The Bushmeat Harvest Alters Seedling Banks by Favoring Lianas, Large Seeds, and Seeds Dispersed by Bats, Birds, and Wind

By Stephen J. Wright, Andrés Hernández, Richard S. Condit. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Conservation Biology for All (2010, background): “Consequently, plant species with seeds dispersed by vulnerable game species are less abundant where hunters are active, whereas species with seeds dispersed by abiotic means or by small frugivores ignored by hunters are more abundant in the seedling and sapling layers (Nuñez-Iturri and Howe 2007; Wr”
Differential Effects of Hunting on Pre‐Dispersal Seed Predation and Primary and Secondary Seed Removal of Two Neotropical Tree Species (2007, background): “…to be greatest for large-seeded trees, with these species disproportionately suffering decreased seed dispersal but also disproportionately benefiting from decreased seed predation, with the net result that they have higher recruitment in hunted forests (Dirzo et al. 2007, Wright et al. 2007).”
Hunting of Mammals Reduces Seed Removal and Dispersal of the Afrotropical Tree Antrocaryon klaineanum (Anacardiaceae) (2007, background): “…as empirical studies that make that connection are emerg- ing (e.g., Julliot 1997, Kinnaird 1998, Fragoso et al. 2003, Russo & Augspurger 2004), we are simultaneously finding that the loss of seed dispersal may reduce the viability of plant populations (NunezIturri & Howe 2007, Wright et al. 2007).”
Bushmeat Hunting Alters Recruitment of Large‐seeded Plant Species in Central Africa (2010, background): “Although many authors have investigated the consequences of hunting on forest vertebrates, it is only recently that the effects of hunting on forest regeneration have been explored (Wright 2003, Wright et al. 2007b).”
The Role of Mammals in Creating and Modifying Seedshadows in Tropical Forests and Some Possible Consequences of Their Elimination (2007, background): “Nevertheless, the papers compiled within this Special Section show that we are beginning to understand and document the effects of the removal of mammals on tropical forest regeneration (Wright et al. 2007).”
Ecosystem Services Provided by Birds (2008, background): “Through much of the neotropical rainforests, hunting of large vertebrates is likely to lead to increased dispersal and abundance of species dispersed by small birds, bats, and wind (Peres & Palacios 2007; Wright et al. 2007).”
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of living in a defaunated world (2013, background): “…at the plot level (a few m 2 ) (Beck et al., 2013; Brocardo et al., 2013; Dirzo and Miranda, 1991), can scale up to the local level (Harrison et al., 2013; Wright et al., 2007; Wright et al., 2000), up to a regional level (Steinmetz et al., 2013), and to an entire ecosystem (Jorge et al., 2013).”
Two‐step estimation for inhomogeneous spatial point processes (2009, background): “The three species have distinct modes of seed dispersal (Wright et al., 2007).”
Basin‐Wide Effects of Game Harvest on Vertebrate Population Densities in Amazonian Forests: Implications for Animal‐Mediated Seed Dispersal (2007, background): “Such changes may alter plant community composition, leading to declines in the recruitment of animal-dispersed plants and compensatory increases in abiotically dispersed species (Tabarelli et al. 1999, Jansen & Zuidema 2001, Cordeiro & Howe 2003, Wright et al. 2007).”
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): “Given the importance of some of these animals as seed predators and dispersers in tropical forests, it is likely that their demise provides one of the explanations for the already observed pattern of impoverishment of tree assemblages, as well as will exacerbate alterations in tree communities in th”
Experimental test of the impacts of feral hogs on forest dynamics and processes in the southeastern US (2009, unknown): “Two especially well known examples of this are tropical forests that have had their mammal fauna transformed by selective over hunting of large animal species that eat larger seeds (Wright et al., 2007) and long-term desert rodent exclosures in the southwest US in which exclusion of large granivores”
Co‐declining mammals and dung beetles: an impending ecological cascade (2009, background): “For example, if a decline in large game-vertebrates precipitates a decline in the number of excreted seeds (Wright et al. 2007), the requirement for secondary seed dispersal may also decrease.”
Liana Impacts on Carbon Cycling, Storage and Sequestration in Tropical Forests (2013, background): “…H€attenschwiller & K€orner 2003, Mohan et al. 2006, Zotz et al. 2006), changing climatic conditions, and seasonal droughts (Schnitzer 2005), increases in natural disturbances (Phillips & Gentry 1994, Phillips et al. 2004) and changes in forest land use (Laurance et al. 2001, Wright et al. 2007).”
CTFS‐ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change (2015, methodology): “For instance, core census data have been combined with data on lianas, vertebrates, seeds, seedlings, and reproductive func tional traits to link decreasing populations of seed dis persers to changing patterns of plant reproduction, liana abundance, and tree growth and survival (Wright & Calderon,”
Bushmeat and the Fate of Trees with Seeds Dispersed by Large Primates in a Lowland Rain Forest in Western Amazonia (2007, result): “Our results confirm that in areas were hunters exterminate most of the medium and large frugivores the seedling recruitment of abiotically dispersed and nongame animal-dispersed plants is favored (Wright et al. 2007, G. Nunez-Iturri, pers. obs.)”
Size‐Related Differential Seed Predation in a Heavily Defaunated Neotropical Rain Forest (2007, background): “A similar pattern of increased representation of large-seeded seedlings in other defaunated understories is reported by Wright et al. (2007).”