Species interactions can propagate disturbances across space via direct and indirect effects, potentially connecting species at a global scale. However, ecological and biogeographic boundaries may mitigate this spread by demarcating the limits of ecological networks. We tested whether large-scale ecological boundaries (ecoregions and biomes) and human disturbance gradients increase dissimilarity among plant-fru...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:47:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-02-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG); CYTED Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo; Seed dispersal benefits plants and frugivores, and potent...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:12:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-08-30; Department of Biological Sciences Stanford University, CA 94305; Laboratório de Biologia da Conservação Departamento de Ecologia Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), C.P. 199, 13506-900 Rio Claro, SP; Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) Ciências da Saúde, Av. Unisinos, 950, 93022-900, Sã...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T11:39:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-02-01; How species interactions change in space and time is a major question in ecology. In tropical forests, plant individuals share mutualistic partners (pollinators or seed dispersers), yet we have little understanding of the factors affecting these individual interaction patterns. We used a seed dispersal ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-05-01T13:11:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-01-01; Disentangling the structure of plant–animal mutualisms shed light on how species are organized, and allow us to infer about resilience, specificity, and ultimately the consequences of the loss of functions to the ecosystem. Here we gathered fruit–frugivore interactions for all the major vertebrate taxa ...
Climate change is forcing the redistribution of life on Earth at an unprecedented velocity1,2 . Migratory birds are thought to help plants to track climate change through long-distance seed dispersal3,4 . However, seeds may be consistently dispersed towards cooler or warmer latitudes depending on whether the fruiting period of a plant species coincides with northward or southward migrations. Here we assess the ...
Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T11:05:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-01-01; Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades; CYTED Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo; Large mammalian herbivores play an important role in shaping the diversity of tropical forests by affecting the survival of seedlings and saplings beneath parent plants. The white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pe...
Made available in DSpace on 2021-06-25T10:17:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-02-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia; The world-wide decline in populations of large-bodied vertebrates due to deforestation and poaching threatens the persistence of an...
Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-10T20:00:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-06-01; The data set provided here includes 8,320 frugivory interactions (records of pairwise interactions between plant and frugivore species) reported for the Atlantic Forest. The data set includes interactions between 331 vertebrate species (232 birds, 90 mammals, 5 fishes, 1 amphibian, and 3 reptiles) and 7...