Ecological and evolutionary consequences of living in a defaunated world

By M. Galetti, R. Dirzo. 2013

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

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Citations in the corpus

Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation (2016, background): “…has become an increasingly visible concept in conservation science, initially associated with the motif of the empty forest (Redford 1992) and ultimately amplified by a series of directed studies and syntheses (Dirzo et al. 2014, Galetti & Dirzo 2013, McCauley et al. 2015b, Stoner et al. 2007).”
Vertebrate community composition and diversity declines along a defaunation gradient radiating from rural villages in Gabon (2017, background): “To understand the process of defaunation necessitates knowledge of how human activities progressively alter vertebrate community diversity and structure along a defaunation gradient (Galetti & Dirzo 2013).”
Linking plant phenology to conservation biology (2016, background): “Plant conservation is also constrained by growing defaunation scenarios in tropical ecosystems,with cascading consequences for seed dispersal and seedling establishment (Galetti and Dirzo, 2013).”
Rewilding: Science, Practice, and Politics (2015, background): “Overall, recent research supports the idea that animals perform several vital ecosystem services globally, and their absence would cause a reduction of these services (90, 91).”
Defaunation and biomass collapse of mammals in the largest Atlantic forest remnant (2017, background): “…ungulates may result in a reduced perturbation of the forest floor by trampling and seed predation and dispersal (Brocardo et al., 2013), which may affect plant composition by increasing the dominance of some species (Dirzo & Miranda, 1991; Wright, Hernand ez & Condit, 2007; Galetti & Dirzo, 2013).”
Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions and the functional loss of long‐distance seed‐dispersal services (2018, unknown): “The most vulnerable animals are often the largest (Galetti and Dirzo 2013, Dirzo et al.”