Evaluation of seed-dispersal services by ants at a temperate pasture: Results of direct observations in an ant suppression experiment

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Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/60076658:12310/23:43906672 RIV/25271121:_____/23:N0000140

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.10569" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.10569</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10569" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.10569</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Evaluation of seed-dispersal services by ants at a temperate pasture: Results of direct observations in an ant suppression experiment

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Ants disperse seeds of many plant species adapted to myrmecochory. While advantages of this ant–plant mutualism for myrmecochorous plants (myrmecochores) have been previously studied in temperate region mostly in forests, our study system was a pasture. Moreover, we used a unique combination of observing the effect of ant-activity suppression on ant dispersal and comparison of the contribution of ant and unassisted dispersal to the distance from mother plant. We established plots without and with ant-activity suppression (enclosures). We offered diaspores of a myrmecochorous (Knautia arvensis), and a non-myrmecochorous (Plantago lanceolata) species in a choice test and followed ants carrying diaspores during days and nights (focus of previous studies was on diurnal dispersal). We measured frequency and distances of ant dispersal and compared them with unassisted dispersal recorded using sticky trap method. The dispersal frequency was lower in enclosures (3.16 times). Ants strongly preferred diaspores of the myrmecochore to non-myrmecochore with 586 and 42 dispersal events, respectively (out of 6400 diaspores of each species offered). Ant dispersal resulted in more even and on average longer distances (maximum almost tenfold longer, 994 cm) in comparison to unassisted dispersal. Ant dispersal altered the distribution of distances of the myrmecochore from roughly symmetric for unassisted dispersal to positively skewed. Ants dispersed heavier diaspores farther. Ants dropped the majority of diaspores during the dispersal (which reduces clustering of seeds), while several (11%) were carried into anthills. Anthills are disturbed microsites presumably favorable for germination in competitive habitats. Ants provided non-negligible dispersal services to myrmecochorous K. arvensis but also, to a lesser extent, of non-myrmecochorous P. lanceolata.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Evaluation of seed-dispersal services by ants at a temperate pasture: Results of direct observations in an ant suppression experiment

Popis výsledku anglicky

Ants disperse seeds of many plant species adapted to myrmecochory. While advantages of this ant–plant mutualism for myrmecochorous plants (myrmecochores) have been previously studied in temperate region mostly in forests, our study system was a pasture. Moreover, we used a unique combination of observing the effect of ant-activity suppression on ant dispersal and comparison of the contribution of ant and unassisted dispersal to the distance from mother plant. We established plots without and with ant-activity suppression (enclosures). We offered diaspores of a myrmecochorous (Knautia arvensis), and a non-myrmecochorous (Plantago lanceolata) species in a choice test and followed ants carrying diaspores during days and nights (focus of previous studies was on diurnal dispersal). We measured frequency and distances of ant dispersal and compared them with unassisted dispersal recorded using sticky trap method. The dispersal frequency was lower in enclosures (3.16 times). Ants strongly preferred diaspores of the myrmecochore to non-myrmecochore with 586 and 42 dispersal events, respectively (out of 6400 diaspores of each species offered). Ant dispersal resulted in more even and on average longer distances (maximum almost tenfold longer, 994 cm) in comparison to unassisted dispersal. Ant dispersal altered the distribution of distances of the myrmecochore from roughly symmetric for unassisted dispersal to positively skewed. Ants dispersed heavier diaspores farther. Ants dropped the majority of diaspores during the dispersal (which reduces clustering of seeds), while several (11%) were carried into anthills. Anthills are disturbed microsites presumably favorable for germination in competitive habitats. Ants provided non-negligible dispersal services to myrmecochorous K. arvensis but also, to a lesser extent, of non-myrmecochorous P. lanceolata.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10618 - Ecology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA23-05654S" target="_blank" >GA23-05654S: Faktory určující asymetrii kompetice ve společenstvech vytrvalých rostlin: všudypřítomné ale netestované</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Ecology and Evolution

ISSN

2045-7758

e-ISSN

2045-7758

Svazek periodika

13

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

10

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

12

Strana od-do

e10569

Kód UT WoS článku

001075290200001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85173776589