Ants disperse seeds farther in habitat patches with corridors

Abstract Habitat fragmentation impacts ecosystems worldwide through habitat loss, reduced connectivity, and edge effects. Yet, these landscape factors are often confounded, leaving much to be investigated about their relative effects, especially on species interactions. In a experiment, we the consequences of connectivity effects for seed dispersal by ants. We found that ants dispersed seeds farther in patches connected corridors, but only patch centers. did not see an effect total number moved or rate detected seeds. Furthermore, any differences ant community composition across types, suggesting shifts behavior other increased corridors. Long‐distance requires accumulation short‐distance events over generations may underappreciated mechanism which corridors increase plant diversity.