ArticlePeerJ2018
Ants contribute to pollination but not to reproduction in a rare calcareous grassland forb.
Article in PeerJ, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pollination ecology and breeding system of Justicia gendarussa Burm. f. (Acanthaceae): first report of fruit set through supplementary obligatory-xenogamous pollination.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2025Article
- Off-target drift of the herbicide dicamba disrupts plant-pollinator interactions via novel pathways.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Insect-flower interactions, ecosystem functions, and restoration ecology in the northern Sahel: current knowledge and perspectives.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Ants are more than just curious bystanders to some flowers-they act as significant pollinators.Frontiers in insect science · 2023Review
- A Systematic Review onPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Shade Avoidance and Light Foraging of a Clonal Woody Species,Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Pollen adaptation to ant pollination: a case study from the Proteaceae.Annals of botany · 2020Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The number of plants pollinated by ants is surprisingly low given the abundance of ants and the fact that they are common visitors of angiosperms. Generally ants are considered as nectar robbers that do not provide pollination service. We studied the pollination system of the endangered dry grassland forb
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