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  title info:
    title: Seed dispersal by ants in a deciduous forest ecosystem
    sub title: mechanisms, strategies, adaptations
  name:
    name part: Gorb, Elena
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Gorb, Stanislav
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 225 pages)
  abstract: Countless ants transport and deposit seeds and thereby influence the survival, death, and evolution of many plant species. In higher plants, seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory) has appeared many times independently in different lineages. More than 3000 plant species are known to utilize ant assistance to be planted. Myrmecochory is a very interesting and rather enigmatic form of mutualistic ant-plant associations. This phenomenon is extremely complex, because there are hundreds of ant species connected with hundreds of plant species. This book effectively combines a thorough approach to investigating morphological and physiological adaptations of plants with elegant field experiments on the behaviour of ants. This monograph is a first attempt at collecting information about morphology, ecology and phenology of ants and plants from one ecosystem. The book gives readers a panoramic view of the hidden, poorly-known interrelations not only between pairs of ants and plant species, but also between species communities in the ecosystem. The authors have considered not just one aspect of animal-plant relationships, but have tried to show them in all their complexity. Some aspects of the ant-plant interactions described in the book may be of interest to botanists, others to zoologists or ecologists, but the entire work is an excellent example of the marriage of these biological disciplines.
  note: by Elena Gorb, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine, Stanislav Gorb, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kyiv, Ukraine.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Seeds
    topic: Dispersal
  subject:
    topic: Ants
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Forest ecology
  subject:
    topic: Insect-plant relationships
  subject:
    topic: Ants
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Forest ecology
  subject:
    topic: Insect-plant relationships
  subject:
    topic: Seeds
    topic: Dispersal
  classification: QK929 .G67 2003eb
  classification: 581.467
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Seed dispersal by ants in a deciduous forest ecosystem
    name:
      name part: Gorb, Elena.
    identifier: (OCoLC)751510889
  identifier: 9789401701730 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401701733 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9789048163175
  identifier: 904816317X
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: GW5XE
    record creation date: 131031
    record change date: 20260420201239.6
    record identifier: in00003542954
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng