Extant fruit‐eating birds promote genetically diverse seed rain, but disperse to fewer sites in defaunated tropical forests

The world‐wide decline in populations of large‐bodied vertebrates due to deforestation and poaching threatens the persistence of animal‐dispersed plants by reducing long‐distance seed dispersal and generating aggregated seed rain patterns. We evaluated whether the composition of maternal trees contr...

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