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Ants cannot account for interpopulation dispersal of the arillate pea Daviesia triflora.
The New phytologist - 1 Jan 2009
He Tianhua, Lamont Byron B, Krauss Siegfried L, Enright Neal J, Miller Ben P, Gove Aaron D
Abstract excerpt
Estimating distances and rates of seed dispersal, especially long-distance dispersal (LDD), is critical for understanding the dynamics of patchily distributed populations and species' range shifts in response to environmental change. Daviesia triflora (Papilionaceae) is an ant-dispersed shrub. The ant Rhytidoponera violacea was recorded dispersing its seeds to a maximum distance of 4.7 m, and in more intensive...
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