Interactions between ants and plants during vegetation succession in the abandoned ore-washery sedimentation basin in Chvaletice

Abstract

Seeds of 20 plant species, both myrmecochorous and non-myrmecochorous, were collected in different amounts by three different dominant ant species in the abandoned sedimentation basin.

Keywords

• dispersal of plant seeds
• myrmecochory
• vegetation succession
• ore-washery deposit
• extreme conditions
• substrate surface
• ants
• Lasius niger
• Tetramorium caespitum
• Formica rufibarbis