Zsofia Palfi

TL;DR: Investigating the extent to which dispersal services by ants are influenced by anthropogenic disturbances associated with roadwork activities in southern NSW, Australia shows that myrmecochory is an unevenly diffuse mutualism, where few ant species contributed to much of the dispersal of seeds.

TL;DR: The current study underlines the importance of differences between dominant ant species in shaping differentially ant communities even within the same restricted area and reveals a slight protective role of the territorial F. exsecta.

TL;DR: The rich composition of seed dispersing ants in roadside environments, and the effects of soil disturbances on these ant communities that are described, provide a key insight to important seed dispersal vectors occurring in fragmented rural landscapes.

TL;DR: The foraging strategy of the territorial red wood ant Formica pratensis that occurred inside a large polydomous system of another territorial ant species, F. exsecta supercolony was investigated to suggest that territorial species could co-occur with other territorials given certain plasticity in their behavior and small colony size.

TL;DR: The influence of soil disturbances associated with roadworks activity on ant–seed interactions in roadside environments in south-eastern Australia was found to be influenced by soil disturbance and roadside width, which was largely explained by individual species habitat and behavioural traits.