Switching roles from antagonist to mutualist: a harvester ant as a key seed disperser of a myrmecochorous plant,Ecological Entomology

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Switching roles from antagonist to mutualist: a harvester ant as a key seed disperser of a myrmecochorous plant
Ecological Entomology ( IF 2.0 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-14 , DOI: 10.1111/een.12885
Diego V. Anjos _{1,

2} , Alan N. Andersen ₃ , Raquel L. Carvalho ₂ , Raquel M. F. Sousa ₂ , Kleber Del‐Claro _{1,

2}

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1. Harvester ants are major seed predators in arid environments. However, given that many harvester ants are partly omnivorous and therefore potentially attracted to the elaiosomes of myrmecochorous seeds, it is unclear if these ants act as predators or dispersers when removing myrmecochorous seeds.

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