Estimating interaction credit for trophic rewilding in tropical forests.

ABSTRACT: Trophic rewilding has been suggested as a restoration tool to restore ecological interactions and reverse defaunation and its cascading effects on ecosystem functioning. One of the ecological processes that has been jeopardized by defaunation is animal-mediated seed dispersal. Here, we propose an approach that combines joint species distribution models with occurrence data and species interaction records to quantify the potential to restore seed-dispersal interactions through rewilding and apply it to the Atlantic Forest, a global biodiversity hotspot. Using this approach, we identify areas that should benefit the most from trophic rewilding and candidate species that could contribute to cash the credit of seed-dispersal interactions in a given site. We found that sites within large fragme

SUBMITTER: Marjakangas EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6231069 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature