Sentences with phrase «dependent on the ants»
However, these benefits are not necessarily balanced because the ants can find alternative sources of food, whereas the larvae are completely dependent on the ants for protection.
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The plants are completely dependent on the ants to cultivate and fertilise their seeds.
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Furthermore, the ability to colonize new habitats itself implies that the host is not entirely dependent on the services provided by its ant partner.
These two mechanisms are so strongly dependent on the temperature difference between the ocean surface ant the atmosphere that the net influence on the skin temperature and on the net heat transfer between the ocean and the atmosphere is negligible.
After 6 years of research, scientists discovered that the life cycle of the butterfly was dependent on a particular species of ant called Myrmica sabuleti and this ant had disappeared.