Titlebook: Ant-plant interactions in Australia; Ralf C. Buckley Book 1982 Dr W. Junk Publishers, The Hague 1982 Myrmecochory.plant.plants.seed.soil

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8348-9932-3nity..Predictive multiple regression equations for species diversity, species richness and the number of individual ants, on mined plots, account for 73%, 79% and 93% of each variance respectively. Independent variables used in the equations were: a floristic component (the absence of a group of pla

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Seed utilization by harvester ants,n of the seeds and fruit. All seeds taken into the colonies were eventually fed to the larvae. Food digested by the larvae was transmitted through the colony by trophallaxis (from larvae to the workers). The final stage larvae of . were found to act as a storage caste resulting in decreased foraging

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Ant-plant interactions in the Darling Botanical District of Western Australia,tors or which utilize seeds in nest construction are described. The ant-seed interactions of the two species which stand out as the most significant seed takers in the northern jarrah forest, . and . sp.1 (A.N.I.C.) are considered in detail. Aspects described include dietary preferences, foraging an

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Ant-epiphytes of Australia,here other epiphytes are rare, they are abundant, probably due to improved mineral nutrition from the symbiosis. In . transpirational water loss may be reduced by the symbiosis, enabling the plants to use drier habitats..Illustration and a key to Australian species are given together with nomenclatu