Long-term erosion of tree reproductive trait diversity in edge-dominated Atlantic forest fragments

By A. Lopes, L. C. Girão, Bráulio A. Santos, C. A. Peres, M. Tabarelli. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being (2016, unknown): “The same approach should benefit pollinators and crop pollination in urban areas, although both agricultural and urban landscapes providing larger patches of natural habitat will probably increase regional pollinator diversity 116,117 .”
Contrasting taxonomic and functional responses of a tropical tree community to selective logging (2012, background): “The potential cascading results to other trophic levels might be illustrated by an analysis of reproductive traits perti- nent to animal communities (e.g. Lopes et al. 2009).”
Effects of landscape configuration and composition on phylogenetic diversity of trees in a highly fragmented tropical forest (2017, background): “Because edge effects reduce species richness, community dissimilarity (Laurance et al. 2006) and important functional groups (Lopes et al. 2009; Magnago et al. 2014), the next individual sampled is likely a close relative of at least one kind of individual already sampled (Vamosi et al. 2009).”
The 'few winners and many losers' paradigm revisited: Emerging prospects for tropical forest biodiversity (2012, background): “The second wave of extinctions includes the extirpation of faunal attendants of the declining old-growth flora, such as large frugivorous vertebrates (Silva and Pontes, 2008), specialized pollinators (Girão et al., 2007; Lopes et al., 2009), and specialist herbivores (Arnold and Asquith, 2002; Wirth”
Forest fragmentation drives Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil to biotic homogenization (2011, background): “…diversity of tree assemblages, particularly of pollination systems and other functional groups based on reproductive traits (Girão et al., 2007; Lopes et al., 2009); and (3) taxonomic and functional convergence of tree assemblages across edge-affected habitats (Tabarelli et al., 2008; Aguiar…”
The challenge of maintaining Atlantic forest biodiversity: A multi-taxa conservation assessment of specialist and generalist species in an agro-forestry mosaic in southern Bahia (2009, background): “, 2007), and the loss of pollinators or dispersers (Silva and Tabarelli, 2000; Tabarelli et al., 2004; Laurance et al., 2006; Lopes et al., 2009).”
Time-lag in biological responses to landscape changes in a highly dynamic Atlantic forest region (2009, unknown): “This is the case in NE Brazil, where an impoverishment in tree assemblages and functional attributes such as reproductive traits and pollination systems has been observed (Santos et al., 2007; Lopes et al., 2009).”
How well do we understand landscape effects on pollinators and pollination services (2012, methodology): “Therefore, in the present study, landscape is defined as ‘a heterogeneous mosaic formed by interactive units, given that this heterogeneity exists for at least one factor, according to one observer and at a given scale of observation’ (Metzger 2001).”
Functional attributes change but functional richness is unchanged after fragmentation of Brazilian Atlantic forests (2014, background): “Across all fragment sizes, we found lower species richness at fragment edges than interiors, a pattern found in other fragments of Brazilian Atlantic forest (Oliveira, Grillo & Tabarelli 2004; Lopes et al. 2009) and in other tropical regions (Saunders, Hobbs & Margules 1991).”
Habitat fragmentation alters the structure of dung beetle communities in the Atlantic Forest (2011, background): “The Serra Grande landscape is therefore a useful landscape for assessing persistent and long-term effects of habitat loss and fragmentation as reflected by a number of published studies (e.g., Oliveira et al., 2004; Girão et al., 2007; Santos et al., 2008; Lopes et al., 2009).”
Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world (2012, background): “…a landscape composed of pastures, monoculture plantations and a few small native forest fragments), tree species and reproductive trait diversity are lost (Lopes et al., 2009; Oliveira et al., 2008), whereas early successional trees can proliferate in small forest remnants (Tabarelli et al., 2008).”
Conservation issues in the Brazilian Atlantic forest (2009, background): “Lopes et al. (2009) predict that in highly fragmented landscapes, there will be a huge composition and functional impoverishment in tree assemblages, with a reduced diversity of pollination systems, a higher abundance of reproductive traits associated with pollination by generalist diurnal vectors,…”
What do we know about the effects of landscape changes on plant–pollinator interaction networks? (2013, unknown): “…and number of pollen donors available in landscapes may also cause disruption of pollination processes (Fuchs et al., 2003; Uchiyama et al., 2009), which changes the selection pressures of ﬂoral traits, modifying the set of reproductive strategies of whole plant communities (Lopes et al., 2009).”