Frugivore-fruit size relationships between palms and mammals reveal past and future defaunation impacts
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.
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| author | Jun Ying Lim Jens-Christian Svenning Bastian Göldel Søren Faurby W. Daniel Kissling |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-03e4e509adbe48f188159e9fac87db7b2022-12-21T22:43:41ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232020-09-0111111310.1038/s41467-020-18530-5Frugivore-fruit size relationships between palms and mammals reveal past and future defaunation impactsJun Ying Lim0Jens-Christian Svenning1Bastian Göldel2Søren Faurby3W. Daniel Kissling4Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of AmsterdamSection for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity & Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Biology, Aarhus UniversitySection for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity & Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Biology, Aarhus UniversityDepartment of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of GothenburgInstitute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of AmsterdamExtinctions 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.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18530-5 |
| spellingShingle | Jun Ying Lim Jens-Christian Svenning Bastian Göldel Søren Faurby W. Daniel Kissling Frugivore-fruit size relationships between palms and mammals reveal past and future defaunation impacts Nature Communications |
| title | Frugivore-fruit size relationships between palms and mammals reveal past and future defaunation impacts |
| title_full | Frugivore-fruit size relationships between palms and mammals reveal past and future defaunation impacts |
| title_fullStr | Frugivore-fruit size relationships between palms and mammals reveal past and future defaunation impacts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Frugivore-fruit size relationships between palms and mammals reveal past and future defaunation impacts |
| title_short | Frugivore-fruit size relationships between palms and mammals reveal past and future defaunation impacts |
| title_sort | frugivore fruit size relationships between palms and mammals reveal past and future defaunation impacts |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18530-5 |
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