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Ep. 419 - Ant Dispersal Revisited

In Defense of Plants Podcast

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The Effects of Ants on Pollination

In eastern North America, it's really members of the Afenagaster genus. They disperse about 75% of seeds that are out there. If you took every other ant in the eastern deciduous forest, put a phenagaster on the other, you'd have more phenagaster. That is mind blowing. Wow, talk about an underrated group of organisms. So they don't get noticed.

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