Assessing the role of megafauna in tropical forest ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles - the potential of vegetation models

The large mean body size of mammalian herbivores explains the productivity paradox during the Last Glacial Maximum

(2018) Dan Zhu et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

An examination of feeding ecology in Pleistocene proboscideans from southern China ( Sinomastodon , Stegodon , Elephas ), by means of dental microwear texture analysis

(2017) Hanwen Zhang et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

(2017) Martin J. P. Sullivan et al.   Scientific Reports

Mammal diversity influences the carbon cycle through trophic interactions in the Amazon

(2017) Mar Sobral et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Loss of seed dispersal before the loss of seed dispersers

(2016) Kim R. McConkey et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Lessons learned from applying a forest gap model to understand ecosystem and carbon dynamics of complex tropical forests

(2016) Rico Fischer et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Species with greater seed mass are more tolerant of conspecific neighbours: a key driver of early survival and future abundances in a tropical forest

(2016) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

How do primates affect seed germination? A meta-analysis of gut passage effects on neotropical plants

(2016) Lisieux F. Fuzessy et al.   OIKOS

Dispersal limitation induces long-term biomass collapse in overhunted Amazonian forests

(2016) Carlos A. Peres et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Vertebrate herbivores are the main cause of seedling mortality in a logged African rainforest-implications for forest restoration

(2016) Tiina Piiroinen et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Contrasting effects of defaunation on aboveground carbon storage across the global tropics

(2016) Anand M. Osuri et al.   Nature Communications

Climate, soil organic layer, and nitrogen jointly drive forest development after fire in the North American boreal zone

(2016) A. T. Trugman et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Historic and prehistoric human-driven extinctions have reshaped global mammal diversity patterns

(2015) S. Faurby et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Review of feeding ecology data of Late Pleistocene mammalian herbivores from South America and discussions on niche differentiation

(2015) Lucas de Melo França et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Megafaunal influences on tree recruitment in African equatorial forests

(2015) J. Terborgh et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Megafauna extinction, tree species range reduction, and carbon storage in Amazonian forests

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A mammoth mouthful? A test of the idea that larger animals ingest larger seeds

(2015) Si-Chong Chen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Potential impact of large ungulate grazers on African vegetation, carbon storage and fire regimes

(2015) Adrian Pachzelt et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

(2015) L. Poorter et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Lianas reduce carbon accumulation and storage in tropical forests

(2015) Geertje M. F. van der Heijden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global nutrient transport in a world of giants

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Combining paleo-data and modern exclosure experiments to assess the impact of megafauna extinctions on woody vegetation

(2015) Elisabeth S. Bakker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A continent-wide assessment of the form and intensity of large mammal herbivory in Africa

(2015) G. P. Hempson et al.   SCIENCE

Defaunation affects carbon storage in tropical forests

(2015) C. Bello et al.   Science Advances

Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

(2015) W. J. Ripple et al.   Science Advances

Primate extirpation from rainforest fragments does not appear to influence seedling recruitment

(2014) Oscarm M. Chaves et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Changes in Elephant Abundance Affect Forest Composition or Regeneration?

(2014) Patrick A. Omeja et al.   BIOTROPICA

The Multiple Impacts of Leaf-Cutting Ants and Their Novel Ecological Role in Human-Modified Neotropical Forests

(2014) Inara R. Leal et al.   BIOTROPICA

Using dynamic vegetation models to simulate plant range shifts

(2014) R. S. Snell et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Does hunting threaten timber regeneration in selectively logged tropical forests?

(2014) Cooper Rosin   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

(2014) Jérôme Chave et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Testing predictions of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival

(2014) Liza S. Comita et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Does the long-term success of REDD+ also depend on biodiversity?

(2014) Amy Hinsley et al.   ORYX

A fully traits-based approach to modeling global vegetation distribution

(2014) P. M. van Bodegom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental defaunation of terrestrial mammalian herbivores alters tropical rainforest understorey diversity

(2014) A. A. Camargo-Sanabria et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change

(2014) C. Sandom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Loss of animal seed dispersal increases extinction risk in a tropical tree species due to pervasive negative density dependence across life stages

(2014) T. T. Caughlin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Partitioning the relative contribution of one-phase and two-phase seed dispersal when evaluating seed dispersal effectiveness

(2014) Laurence Culot et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Emergent Global Patterns of Ecosystem Structure and Function from a Mechanistic General Ecosystem Model

(2014) Michael B. J. Harfoot et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Preindustrial Human Impacts on Global and Regional Environment

(2013) Christopher E. Doughty   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Dispersal vacuum in the seedling recruitment of a primate-dispersed Amazonian tree

(2013) Taal Levi et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Cascading effects of contemporaneous defaunation on tropical forest communities

(2013) Erin L. Kurten   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Ecological erosion of an Afrotropical forest and potential consequences for tree recruitment and forest biomass

(2013) John R. Poulsen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of living in a defaunated world

(2013) Mauro Galetti et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Lack of trophic release with large mammal predators and prey in Borneo

(2013) Jedediah F. Brodie et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Coupling a physiological grazer population model with a generalized model for vegetation dynamics

(2013) Adrian Pachzelt et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Consequences of defaunation for a tropical tree community

(2013) Rhett D Harrison et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Herbivory makes major contributions to ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycling in tropical forests

(2013) Daniel B. Metcalfe et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Animating the Carbon Cycle

(2013) Oswald J. Schmitz et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Doom of the elephant-dependent trees in a Congo tropical forest

(2013) David Beaune et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Simulating long-distance seed dispersal in a dynamic vegetation model

(2013) Rebecca S. Snell   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Sampling Effort in Neotropical Primate Diet Studies: Collective Gains and Underlying Geographic and Taxonomic Biases

(2013) Joseph E. Hawes et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Contrasts in the large herbivore faunas of the southern continents in the late Pleistocene and the ecological implications for human origins

(2013) Norman Owen-Smith   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

(2013) William J. Sutherland et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The legacy of the Pleistocene megafauna extinctions on nutrient availability in Amazonia

(2013) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   Nature Geoscience

Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought

(2013) Thomas L. Powell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ecological impacts of the late Quaternary megaherbivore extinctions

(2013) Jacquelyn L. Gill   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Extent and ecological consequences of hunting in Central African rainforests in the twenty-first century

(2013) K. A. Abernethy et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

African rainforests: past, present and future

(2013) Y. Malhi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests

(2013) S. L. Lewis et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Devastating Decline of Forest Elephants in Central Africa

(2013) Fiona Maisels et al.   PLoS One

Lateral Diffusion of Nutrients by Mammalian Herbivores in Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2013) Adam Wolf et al.   PLoS One

Trophic cascade alters ecosystem carbon exchange

(2013) M. S. Strickland et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Interactive effects of chronic deer browsing and canopy gap disturbance on forest successional dynamics

(2013) Jennifer A. Holm et al.   Ecosphere

How selective are elephants as agents of forest tree damage in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda?

(2012) Fredrick Ssali et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The Nature of Seedling Assemblages in a Fragmented Tropical Landscape: Implications for Forest Regeneration

(2012) Edgar E. Santo-Silva et al.   BIOTROPICA

Global resorption efficiencies and concentrations of carbon and nutrients in leaves of terrestrial plants

(2012) Leonardus Vergutz et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Searching for sustainability: are assessments of wildlife harvests behind the times?

(2012) Karen Z. Weinbaum et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Landscape-scale effects of herbivores on treefall in African savannas

(2012) Gregory P. Asner et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

What controls the distribution of tropical forest and savanna?

(2012) Brett P. Murphy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Are Primates Ecosystem Engineers?

(2012) Colin A. Chapman et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

(2012) William F. Laurance et al.   NATURE

Thieving rodents as substitute dispersers of megafaunal seeds

(2012) P. A. Jansen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Do dung fungal spores make a good proxy for past distribution of large herbivores?

(2012) Ambroise G. Baker et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Aftermath of Megafaunal Extinction: Ecosystem Transformation in Pleistocene Australia

(2012) S. Rule et al.   SCIENCE

How many elephants can you fit into a conservation area

(2012) Simon Scheiter et al.   Conservation Letters

Megagardeners of the forest – the role of elephants in seed dispersal

(2011) Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems: do browsing and grazing herbivores matter?

(2011) Andrew J. Tanentzap et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Geological control of floristic composition in Amazonian forests

(2011) Mark A. Higgins et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Seasonal patterns of CO2fluxes in Amazon forests: Fusion of eddy covariance data and the ORCHIDEE model

(2011) Hans Verbeeck et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Nutrient transport within and between habitats through seed dispersal processes by woolly monkeys in north-western Amazonia

(2010) Pablo R. Stevenson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Bushmeat Hunting Alters Recruitment of Large-seeded Plant Species in Central Africa

(2010) Hadrien Vanthomme et al.   BIOTROPICA

Understanding long-term primate community dynamics: implications of forest change

(2010) Colin A. Chapman et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

The ODD protocol: A review and first update

(2010) Volker Grimm et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Carbon and nitrogen cycle dynamics in the O-CN land surface model: 2. Role of the nitrogen cycle in the historical terrestrial carbon balance

(2010) S. Zaehle et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World's Vertebrates

(2010) M. Hoffmann et al.   SCIENCE

The impact of red howler monkey latrines on the distribution of main nutrients and on topsoil profiles in a tropical rain forest

(2009) NADIA DOS SANTOS NEVES et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Seed mass, abundance and breeding system among tropical forest species: do dioecious species exhibit compensatory reproduction or abundances?

(2009) Simon A. Queenborough et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

(2009) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

The Forgotten Megafauna

(2009) Dennis M. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

A Preliminary Study of the Temporal and Spatial Biomass Patterns of Herbaceous Vegetation Consumed by Mountain Gorillas in an Afromontane Rain Forest

(2008) Jessica Ganas et al.   BIOTROPICA

Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest

(2008) Helene C. Muller-Landau et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seed Dispersal Anachronisms: Rethinking the Fruits Extinct Megafauna Ate

(2008) Paulo R. Guimarães et al.   PLoS One