratory and field data show that the digging habits of ants and the resulting nest
architecture vary with soil conditions, yet, the geomechanical understanding of ant tunneling …

Myrmecochory (dispersal of seeds by ants) is an evolutionarily and ecologically common
mutualism. Most of the research on the costs and benefits of myrmecochory in North America …

Seed dispersal by ants (ie myrmecochory) is usually considered as a mutualism: ants feed
on nutritive bodies, called elaiosomes, before rejecting and dispersing seeds in their nest …

Hutchinsonian niche theory posits that organisms have fundamental abiotic resource
requirements from which they are limited by competition. Organisms also have fundamental …