Context Grasslands provide a variety of ecosystem services (ESs) for humans. While much
ES research has focused on forests and wetlands, synthesizing the currently somewhat …

The process of seed dispersal that underpins ecosystem maintenance is performed by
diverse arrays of fruit‐eating animals. However, seed dispersal studies are primarily focused …

To determine the distribution and causes of extinction threat across functional groups of
terrestrial vertebrates, we assembled an ecological trait data set for 18,016 species of …

Amazonia has the richest primate fauna in the world. Nonetheless, the diversity and
distribution of Amazonian primates remain little known and the scarcity of baseline data …

Mutualistic and antagonistic plant–animal interactions differentially contribute to the
maintenance of species diversity in ecological communities. Although both seed dispersal …

Frugivory in tropical forests is a major ecological process as most tree species rely on
frugivores to disperse their seeds. However, the underlying mechanisms driving frugivore …

Examining the relationship between food and primate social organization helps us
understand how the environment shaped hominin social evolution. However, there is debate …

Fifty years of deforestation in the Arc of Deforestation have put at risk species survival,
ecosystem services and the stability of biogeochemical cycles in Amazonia, with global …

Habituation allows an observer to closely approach and follow free-ranging animals, as they
no longer respond to the observer presence (eg, through flight, avoidance, display …

Animal-mediated seed dispersal is recognized to influence the spatial organization of plant
communities but little is known about how frugivores cause such patterns. Here, we explored …