Vegetation of ant-hills in a mountain grassland: effects of mound history and of dominant ant species

Abstract

There was a highly significant concentration of myrmecochorous plants in a grassland patches immediately neighbouring the mounds - this is likely to be due to seeds deposited there by the workers from the nest after the elaiosomes had been consu

Keywords

• P. Kovář ants
• clonal growth form
• Lasius flavus
• myrmecochory
• permanent plots
• redundancy analysis
• soil disturbance