Frugivore-fruit size relationships between palms and mammals reveal past and future defaunation impacts
oleh: Jun Ying Lim, Jens-Christian Svenning, Bastian Göldel, Søren Faurby, W. Daniel Kissling
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2020-09-01 |
Deskripsi
Extinctions of megafauna can have cascading effects on their ecological communities. Here, Lim et al. investigate the relationships of historical and current mammalian frugivore body size with palm fruit size, then project how further mammal extinctions are likely to affect palm communities.