Functional Extinction of Birds Drives Rapid Evolutionary Changes in Seed Size

By M. Galetti, R. Guevara, M. C. Côrtes, R. Fadini, Sandro Von Matter, Abraão B. Leite, Fábio Labecca, T. Ribeiro, C. Carvalho, R. Collevatti and 5 more. Science, 2013

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

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Ecological and evolutionary consequences of living in a defaunated world (2013, background): “The adoption of a common defaunation index may be useful in this regard (Giacomini and Galetti, 2013).”
Habitat fragmentation narrows the distribution of avian functional traits associated with seed dispersal in tropical forest (2018, background): “guans, toucans, cotingas), thereby suffering reduced recruitment or strong selection on seed size (Wotton and Kelly, 2011; Galetti et al., 2013), potentially leading to local extinction over longer timeframes.”
What is long‐distance dispersal? And a taxonomy of dispersal events (2017, background): “Both components of this sort of diplochorous (vander Wall & Longland 2004) dispersal system are very frequent in fleshy-fruited plants with diversified frugivore assemblages (Galetti et al. 2013).”
The dispersal syndrome hypothesis: How animals shaped fruit traits, and how they did not (2020, background): “…effect of bird dispersal on fruit size has been demonstrated in a natural experiment in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest, where the removal of large frugivorous birds has led to a significant decrease in the seed size of a local palm Euterpe edulis within only a few decades (Galetti et al., 2013).”
The restoration of tropical seed dispersal networks (2015, neutral): “That said, large frugivores are the key dispersers of large-fruited plant species as they have a larger gape (e.g. Galetti et al. 2013).”
Macroecological trends in nestedness and modularity of seed-dispersal networks: human impact matters (2015, neutral): “patterns of seed dispersal (Galetti et al., 2013).”
Overfishing disrupts an ancient mutualism between frugivorous fishes and plants in Neotropical wetlands (2015, background): “extinction of large frugivores can even induce rapid evolutionary changes in seed size (Galetti et al., 2013).”
Historical legacies accumulate to shape future biodiversity in an era of rapid global change (2015, background): “The possible additional delays before these subsequent accumulating effects become apparent are much less well understood (e.g. Galloway et al., 2003; Galetti et al., 2013; Svenning & Sandel, 2013).”
Plant dispersal syndromes are unreliable, especially for predicting zoochory and long‐distance dispersal (2021, background): “Frugivores exert important selection pressure on fruit morphology (Galetti et al. 2013), and the selection pressure exerted on plant diaspores by non-classical zoochory should be investigated.”