Dung beetles are increasingly used as a study taxon—both as bioindicators of
environmental change, and as a model system for exploring ecosystem functioning. The …

Primate seed dispersal has been increasingly recognized as having a potentially profound
impact on tropical forest regeneration and plant species composition. Confirming and …

Although there is increasing interest in the effects of habitat disturbance on community
attributes and the potential consequences for ecosystem functioning, objective approaches …

This chapter summarizes research on seed dispersal vectors (water, wind and animals), and
the factors (including seed size and chemical composition, and plant habit) that determine …

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 …

Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) literature is dominated by investigations
conducted in temperate grassland ecosystems under homogenous environmental …

Anthropogenic activities are causing species extinctions, raising concerns about the
consequences of changing biological communities for ecosystem functioning. To address …

Several reviews of dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) behavior and ecology, as well
as numerous research reports, have either implicitely or explicitely indicated that predation …

Una de las principales limitantes para generar estrategias para la conservación, es la falta
de información y la dificultad para identificar vacíos de conocimiento, que faciliten el …

Spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) use sites composed of one or more trees for sleeping
(sleeping sites and sleeping trees, respectively). Beneath these sites/trees they deposit …