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SUBMITTER: Ballantyne G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3430612 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ballantyne Gavin G Willmer Pat P
PloS one 20120829 8
As flower visitors, ants rarely benefit a plant. They are poor pollinators, and can also disrupt pollination by deterring other flower visitors, or by stealing nectar. Some plant species therefore possess floral ant-repelling traits. But why do particular species have such traits when others do not? In a dry forest in Costa Rica, of 49 plant species around a third were ant-repellent at very close proximity to a common generalist ant species, usually via repellent pollen. Repellence was positivel ...[more]