Frugivore-fruit size relationships between palms and mammals reveal past and future defaunation impacts

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 4904 - 13
• Main Authors: Lim, Jun Ying, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Göldel, Bastian, Faurby, Søren, Kissling, W. Daniel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 29.09.2020; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/158/670; 631/158/851; 631/158/853; 631/158/857; climate; consequences; Ecology; Ekologi; Evolutionary Biology; Evolutionsbiologi; extinctions; feeding ecology; herbivores; Humanities and Social Sciences; late quaternary; multidisciplinary; plant; pleistocene australia; Science; Science & Technology - Other Topics; Science (multidisciplinary); seed-dispersal; south

Mammalian frugivores are critical seed dispersers, but many are under threat of extinction. Futhermore, the impact of past and future defaunation on plant assemblages has yet to be quantified at the global scale. Here, we integrate palm and mammalian frugivore trait and occurrence data and reveal a...