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SUBMITTER: Gardner CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6791894 | biostudies-other | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Gardner Charlie J CJ Bicknell Jake E JE Baldwin-Cantello William W Struebig Matthew J MJ Davies Zoe G ZG
Nature communications 20191014 1
Intact forests provide diverse and irreplaceable ecosystem services that are critical to human well-being, such as carbon storage to mitigate climate change. However, the ecosystem functions that underpin these services are highly dependent on the woody vegetation-animal interactions occurring within forests. While vertebrate defaunation is of growing policy concern, the effects of vertebrate loss on natural forest regeneration have yet to be quantified globally. Here we conduct a meta-analysis ...[more]