ArticleScience advances2019
Defaunation precipitates the extinction of evolutionarily distinct interactions in the Anthropocene.
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- Extinction of threatened vertebrates will lead to idiosyncratic changes in functional diversity across the world.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Frugivore-fruit size relationships between palms and mammals reveal past and future defaunation impacts.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Community context for mechanisms of disease dilution: insights from linking epidemiology and plant-soil feedback theory.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2020Review
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Abstract
Species on Earth are interconnected with each other through ecological interactions. Defaunation can erode those connections, yet we lack evolutionary predictions about the consequences of losing interactions in human-modified ecosystems. We quantified the fate of the evolutionary history of avian-seed dispersal interactions across tropical forest fragments by combining the evolutionary distinctness of the pairwise-partner species, a proxy to their unique functional features. Both large-seeded plant and large-bodied bird species showed the highest evolutionary distinctness. We estimate a loss of 3.5 to 4.7 × 10
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