Roles of species-preferential seed dispersal by ants and endozoochory in Melampyrum (Orobanchaceae)
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rts039" target="_blank" >10.1093/jpe/rts039</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Roles of species-preferential seed dispersal by ants and endozoochory in Melampyrum (Orobanchaceae)
Original language description
Aims Melampyrum pratense and M. subalpinum are two myrmecochorous species, which possess similar habitat requirements and frequently occur together. Despite this, their population sizes differ markedly. Melampyrum protease populations are usually very large, whereas M. subalpinum has rather small and isolated populations. We suggest that such an imbalance might be partially influenced by the difference in ant-mediated seed-removal rates. Genus Melampyrum is considered to be exclusively myrmecochorous, though to achieve the recent distribution of some Melampyrum species during the Holocene myrmecochory would be highly insufficient. We suggest that endozoochory takes place in the long-distance migration, whereas myrmecochory is important for the removalof seeds on a local scale. Methods For seed-preference analysis, M. pratense and M. subalpinum mixed seed samples were placed around Formica polyctena anthills. After a period of time, the remaining seeds of both species were counted for
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EF - Botany
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
JOURNAL OF PLANT ECOLOGY
ISSN
1752-9921
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
6
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
232-239
UT code for WoS article
000320678900005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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