Researching the role of ants in dispersing wildflowers
Carmela Buono SEBS ‘2016 is now a graduate student at SUNY Binghamton. She is using the RU EcoPreserve as a study site for her research on ants’ role in seed dispersal. Below is a short write-up of her work. Fig 1. Ant of genus Aphaenogaster Fig 2. Experimental ant box “Most contemporary North American eastern deciduous forests are “secondary” or previously cleared for agriculture, that have…