Quantifying the impact of habitat disturbance on ecosystem function is critical to understanding and predicting the future of tropical forests. Many studies have examined post‐disturbance changes in animal traits related to mutualistic interactions with plants, but the effect of disturbance on plant traits in diverse forests has received much less attention. Focusing on two study regions in the eastern Brazilian Amazon, we used a trait‐based approach to examine how seed dispersal functionality within tropical plant communities changes across a landscape‐scale gradient of human modification, including both regenerating secondary forests and primary forests disturbed by burning and selective logging. Surveys of 230 forest plots recorded 26,53...
Agricultural activities such as crop production and cattle ranching are rapidly replacing forests wo...
In tropical forests, forest fragmentation that alters species interactions between plants and animal...
Pioneer trees with fleshy fruits are typically planted in restoration projects to attract frugivores...
1. Quantifying the impact of habitat disturbance on ecosystem function is critical to understanding ...
Quantifying the impact of habitat disturbance on ecosystem function is critical to understanding and...
Vertebrates perform key roles in ecosystem processes via trophic interactions with plants and insect...
peer reviewedSeed removal is a key component of seed dispersal and may be influenced by both landsca...
The seed bank is directly related to forest resilience because it contributes to the greatest number...
International audienceTropical rainforests worldwide are under increasing pressure from human activi...
Most of the world's remaining tropical forests have been affected by either selective logging, under...
1. The recovery capacity and the successional pathways of tropical forests after anthropogenic distu...
Tropical forests are the global cornerstone of biological diversity, and store 55% of the forest car...
Species-rich ecosystems as tropical forests are extremely vulnerable to anthropogenic destruction. M...
Hunting impacts tropical vertebrate populations, causing declines of species that function as seed d...
Selective logging in tropical forests is restricted to a few species, the so-called commercial speci...
Agricultural activities such as crop production and cattle ranching are rapidly replacing forests wo...
In tropical forests, forest fragmentation that alters species interactions between plants and animal...
Pioneer trees with fleshy fruits are typically planted in restoration projects to attract frugivores...
1. Quantifying the impact of habitat disturbance on ecosystem function is critical to understanding ...
Quantifying the impact of habitat disturbance on ecosystem function is critical to understanding and...
Vertebrates perform key roles in ecosystem processes via trophic interactions with plants and insect...
peer reviewedSeed removal is a key component of seed dispersal and may be influenced by both landsca...
The seed bank is directly related to forest resilience because it contributes to the greatest number...
International audienceTropical rainforests worldwide are under increasing pressure from human activi...
Most of the world's remaining tropical forests have been affected by either selective logging, under...
1. The recovery capacity and the successional pathways of tropical forests after anthropogenic distu...
Tropical forests are the global cornerstone of biological diversity, and store 55% of the forest car...
Species-rich ecosystems as tropical forests are extremely vulnerable to anthropogenic destruction. M...
Hunting impacts tropical vertebrate populations, causing declines of species that function as seed d...
Selective logging in tropical forests is restricted to a few species, the so-called commercial speci...
Agricultural activities such as crop production and cattle ranching are rapidly replacing forests wo...
In tropical forests, forest fragmentation that alters species interactions between plants and animal...
Pioneer trees with fleshy fruits are typically planted in restoration projects to attract frugivores...