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

By R. Dirzo, E. Mendoza, Patricia A. Ortiz. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Hunting reduces recruitment of primate-dispersed trees in Amazonian Peru (2008, background): “A classic comparison of the Los Tuxtlas understory with that of the Lacandon forest in Mexico suggests that terrestrial mammals maintain tree diversity through suppression of aggressive species, which become dominant if hunting eliminates the mammals (Dirzo and Miranda, 1991; Dirzo et al., 2007).”
Differential Responses to Hunting in Two Sympatric Species of Brocket Deer (Mazama americana and M. nana) (2008, unknown): “Other studies have detected a negative effect of hunting on brocket deer abundance (Hill et al. 1997; Carrillo et al. 2000; Cullen et al. 2000, 2001; Lopes & Ferrari 2000; Dirzo et al. 2007; Nuñez-Iturri & Howe 2007).”
Differential Effects of Hunting on Pre‐Dispersal Seed Predation and Primary and Secondary Seed Removal of Two Neotropical Tree Species (2007, background): “This decrease is expected to have greater effects on predation of large-seeded species, which are typically preferred by larger mammals (Dirzo et al. 2007).”
The Role of Mammals in Creating and Modifying Seedshadows in Tropical Forests and Some Possible Consequences of Their Elimination (2007, background): “As densities of these species continue to be reduced, smaller rodents that tend to be principally seed predators may become the dominant rodents affecting seeds in Neotropical forests (Wright et al. 2000, DeMattia et al. 2004, Dirzo et al. 2007).”
The Plight of Large Animals in Tropical Forests and the Consequences for Plant Regeneration (2007, background): “Dirzo et al. (2007) use a series of experiments to evaluate all components of their hypothesis.”
Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation (2016, background): “Similarly, the loss of megafaunal herbivores tends to cause systematic increases in abundance of small rodent herbivores and granivores (Dirzo et al. 2007, McCauley et al. 2006).”
The Bushmeat Harvest Alters Seedling Banks by Favoring Lianas, Large Seeds, and Seeds Dispersed by Bats, Birds, and Wind (2007, background): “We hypothesize that hunters favor large seeds by removing large vertebrate seed predators and increasing survival rates for large seeds (Dirzo et al. 2007).”
Emptying the Forest: Hunting and the Extirpation of Wildlife from Tropical Nature Reserves (2011, background): “…drastically alter several other important ecological processes, including seed predation (Roldán and Simonetti 2001, Beckman and Muller-Landau 2007, Dirzo et al. 2007, Wright et al. 2007b), seedling mortality (Roldán and Simonetti 2001, Nuñez-Iturri et al. 2008), nest predation (Posa et al. 2007),…”
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of living in a defaunated world (2013, background): “…Onderdonk, 1998; Farwig and Berens, 2012; Jordano et al., 2002), leading to changes in pre-dispersal predation of seeds, in seed rain shadows, in turn leading to tweaked post-dispersal predation patterns, which co-vary with seed size and differential recruitment (Dirzo et al., 2007; Kurten, 2013).”