Browsing by Author "Rosin, Cooper"
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Assessing the effects of elephant foraging on the structure and diversity of an Afrotropical forest
(Biotropica, 2020-05-01)African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) are ecosystem engineers that browse and damage large quantities of vegetation during their foraging and movement. Though elephant trail networks and clearings are conspicuous ... -
Assessing Vertebrate Abundance and the Effects of Anthropogenic Disturbance on Tropical Forest Dynamics
(2012-04-27)The Madre de Dios river basin in southeastern Peru is one of the largest and most diverse forest ecosystems on the planet. Though conservation zones with strict protection do exist in the basin, human population growth ... -
Hunting-induced defaunation drives increased seed predation and decreased seedling establishment of commercially important tree species in an Afrotropical forest
(Forest Ecology and Management, 2016-12-15)© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Human hunting is widespread in tropical forests and can substantially alter the plant-animal interactions that drive tree recruitment. Seed predation is a strong determinant of plant reproductive success, ... -
Plant-Animal Interactions and Defaunation in Tropical Forests: How Animal Communities and Anthropogenic Disturbances Drive Patterns in Seed Predation, Seedling Damage, and the Regeneration of Tropical Forest Trees
(2017)The biotic forces that shape plant communities across ontogenetic stages drive patterns in survival, vegetation structure, and species diversity. In tropical forests, many of these forces are facilitated by interactions ... -
Poaching empties critical Central African wilderness of forest elephants.
(Curr Biol, 2017-02-20)Elephant populations are in peril everywhere, but forest elephants in Central Africa have sustained alarming losses in the last decade [1]. Large, remote protected areas are thought to best safeguard forest elephants by ... -
Telemetric tracking of scatterhoarding and seed fate in a Central African forest
(Biotropica, 2017-03-01)© 2016 The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation In seed predation studies, removal of a seed is only the first step of a dynamic process that may result in dispersal rather than seed death. This process, termed ... -
The ecological consequences of forest elephant declines for Afrotropical forests.
(Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, 2017-10-27)Poaching is rapidly extirpating African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) from most of their historical range, leaving vast areas of elephant-free tropical forest. Elephants are ecological engineers that create and maintain ...
