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SUBMITTER: Wandrag EM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5635905 | biostudies-other | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170828 40
Dispersal is thought to be a key process underlying the high spatial diversity of tropical forests. Just how important dispersal is in structuring plant communities is nevertheless an open question because it is very difficult to isolate dispersal from other processes, and thereby measure its effect. Using a unique situation, the loss of vertebrate seed dispersers on the island of Guam and their presence on the neighboring islands of Saipan and Rota, we quantify the contribution of vertebrate se ...[more]