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Countless ants transport and deposit seeds and thereby influence
the survival, death, and evolution of many plant species. In higher
plants, seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory) has appeared many
times independently in different lineages. More than 3000 plant
species are known to utilize ant assistance to be planted.
Myrmecochory is a very interesting and rather enigmatic form of
mutualistic ant-plant associations. This phenomenon is extremely
complex, because there are hundreds of ant species connected with
hundreds of plant species. This book effectively combines a
thorough approach to investigating morphological and physiological
adaptations of plants with elegant field experiments on the
behaviour of ants. This monograph is a first attempt at collecting
information about morphology, ecology and phenology of ants and
plants from one ecosystem. The book gives readers a panoramic view
of the hidden, poorly-known interrelations not only between pairs
of ants and plant species, but also between species communities in
the ecosystem. The authors have considered not just one aspect of
animal-plant relationships, but have tried to show them in all
their complexity. Some aspects of the ant-plant interactions
described in the book may be of interest to botanists, others to
zoologists or ecologists, but the entire work is an excellent
example of the marriage of these biological disciplines.
Countless ants transport and deposit seeds and thereby influence
the survival, death, and evolution of many plant species. In higher
plants, seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory) has appeared many
times independently in different lineages. More than 3000 plant
species are known to utilize ant assistance to be planted.
Myrmecochory is a very interesting and rather enigmatic form of
mutualistic ant-plant associations. This phenomenon is extremely
complex, because there are hundreds of ant species connected with
hundreds of plant species. This book effectively combines a
thorough approach to investigating morphological and physiological
adaptations of plants with elegant field experiments on the
behaviour of ants. This monograph is a first attempt at collecting
information about morphology, ecology and phenology of ants and
plants from one ecosystem. The book gives readers a panoramic view
of the hidden, poorly-known interrelations not only between pairs
of ants and plant species, but also between species communities in
the ecosystem. The authors have considered not just one aspect of
animal-plant relationships, but have tried to show them in all
their complexity. Some aspects of the ant-plant interactions
described in the book may be of interest to botanists, others to
zoologists or ecologists, but the entire work is an excellent
example of the marriage of these biological disciplines.
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