The Plight of Large Animals in Tropical Forests and the Consequences for Plant Regeneration

By S. J. Wright, K. Stoner, N. Beckman, Richard T. Corlett, R. Dirzo, H. Muller‐Landau, Gabriela Nuñez-Iturri, C. A. Peres, Benjamin C. Wang. 2007

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We introduce a special section that addresses the bushmeat or wild meat crisis, its direct impact on game species, and its indirect impact on plants in tropical forests.

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

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Small Tent‐Roosting Bats Promote Dispersal of Large‐Seeded Plants in a Neotropical Forest (2009, background): “Dispersal of large seeds by bats can assume critical importance for plant dynamics in defaunated forest fragments and large tracts of forests from where large frugivores have been depleted or extirpated due to hunting or loss of habitat (Wright et al. 2007b).”
Ecological history and latent conservation potential: Large and giant tortoises as a model for taxon substitutions (2010, background): “Reintroduction biology would benefit by incorporating the recent emphasis across conservation biology that focuses on ecological effectiveness and species interactions (Soulé et al. 2003, 2005, Ripple and Beschta 2007, Wright et al. 2007, Papanastasis 2009, Kaiser-Bunbury et al. 2010).”
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).”
Theory meets reality: How habitat fragmentation research has transcended island biogeographic theory (2008, background): “For example, the decline of key seed dispersers or pollinators in fragments can reduce reproduction, dispersal, and establishment of dependent plant species (e.g. Aizen and Feinsinger, 1994; Chapman et al., 2003; Cordeiro and Howe, 2003; Wright et al., 2007).”
Consequences of Seed Dispersal for Plant Recruitment in Tropical Forests: Interactions Within the Seedscape (2013, background): “Disperser loss has led to compositional changes in the seedling and sapling community favoring species dispersed by non-preferred game species and abiotic means, such as wind (Nu~nez-Iturri & Howe 2007, Wright et al. 2007a, Nunez-Iturri et al. 2008, Terborgh et al. 2008).”
Forest Elephants: Tree Planters of the Congo (2009, background): “…focused on topdown control of herbivores by carnivores (Terborgh 1992), the role of large vertebrates in the regeneration of plant communities (particularly as seed dispersers) has recently dominated the debate (Janzen 1986, Chapman & Onderdonk 1998, Nunez-Iturri & Howe 2007, Wright et al. 2007).”