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SUBMITTER: Neuschulz EL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4951728 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neuschulz Eike Lena EL Mueller Thomas T Schleuning Matthias M Böhning-Gaese Katrin K
Scientific reports 20160720
Plant regeneration is essential for maintaining forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, which are globally threatened by human disturbance. Here we present the first integrative meta-analysis on how forest disturbance affects multiple ecological processes of plant regeneration including pollination, seed dispersal, seed predation, recruitment and herbivory. We analysed 408 pairwise comparisons of these processes between near-natural and disturbed forests. Human impacts overall reduced pla ...[more]