Biodiversity loss can precipitate extinction cascades and impair ecological processes. These
'downstream'effects will be exacerbated if functionally important taxa are tightly linked with …

Overhunting has caused severe decline or local extinction in many large-bodied mammals
with direct consequences on plant regeneration, yet little is known about indirect impacts of …

This synthesis builds on the preceding articles of this Special Section and has three goals.
We first review the nascent literature that addresses indirect effects of hunting for tropical …

A key challenge for tropical conservation biologists is to assess how forest management
practices affect biodiversity and associated ecosystem functions. Dung beetles …

Human population growth and the activities resulting in habitat destruction are a threat to
biodiversity worldwide. Despite the recognized importance of dung beetles in supporting …

Although insects are crucial for maintaining ecosystem function, our understanding of their
overall response to human activity remains limited. This is no less true of dung-burying …

The millennial–scale evolutionary relationships between mammals and dung beetles have
been eroded due to several drivers of contemporary biodiversity loss. Although some …

Unprecedented rates of logging and hunting threaten to transform the remaining primary
tropical forest into a degraded mosaic, emptied of wildlife. Defaunation is expected to …

Mammal populations are increasingly hunted, yet the consequences of their disappearance
from tropical forests have only recently been explored. Here, we summarize current research …

Biodiversity drives ecological functioning, ultimately providing ecosystem services.
Ecosystem processes are favored by greater functional diversity, particularly when groups of …