myrmecochorous造句

• Much remains to be understood about the selective advantages conferred upon myrmecochorous ants.
• Ants, however, do not appear to form obligate relationships with myrmecochorous plants.
• Myrmecochorous plants are also capable of invading ecosystems.
• Three commonly cited advantages to myrmecochorous plants are increased dispersal distance, directed dispersal, and seed predator avoidance.
• Similarly, the spread of myrmecochorous invaders may be inhibited by limitations in the ranges of native ant populations.
• Trout lily is a myrmecochorous plant, meaning ants help to disperse the seeds and reduce predation of the seeds.
• Myrmecochorous plants may benefit when ants disperse seeds to nutrient-rich or protected nest . effectively directing the dispersal of seeds to desirable sites.
• As such, the relatively modest distances ants transport seeds are likely to be more advantageous for myrmecochorous shrubs, forbs, and other plants of small stature.
• Cheating is also inhibited by ecological interactions external to the myrmecochorous interaction; simple models suggest that predation exerts a stabilizing influence on a mutualism such as myrmecochory.
• Myrmecochorous plants can also cheat, either by producing diaspores with non-removable elaiosomes or by simulating the presence of a non-existent reward with chemical cues.
• Estimates for the true biodiversity of myrmecochorous plants range from 11, 000 to as high as 23, 000 species worldwide, or approximately 5 % of all flowering plant species.
• In addition, phylogenetic comparison of myrmecochorous plant groups reveal that more than half of the lineages in which myrmecochory evolved are more species rich than their non-myrmecochorous sister groups.
• In addition, phylogenetic comparison of myrmecochorous plant groups reveal that more than half of the lineages in which myrmecochory evolved are more species rich than their non-myrmecochorous sister groups.
• Myrmecochorous plants are most frequent in the fynbos vegetation of the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, the kwongan vegetation and other dry habitat types of Australia, dry forests and grasslands of the Mediterranean region and northern temperate forests of western Eurasia and eastern North America, where up to 30 40 % of understorey herbs are myrmecochorous.
• Myrmecochorous plants are most frequent in the fynbos vegetation of the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, the kwongan vegetation and other dry habitat types of Australia, dry forests and grasslands of the Mediterranean region and northern temperate forests of western Eurasia and eastern North America, where up to 30 40 % of understorey herbs are myrmecochorous.