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Supplemental information, code, and data for the MS: Defaunation impacts carbon storage in tropical forests
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
oai:digital.csic.es:10261/356241
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
- Bello, Carolina
- Galetti, Mauro
- Pizo, Marco A.
- Magnago, Luiz Fernando Silva
- Ferreira Rocha, Mariana
- Lima, Renato A. F.
- Peres, Carlos A.
- Ovaskainen, Otso
- Jordano, Pedro
Carbon storage is widely acknowledged as one of the most valuable forest ecosystem services. Deforestation, logging, fragmentation and climate change have significant impacts on tropical carbon stocks, however an elusive and yet undetected decrease in carbon storage may be due to defaunation of large seed dispersers. Many large tropical trees with sizeable contributions to carbon stock rely on large vertebrates for seed dispersal and regeneration, yet many of these frugivores are threatened by hunting, illegal trade and habitat loss. We used a large dataset on tree species composition and abundance, seed, fruit and carbon related traits, and plant-animal interactions to estimate the loss of carbon storage capacity of tropical forests in defaunated scenarios. By simulating the local extinction of trees that depend on large frugivores at 31 Atlantic Forest communities, we found that defaunation has the potential to significantly erode carbon storage even when only a small proportion (10%) of large-seeded trees are extirpated., Peer reviewed
DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/356241
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
oai:digital.csic.es:10261/356241
HANDLE: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/356241
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Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
oai:digital.csic.es:10261/356241
Dataset. 2015
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION, CODE, AND DATA FOR THE MS: DEFAUNATION IMPACTS CARBON STORAGE IN TROPICAL FORESTS
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
- Bello, Carolina
- Galetti, Mauro
- Pizo, Marco A.
- Magnago, Luiz Fernando Silva
- Ferreira Rocha, Mariana
- Lima, Renato A. F.
- Peres, Carlos A.
- Ovaskainen, Otso
- Jordano, Pedro
Carbon storage is widely acknowledged as one of the most valuable forest ecosystem services. Deforestation, logging, fragmentation and climate change have significant impacts on tropical carbon stocks, however an elusive and yet undetected decrease in carbon storage may be due to defaunation of large seed dispersers. Many large tropical trees with sizeable contributions to carbon stock rely on large vertebrates for seed dispersal and regeneration, yet many of these frugivores are threatened by hunting, illegal trade and habitat loss. We used a large dataset on tree species composition and abundance, seed, fruit and carbon related traits, and plant-animal interactions to estimate the loss of carbon storage capacity of tropical forests in defaunated scenarios. By simulating the local extinction of trees that depend on large frugivores at 31 Atlantic Forest communities, we found that defaunation has the potential to significantly erode carbon storage even when only a small proportion (10%) of large-seeded trees are extirpated., Peer reviewed
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