For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

Second-growth forests provide an important avenue for at least partially recuperating
biodiversity and ecosystem services in tropical regions. Yet, factors affecting changes in …

People have modified landscapes throughout the Holocene (the last c. 11,700 years) by
modifying soils, burning forests, cultivating and domesticating plants, and directly and …

Seed dispersal is critical to the maintenance of healthy terrestrial habitats and to the
regeneration of degraded habitats. As anthropogenic deforestation, fragmentation, and …

Degradation and regeneration of tropical forests can strongly affect gene flow in understorey
species, resulting in genetic erosion and changes in genetic structure. Yet, these processes …

Restoration of tropical landscapes through the expansion of secondary forests is crucial for
climate change mitigation and offers co-benefits for biodiversity. However, the strength of …

Pollen dispersal shapes the local genetic structure of plant populations and determines the
opportunity for local selection and genetic drift, but has been well studied in few animal …

Assessing within-species variation in response to drought is crucial for predicting species'
responses to climate change and informing restoration and conservation efforts, yet …

The idiosyncratic behaviours of seed dispersers are important contributors to plant spatial
associations and genetic structures. In this study, we used a combination of field, molecular …

Aim To synthesize published knowledge on palm–frugivore seed dispersal observations
and to test whether broad‐scale differences in geographic coverage, diversity, composition …