Functional Extinction of Birds Drives Rapid Evolutionary Changes in Seed Size
Functional Extinction of Birds Drives Rapid Evolutionary Changes in Seed Size
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Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Local extinctions have cascading effects on ecosystem functions, yet little is known about the potential for the rapid evolutionary change of species in human-modified scenarios. We show that the functional extinction of large-gape seed dispersers in the Brazilian Atlantic forest is associated with the consistent reduction of the seed size of a key...
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Functional Extinction of Birds Drives Rapid Evolutionary Changes in Seed Size
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1566852052
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1566852052
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0036-8075
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1095-9203
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10.1126/science.1233774
