Biased seed rain in forest edges: Evidence from the Brazilian Atlantic forest

By Felipe P. L. Melo, R. Dirzo, M. Tabarelli. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Fragmentation drives tropical forest fragments to early successional states: A modelling study for Brazilian Atlantic forests (2011, background): “, 1998b, 2006), biased seed rain in fragments (Melo et al., 2006), increased turnover”
Habitat fragmentation alters the structure of dung beetle communities in the Atlantic Forest (2011, background): “As the Coimbra Forest supports a great number of shade-tolerant tree species across its core, undisturbed areas (Oliveira et al., 2004; Melo et al., 2006), we believe that this characteristic favours a greater variety of environmentally suitable habitats for many animal species, including dung beetl”
Forest fragmentation differentially affects seed dispersal of large and small-seeded tropical trees (2007, background): “In contrast, at forest edges, species with seeds smaller than 6 mm were more abundant in the seed rain (Melo et al., 2006) and small artificial fruits were visited by birds more frequently than in forest interiors (Galetti et al., 2003).”
Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world (2012, background): “Edges also influence seed banks and the quality, abundance and diversity of seed rain (Devlaeminck et al., 2005, Melo et al., 2006).”
Long-term erosion of tree reproductive trait diversity in edge-dominated Atlantic forest fragments (2009, background): “This exceptionally large forest patch still retains a full complement of ecological groups occurring in vast undisturbed tracts of Atlantic forest, such as large-seeded trees and medium-sized frugivorous vertebrates (see Pimentel and Tabarelli, 2004; Melo et al., 2006; Santos et al., 2008).”
Hunting reduces recruitment of primate-dispersed trees in Amazonian Peru (2008, background): “…as logging, forest fragmentation, interference from domestic animals, and other factors have multiple effects on tree recruitment that may be independent of hunting (Benitez-Malvido, 1998; Laurance, 2005; Fleury and Galetti, 2006; Lopes de Melo et al., 2006; Huerta, 2007; Whiteman et al., 2007).”
The 'few winners and many losers' paradigm revisited: Emerging prospects for tropical forest biodiversity (2012, background): “These large-girthed emergent trees are disproportionately prevalent among the gradually declining old-growth flora (Melo et al., 2006; Girão et al., 2007; Lopes et al., 2009; Tabarelli et al., 2010a).”
Forest fragmentation drives Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil to biotic homogenization (2011, methodology): “All procedures, criteria, and categories used to assign tree species within ecological groups have been adopted by previous studies (Silva & Tabarelli, 2000; Tabarelli et al., 2003; Melo et al., 2006; Santos et al., 2008).”