Template:Did you know nominations/Paranomus abrotanifolius


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:27, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Paranomus abrotanifolius

 * ... that the seeds of the Bredasdorp sceptre (pictured) are carried underground by ants? Source
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Xenoturbella bocki

Created by Casliber (talk) and Dwergenpaartje (talk). Nominated by Casliber (talk) at 11:35, 19 January 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Page is new enough and long enough. I think you want to say "up to ... high" rather than "of up to ... high". The biome isn't mentioned in the source, and neither is much of the environment or the relation to fire. "The ovary" should be lowercase. I'll admit that source #3 is so technical that I can barely understand it. Hook is moderately interested, sourced, identifiable in the source and mentioned in the article. QPQ is basic but fine, didn't notice any copyvio or plagiarism and the tools don't show anything of this sort either. Image seems fine as well. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:21, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * the 'biome' is unnecessary really and the ovary has been lowercased. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:49, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * That "periodic wildfires that occur in fynbos" sentence seems to be still unsupported. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:27, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Rebelo et al. uses the word "fire" 361 times. One quote on page 79 says: "... Ant seed dispersal is found in 15% of fynbos species [...], of almost all characteristic and dominant plant families (although it is very rare in Ericaceae), and in all growth forms. In many cases, wind-dispersed species in neighbouring vegetation types have myrmecochorous congeners in fynbos [...]. These species tend to produce small or large nuts with an ant-fruit or elaiosome. The fruit are buried by indigenous ants in their nests, where they remain dormant until after a fire". On page 80 it elabotares: "Myrmecochory is almost nonexistent in renosterveld and adjacent biomes, and is usually attributed to the need to rapidly store seeds in predator-free, fire-safe refugia [...]. Page 83 says: "Myrmecochorous [...] species appear to benefit most from very hot fires." Seed recruitment has not been studied specifically for any Paranomus species, but it has for two other myrmecochorous Proteaceae. The summary says: "Using the extent of canopy damage as a measure of fire intensity, we sampled seedling regeneration of two myrmecochorous species of Proteaceae, Leucospermum conocarpodendron and Mimetes fimbriifolius, over low and high fire intensities in a burnt area on the Cape Peninsula. The results show that seedling recruitment is strongly and positively related to local fire intensity". Dwergenpaartje (talk) 15:52, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
 * The ResearchGate text seems good enough for explaining "fynbos", at least. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 17:35, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
 * One more quote, before I give up. Page 56 of Rebello et al. reads: "It is mainly the action of regular fire that excludes forest and allows fynbos to dominate the landscape". Dwergenpaartje (talk) 20:33, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg given the overly dense text in source #3. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 21:27, 21 January 2018 (UTC)