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Cascading effects of contemporaneous defaunation on tropical forest communities

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Using Janzen–Connell to predict the consequences of defaunation and other disturbances of tropical forests

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Drivers and spatial patterns of avian defaunation in tropical forests

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Defaunation of Large-Bodied Frugivores Reduces Carbon Storage in a Tropical Forest of Southeast Asia

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Seed dispersal strategies and the threat of defaunation in a Congo forest

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Size-Related Differential Seed Predation in a Heavily Defaunated Neotropical Rain Forest

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Fungi and Insects Compensate for Lost Vertebrate Seed Predation in an Experimentally Defaunated Tropical Forest

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Defaunation disrupts key plant-animal interactions such as seed dispersal and seed predation, triggering cascading effects on plant regeneration, species composition, and carbon storage. While past studies emphasize the negative consequences of losing vertebrate seed dispersers and predators, it remains unclear whether other organisms like fungi and insects can compensate for these losses. This study investigates whether non-vertebrate predators offset the decline of large vertebrate seed predators in a tropical rainforest.

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