High seed dispersal rates in faunally intact tropical rain forest: theoretical and conservation implications

By Campbell O. Webb, D. Peart. 2001

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

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Seed dispersal by spider monkeys and its importance in the maintenance of neotropical rain-forest diversity (2006, background): “…1982), the study of animal-generated patterns of seed dispersal is key for understanding survival, recruitment, and population dynamics of tropical forest trees, as well as for the maintenance of tropical forest diversity (Cain et al. 2000, Schupp et al. 2002, Wang & Smith 2002, Webb & Peart 2001).”
Interacting effects of canopy gap, understory vegetation and leaf litter on tree seedling recruitment and composition in tropical secondary forests (2008, background): “, 2003), litter fall and litter cover (Aide, 1987; Molofsky and Augspurger, 1992; Hammond, 1995), seed dispersal (Howe and Schupp, 1985; Webb and Peart, 2001), seed and Forest Ecology and Management 255 (2008) 3716–3725”
Species–habitat associations in a Sri Lankan dipterocarp forest (2006, background): “The importance of seed-dispersal limitation for determining the distribution of species at small scales has been demonstrated in recent research in tropical forests (Dalling et al. 2002, Hubbell et al. 1999, Webb & Peart 2001).”
Basin‐Wide Effects of Game Harvest on Vertebrate Population Densities in Amazonian Forests: Implications for Animal‐Mediated Seed Dispersal (2007, background): “…seeds and seedlings that would not have been able to arrive and recruit at a given site well beyond the crowns of the nearest conspecific adults without the aid of vertebrate dispersers (e.g., Webb & Peart 2001, Indonesian Borneo, Terborgh & Nunez-Iturri 2006, Peru, Wang et al. 2007, Cameroon).”
Seed dispersal patterns produced by white‐faced monkeys: implications for the dispersal limitation of neotropical tree species (2003, background): “As a consequence, dispersal limitation may be a potentially important mechanism for the maintenance of diversity by greatly slowing the local extinction rate of competitively inferior species (Tilman 1994; Hurtt & Pacala 1995; Wright 2002; but see Webb & Peart 2001 ).”
Biased seed rain in forest edges: Evidence from the Brazilian Atlantic forest (2006, background): “…in seedling abundance driven by disruptions on seed rain receives support from the fact that allochthonous seed rain or actively dispersed seeds (i.e. seeds not simply dropped beneath the parent crown) can account for up to 68% of seedling recruitment of tree species (Webb and Peart, 2001).”
Tree species distributions across five habitats in a Bornean rain forest (2004, background): “Spatially-limited seed dispersal is often suggested as the process leading to species clumping (Condit et al. 2000) but the degree of dispersal limitation observed in among most Bornean tree species was not sufficient to maintain strong aggregations over many generations, given intact faunal communi”
Bushmeat and the Fate of Trees with Seeds Dispersed by Large Primates in a Lowland Rain Forest in Western Amazonia (2007, background): “Seed dispersal is an essential process for the successful recruitment of many tropical tree species, and for the maintenance of tropical plant diversity (Janzen 1970, Harms et al. 2000, Webb & Peart 2001, Wang & Smith 2002, Howe & Miriti 2004).”
Ecosystem Services Provided by Birds (2008, background): “Extrapolations of such disperser declines and extinctions suggest substantial loss of plant species richness (da Silva & Tabarelli 2000; Webb & Peart 2001).”