Defaunation can trigger cascading events in natural communities and may have strong
consequences for plant recruitment in tropical forests. Several species of large seed …

Defaunation, driven by hunting and habitat fragmentation, poses a threat to wildlife in
tropical forests worldwide and is expected to have cascading effects on other organisms …

Hunting and habitat loss represent an increasingly common anthropogenic impact.
Available evidence suggests that defaunation is typically differential: medium/large …

It has been suggested that tropical defaunation may unleash community-wide cascading
effects, leading to reductions in plant diversity. However, experimental evidence establishing …

The local, global or functional extinction of species or populations of animals, known as
defaunation, can erode important ecological services in tropical forests. Many mutualistic …

It has been suggested that the anthropogenically driven loss of herbivorous mammals might
lead to changes in the recruitment patterns of tropical rain forest plants, but few studies have …

Human hunting is widespread in tropical forests and can substantially alter the plant-animal
interactions that drive tree recruitment. Seed predation is a strong determinant of plant …

Overhunting reduces important plant-animal interactions such as vertebrate seed dispersal
and seed predation, thereby altering plant regeneration and even above-ground biomass. It …

Habitat loss and fragmentation often leads to defaunation of large‐bodied mammals, and
their loss could trigger release from top‐down control or food resource competition for small …

Defaunation alters trophic interactions between plants and vertebrates, which may disrupt
trophic cascades, thereby favoring a subset of plant species and reducing diversity. If …