SynthesisScientific reports2016
Pollination and seed dispersal are the most threatened processes of plant regeneration.
Synthesis in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.
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- Location-Scale Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression as a Tool to Capture Large-Scale Changes in Biological and Methodological Heterogeneity: A Spotlight on Heteroscedasticity.Global change biology · 2025Article
- The effectiveness of pollinators and their foraging behavior on Neustanthus phaseoloides (Fabaceae).Die Naturwissenschaften · 2025Article
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- Behavioural changes in the city: The common black garden ant defends aphids more aggressively in urban environments.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
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- A global systematic review of frugivorous animal tracking studies and the estimation of seed dispersal distances.Ecology and evolution · 2023Review
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- Hoverflies provide pollination and biological pest control in greenhouse-grown horticultural crops.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Effects of habitat disturbance on the reproductive ecology of Arum pictum ssp. sagittifolium: from pollination to seedling recruitment.Annals of botany · 2022Article
- Species, taxonomic, and functional group diversities of terrestrial mammals at risk under climate change and land-use/cover change scenarios in Mexico.Global change biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Plant regeneration is essential for maintaining forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, which are globally threatened by human disturbance. Here we present the first integrative meta-analysis on how forest disturbance affects multiple ecological processes of plant regeneration including pollination, seed dispersal, seed predation, recruitment and herbivory. We analysed 408 pairwise comparisons of these processes between near-natural and disturbed forests. Human impacts overall reduced plant regeneration. Importantly, only processes early in the regeneration cycle that often depend on plant-animal interactions, i.e. pollination and seed dispersal, were negatively affected. Later processes, i.e. seed predation, recruitment and herbivory, showed overall no significant response to human disturbance. Conserving pollination and seed dispersal, including the animals that provide these services to plants, should become a priority in forest conservation efforts globally.
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