Size and lipid content of nonmyrmecochorous diaspores: effects on the interaction with litter-foraging ants in the Atlantic rain forest of Brazil

By M. A. Pizo, P. Oliveira. Plant Ecology, 2001

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Ants affect the distribution and performance of seedlings of Clusia criuva, a primarily bird‐dispersed rain forest tree (2002, methodology): “The relative importance of primary and secondary seed dispersal has been assessed for a Malagasy tree that presents an unusually simple dispersal system (primary and secondary seed dispersal are each effectively carried out by a single species, Bohning-Gaese et al. 1999) but the diverse assemblages ”
Interactions between ants, fruits and seeds in a restinga forest in south-eastern Brazil (2003, background): “Although large attines (Atta, Acromyrmex) apparently are not important seed vectors in the Atlantic coastal forests (Passos & Oliveira 2002, Pizo & Oliveira 2000, 2001), they may affect seed biology in other tropical forests (Dalling & Wirth 1999, Farji-Brener & Medina 2000, Moutinho 1998) and…”
Choosing benefits or partners: a review of the evidence for the evolution of myrmecochory (2006, background): “An association between variation in elaiosome size and in elaiosome chemistry and variation in seed removal rates has been shown by many studies (Hughes and Westoby 1992a, Lanza et al. 1992, Gorb and Gorb 1995, Mark and Olesen 1996, Pizo and Oliveira 2001, Peters et al. 2003).”