Ants disperse seeds farther in habitat patches with corridors

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dc.contributor.authorBurt, Melissa A.en
dc.contributor.authorResasco, Julianen
dc.contributor.authorHaddad, Nick M.en
dc.contributor.authorWhitehead, Susan R.en
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-17T15:05:49Zen
dc.date.available2023-04-17T15:05:49Zen
dc.date.issued2022-12en
dc.description.abstractHabitat 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 landscape experiment, we investigated the consequences of connectivity and edge effects for seed dispersal by ants. We found that ants dispersed seeds farther in habitat patches connected by corridors, but only in patch centers. We did not see an effect on the total number of seeds moved or the rate ants detected seeds. Furthermore, we did not see any differences in ant community composition across patch types, suggesting that shifts in ant behavior or other factors increased ant seed dispersal in patches connected by corridors. Long-distance seed dispersal by ants that requires an accumulation of short-distance dispersal events over generations may be an underappreciated mechanism through which corridors increase plant diversity.en
dc.description.notesU.S. National Science Foundation,Grant/Award Numbers: DEB-1912729,DEB-1913501; USDA Forest Service andDepartment of Energy at the SavannahRiver Site, Grant/Award Number:DE-AI09-00SR22188; U.S. NationalScience Foundation Graduate ResearchFellowship Programen
dc.description.sponsorshipU.S. National Science Foundation [DEB-1912729, DEB-1913501]; USDA Forest Service and Department of Energy at the SavannahRiver Site [DE-AI09-00SR22188]; U .S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Programen
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4324en
dc.identifier.issue12en
dc.identifier.othere4324en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/114522en
dc.identifier.volume13en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWileyen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectantsen
dc.subjectconnectivityen
dc.subjectcorridorsen
dc.subjectedge effectsen
dc.subjectfragmentationen
dc.subjectmyrmecochoryen
dc.subjectseed dispersalen
dc.titleAnts disperse seeds farther in habitat patches with corridorsen
dc.title.serialEcosphereen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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