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Species-Specific Seed Dispersal in an Obligate Ant-Plant Mutualism

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Ant garden in southeast Perú.

This nest houses the ants Camponotus femoratus and Crematogaster levior and the epiphytic plants Peperomia macrostachya and Codonanthe uleana Fritsch (purple fruit). Such gardens are established when ants embed seeds of AG epiphytes into their arboreal carton nests.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004335.g001