Published November 10, 2017 | Version v1

Pericarpial nectary-visiting ants do not provide fruit protection against pre-dispersal seed predators regardless of ant species composition and resource availability

  • 1. Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações – LEPI, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2. Departamento de Biologia animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 3. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

Description

 This dataset describes the number of flowers, fruits and seed set of Tocoyena formosa in branches exposed (control) and isolated (ant exclusion) from ants, as well as the visiting ants and seed predators reared from fruits collected from both treatments.

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