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Cover Caption: Seed dispersal by hornets
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of integrative plant biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.734
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1744-7909
pISSN - 1672-9072
DOI - 10.1111/jipb.12608
Subject(s) - seed dispersal , biological dispersal , mutualism (biology) , biology , botany , ecology , population , demography , sociology
Seed dispersal by hornets is a rare dispersal mechanism in angiosperms. In this issue, Chen et al. (pp. 792–796) demonstrate that hornets are the primary and long‐distance seed dispersers in Stemona tuberosa , and ants act as the secondary dispersers and transport seeds to safe sites. This unique example of insect‐seed mutualism might be underestimated in myrmecochorous plants.