Awareness of the natural ecological processes provided by organisms that benefit human
well‐being has significantly progressed towards the goal of making conservation a …

The tropical ginger genus Amomum (Zingiberaceae) has always posed challenges for
classification based on morphological characters. Previous molecular phylogenetic studies …

Curcuma stahlianthoides, a new species of Curcuma subg. Hitcheniopsis (Zingiberaceae:
Zingiberoideae) from northeastern Thailand is described and illustrated here. The flower …

Background and Aims A targeted enrichment NGS approach was used to construct the
phylogeny of Amomum Roxb.(Zingiberaceae). Phylogenies based on hundreds of nuclear …

Plant secondary metabolites are key mechanistic drivers of species interactions. These
metabolites have primarily been studied for their role in defense, but they can also have …

The ecology of fear refers to the non-fatal cost that predators and parasites impose on prey
populations. These non-consumptive effects (NCEs) can influence animal–plant …

Among invertebrates, ants are the most abundant and probably most important seed
dispersers in both temperate and tropical environments. Crickets, also abundant in tropical …

Multiple-frugivore systems are common in deciduous forest communities, but multiple
dispersal has rarely been examined from the perspective of plant fitness. We compare the …

Myrmecochory (seed dispersal by ants) differs from other dispersal systems in a series of
advantages offered by the ants to the plants. Here, seed fate, from fruit to germination, of the …

Seed dispersal by ants plays a major role globally in plant dynamics for many angiosperms
and can be influenced by multiple factors. One of those factors is competition between ants …