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SUBMITTER: Dantas VL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8748933 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dantas Vinicius L VL Pausas Juli G JG
Nature communications 20220110 1
Large mammal herbivores are important drivers of plant evolution and vegetation patterns, but the extent to which plant trait and ecosystem geography currently reflect the historical distribution of extinct megafauna is unknown. We address this question for South and Central America (Neotropical biogeographic realm) by compiling data on plant defence traits, climate, soil, and fire, as well as on the historical distribution of extinct megafauna and extant mammal herbivores. We show that historic ...[more]