ArticleScientific reports2017
Synergistic effects of seed disperser and predator loss on recruitment success and long-term consequences for carbon stocks in tropical rainforests.
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- Frugivory and seed dispersal in a hyperdiverse plant clade and its role as a keystone resource for the Neotropical fauna.Annals of botany · 2021Pooled it
- Quantifying the impacts of defaunation on natural forest regeneration in a global meta-analysis.Nature communications · 2019Pooled it
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- Cascading Effects of Overhunting on the Functional Tree Composition of Amazonian Forests.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Effect of primate protection on threatened and endemic vertebrates, plants, ecosystem services, and future climate refugia.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Article
- Defaunation Increases Clustering and Fine-Scale Spatial Genetic Structure in a Small-Seeded Palm Despite Remaining Small-Bodied Frugivores.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Ecological function maintained despite mesomammal declines.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Potential role in seed dispersal revealed by experimental trials with captive southern muriquis (Brachyteles arachnoides).Primates; journal of primatology · 2020Article
- Mass-abundance scaling in avian communities is maintained after tropical selective logging.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Defaunation of large-bodied frugivores reduces carbon storage in a tropical forest of Southeast Asia.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Competition, seed dispersal and hunting: what drives germination and seedling survival in an Afrotropical forest?AoB PLANTS · 2019Article
- Trophic rewilding as a climate change mitigation strategy?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
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Abstract
The extinction of large frugivores has consequences for the recruitment of large-seeded plants with potential lasting effects on carbon storage in tropical rainforests. However, previous studies relating frugivore defaunation to changes in carbon storage ignore potential compensation by redundant frugivores and the effects of seed predators on plant recruitment. Based on empirical data of the recruitment success of a large-seeded hardwood tree species (Cryptocarya mandioccana, Lauraceae) across a defaunation gradient of seed dispersers and predators, we show that defaunation increases both seed dispersal limitation and seed predation. Depending on the level of seed predator loss, plant recruitment is reduced by 70.7-94.9% as a result of the loss of seed dispersers. The loss of large seed predators increases the net seed mortality by 7-30% due to the increased abundance of small granivorous rodents. The loss of large seed dispersers can be buffered by the compensatory effects of smaller frugivores in seed removal, but it is not sufficient to prevent a decrease in plant recruitment. We show that the conservation of both seed predators and dispersers is necessary for the recruitment of large-seeded plants. Since these plants contribute substantially to carbon stocks, defaunation can jeopardize the maintenance of tropical forest carbon storage.
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