Consequences of Seed Dispersal for Plant Recruitment in Tropical Forests: Interactions Within the Seedscape

Large vertebrates as the missing components of seed-dispersal networks

(2013) Mariana M. Vidal et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Consequences of defaunation for a tropical tree community

(2013) Rhett D Harrison et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Accidental experiments: ecological and evolutionary insights and opportunities derived from global change

(2013) Janneke HilleRisLambers et al.   OIKOS

Natural Experiment Demonstrates That Bird Loss Leads to Cessation of Dispersal of Native Seeds from Intact to Degraded Forests

(2013) Eleanor M. Caves et al.   PLoS One

Bushmeat hunting changes regeneration of African rainforests

(2013) E. O. Effiom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Enemies Maintain Hyperdiverse Tropical Forests

(2012) John Terborgh   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Imagine a world without seed dispersers: A review of threats, consequences and future directions

(2012) Nina Farwig et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Seed dispersal in changing landscapes

(2012) Kim R. McConkey et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Integrating frugivory and animal movement: a review of the evidence and implications for scaling seed dispersal

(2012) Marina Corrêa Côrtes et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Mating Behavior Drives Seed Dispersal by the Long-wattled Umbrellabird Cephalopterus penduliger

(2012) Jordan Karubian et al.   BIOTROPICA

Dung Beetles Reduce Clustering of Tropical Tree Seedlings

(2012) Callum R. Lawson et al.   BIOTROPICA

Effectiveness of Mistletoe Seed Dispersal by Tyrant Flycatchers in a Mixed Andean Landscape

(2012) Flavia A. Montaño-Centellas   BIOTROPICA

Mapping Tropical Forest Trees Using High-Resolution Aerial Digital Photographs

(2012) Carol X. Garzon-Lopez et al.   BIOTROPICA

Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Human Disturbance on Seed Dispersal by Animals

(2012) Julia S. Markl et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Directed seed dispersal towards areas with low conspecific tree density by a scatter-hoarding rodent

(2012) Ben T. Hirsch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evolutionary tools for phytosanitary risk analysis: phylogenetic signal as a predictor of host range of plant pests and pathogens

(2012) Gregory S. Gilbert et al.   Evolutionary Applications

An invasive tree alters the structure of seed dispersal networks between birds and plants in French Polynesia

(2012) Erica N. Spotswood et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Do larger frugivores move seeds further? Body size, seed dispersal distance, and a case study of a large, sedentary pigeon

(2012) Debra M. Wotton et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The interacting effects of clumped seed dispersal and distance- and density-dependent mortality on seedling recruitment patterns

(2012) Noelle G. Beckman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seed dispersal of Syzygium oblatum (Myrtaceae) by two species of fruit bat (Cynopterus sphinx and Rousettus leschenaulti) in South-West China

(2012) Zhan-Hui Tang et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Endozoochory decreases environmental filtering imposed to seedlings

(2012) Laura Cavallero et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Consequences of frugivore-mediated seed dispersal for the spatial and genetic structures of a neotropical palm

(2012) J. CHOO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Plant-frugivore networks are less specialized and more robust at forest-farmland edges than in the interior of a tropical forest

(2012) Sebastian Menke et al.   OIKOS

A telemetric thread tag for tracking seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding rodents

(2012) Ben T. Hirsch et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

What Determines the Temporal Changes of Species Degree and Strength in an Oceanic Island Plant-Disperser Network?

(2012) Aarón González-Castro et al.   PLoS One

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

Molecular insights into seed dispersal mutualisms driving plant population recruitment

(2011) Cristina García et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Differential seed handling by two African primates affects seed fate and establishment of large-seeded trees

(2011) Nicole D. Gross-Camp et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The Abundance of Large Ateline Monkeys is Positively Associated with the Diversity of Plants Regenerating in Neotropical Forests

(2011) Pablo R. Stevenson   BIOTROPICA

Pathogen impacts on plant communities: unifying theory, concepts, and empirical work

(2011) Erin A. Mordecai   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

The impact of seed dispersal by black and gold howler monkeys on forest regeneration

(2011) Susana Patricia Bravo   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Linking fruit traits to variation in predispersal vertebrate seed predation, insect seed predation, and pathogen attack

(2011) Noelle G. Beckman et al.   ECOLOGY

Nonredundancy in the dispersal network of a generalist tropical forest tree

(2011) Kim R. McConkey et al.   ECOLOGY

Analysis of a hyper-diverse seed dispersal network: modularity and underlying mechanisms

(2011) Camila I. Donatti et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Experimental evidence for a phylogenetic Janzen-Connell effect in a subtropical forest

(2011) Xubing Liu et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic density dependence and environmental filtering predict seedling mortality in a tropical forest

(2011) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effect of logging on rodent scatter-hoarding dynamics in tropical forests: implications for plant recruitment

(2011) Gabriel GUTIÉRREZ-GRANADOS   Integrative Zoology

Empirical evaluation of directed dispersal and density-dependent effects across successive recruitment phases

(2011) Orr Spiegel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Soil disturbance by vertebrates alters seed predation, movement and germination in an African rain forest

(2011) Amy E. Dunham   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

The full path of Janzen-Connell effects: genetic tracking of seeds to adult plant recruitment

(2011) EUGENE W. SCHUPP et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The modularity of seed dispersal: differences in structure and robustness between bat– and bird–fruit networks

(2011) Marco Aurelio Ribeiro Mello et al.   OECOLOGIA

Impacts of logging on density-dependent predation of dipterocarp seeds in a South East Asian rainforest

(2011) R. Bagchi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Missing Part of Seed Dispersal Networks: Structure and Robustness of Bat-Fruit Interactions

(2011) Marco Aurelio Ribeiro Mello et al.   PLoS One

Halting Regime Shifts in Floristically Intact Tropical Forests Deprived of Their Frugivores

(2011) Jedediah F. Brodie et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Mechanistic models of seed dispersal by wind

(2011) Ran Nathan et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Are introduced rats (Rattus rattus) both seed predators and dispersers in Hawaii?

(2010) Aaron B. Shiels et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

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

(2010) Hadrien Vanthomme et al.   BIOTROPICA

Seed dispersal by pulp consumers, not “legitimate” seed dispersers, increases Guettarda viburnoides population growth

(2010) Andrea P. Loayza et al.   ECOLOGY

Widespread density-dependent seedling mortality promotes species coexistence in a highly diverse Amazonian rain forest

(2010) Margaret R. Metz et al.   ECOLOGY

Specialization and interaction strength in a tropical plant–frugivore network differ among forest strata

(2010) Matthias Schleuning et al.   ECOLOGY

Are all seeds equal? Spatially explicit comparisons of seed fall and sapling recruitment in a tropical forest

(2010) Varun Swamy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Testing the Janzen-Connell mechanism: pathogens cause overcompensating density dependence in a tropical tree

(2010) Robert Bagchi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Observational approaches in ecology open new ground in a changing world

(2010) Raphael Sagarin et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Effect of Resting Patterns of Tamarins (Saguinus fuscicollis and Saguinus mystax) on the Spatial Distribution of Seeds and Seedling Recruitment

(2010) Fernando Julio João Muñoz Lazo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Matrix models for a changeable world: the importance of transient dynamics in population management

(2010) Thomas H. G. Ezard et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Using experiments, demography and population models to estimate interaction strength based on transient and asymptotic dynamics

(2010) John L. Maron et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Spatial patterns of tree recruitment in East African tropical forests that have lost their vertebrate seed dispersers

(2010) Fred Babweteera et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

(2010) Scott A. Mangan et al.   NATURE

Seed dispersal effectiveness revisited: a conceptual review

(2010) Eugene W. Schupp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Point patterns of tree distribution determined by habitat heterogeneity and dispersal limitation

(2010) Yi-Ching Lin et al.   OECOLOGIA

The tolerance-fecundity trade-off and the maintenance of diversity in seed size

(2010) H. C. Muller-Landau   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Asymmetric Density Dependence Shapes Species Abundances in a Tropical Tree Community

(2010) L. S. Comita et al.   SCIENCE

Recruitment in Tropical Tree Species: Revealing Complex Spatial Patterns

(2009) Thorsten Wiegand et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Can Functional Traits Predict Ecological Interactions? A Case Study Using Rain forest Frugivores and Plants in Australia

(2009) Cath Moran et al.   BIOTROPICA

Implications of Behavior and Gut Passage for Seed Dispersal Quality: The Case of Black and Gold Howler Monkeys

(2009) Susana P. Bravo   BIOTROPICA

Bushmeat poaching reduces the seed dispersal and population growth rate of a mammal-dispersed tree

(2009) Jedediah F. Brodie et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Natural disturbance and human land use as determinants of tropical forest dynamics: results from a forest simulator

(2009) María Uriarte et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Beyond description: the active and effective way to infer processes from spatial patterns

(2009) Eliot J. B. McIntire et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional differences within a guild of tropical mammalian frugivores

(2009) Jedediah F. Brodie et al.   ECOLOGY

Abiotic and biotic drivers of seedling survival in a hurricane-impacted tropical forest

(2009) Liza S. Comita et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Quantifying the effects of seed arrival and environmental conditions on tropical seedling community structure

(2009) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   OECOLOGIA

Conservation and restoration of plant–animal mutualisms on oceanic islands

(2009) Christopher N. Kaiser-Bunbury et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Proximity is not a proxy for parentage in an animal-dispersed Neotropical canopy palm

(2009) U. U. Sezen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hunting reduces recruitment of primate-dispersed trees in Amazonian Peru

(2008) Gabriela Nunez-Iturri et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Seed Dispersal and Ingestion of Insect-Infested Seeds by Black Howler Monkeys in Flooded Forests of the Parana River, Argentina

(2008) Susana Patricia Bravo   BIOTROPICA

Effects of Local Disturbance of Tropical Forests on Frugivores and Seed Removal of a Small-Seeded Afrotropical Tree

(2008) JASPER MBAE KIRIKA et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

TREE RECRUITMENT IN AN EMPTY FOREST

(2008) John Terborgh et al.   ECOLOGY

Linking seed dispersal and genetic structure of trees: a biogeographical approach

(2008) Friederike A. Voigt et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest

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

Sample size and appropriate design of fruit and seed traps in tropical forests

(2008) Pablo R. Stevenson et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Temporal and spatial variability in seedling dynamics: a cross-site comparison in four lowland tropical forests

(2008) Margaret R. Metz et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Dispersal, demography and spatial population models for conservation and control management

(2007) Eelke Jongejans et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS