Old‐growth tropical forests are being extensively deforested and fragmented worldwide. Yet
forest recovery through succession has led to an expansion of secondary forests in human …

Growth in seed dispersal studies has been fast‐paced since the seed disperser
effectiveness (SDE) framework was developed 17 yr ago. Thus, the time is ripe to revisit the …

Of the 356 species of turtles worldwide, approximately 61% are threatened or already
extinct. Turtles are among the most threatened of the major groups of vertebrates, in general …

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

Trophic cascades—the top-down regulation of ecosystems by predators—are an essential
aspect of ecosystem function and well-being. Trophic cascades are often drastically …

A growing understanding of the ecology of seed dispersal has so far had little influence on
conservation practice, while the needs of conservation practice have had little influence on …

Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen
percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their …

▪ Abstract Models of seed dispersal—a key process in plant spatial dynamics—have played
a fundamental role in representing dispersal patterns, investigating dispersal processes …

People have hunted mammals in tropical Asian forests for at least 40,000 yr. This period has
seen one confirmed global extinction (the giant pangolin, Manis palaeojavanica) and range …

Theories of tropical tree diversity emphasize dispersal limitation as a potential mechanism
for separating species in space and reducing competitive exclusion. We compared the …