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Signals Can Trump Rewards in Attracting Seed-Dispersing Ants

Both rewards and signals are important in mutualisms. In myrmecochory, or seed dispersal by ants, the benefits to plants are relatively well studied, but less is known about why ants pick up and move seeds. We examined seed dispersal by the ant Aphaenogaster rudis of four co-occurring species of pla...

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Библиографические подробности
Главные авторы: Turner, Kyle M., Frederickson, Megan E.
Формат: Artigo
Язык:Inglês
Опубликовано: Public Library of Science 2013
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Online-ссылка:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3742508/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23967257
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071871
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