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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2019

The demography of a resource specialist in the tropics: Cecropia trees and the fitness of three-toed sloths.

Mario F Garcés-Restrepo, M Zachariah Peery, Jonathan N Pauli

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. On the move: sloths and their epibionts as model mobile ecosystems.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Mario F Garcés-RestrepoDepartment of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706 , USA.
M Zachariah PeeryDepartment of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706 , USA.
Jonathan N PauliDepartment of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706 , USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Resource specialists persist in a narrow range of resources. Consequently, the abundance of key resources should drive vital rates, individual fitness, and population viability. While Neotropical forests feature both high levels of biodiversity and numbers of specialist species, no studies have directly evaluated how the variation of key resources affects the fitness of a tropical specialist. Here, we quantified the effect of key tree species density and forest cover on the fitness of three-toed sloths ( Bradypus variegatus), an arboreal folivore strongly associated with Cecropia trees in Costa Rica, using a multi-year demographic, genetic, and space-use dataset. We found that the density of Cecropia trees was strongly and positively related to both adult survival and reproductive output. A matrix model parametrized with Cecropia-demography relationships suggested positive growth of sloth populations, even at low densities of Cecropia (0.7 trees ha

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ForestsLongevityReproductionAnimalsCecropia PlantCosta RicaDemographyGenetic FitnessModels, BiologicalPopulation DensitySlothsTreesTropical Climateagro-ecosystemarboreal folivoresCentral Americapopulation growth rateXenarthra

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PMID30963880
PMCPMC6367172

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