Good news! #Biodiversity🦜🐜🐒🐸 in a tropical #rainforest 🌴🇪🇨can naturally recover quickly 📈 (if the conditions are suitable = enough surrounding forest). Our new study in #Nature
#forestecol #restoration @jocotoco.bsky.social
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A Christmas message.
The paper was featured in the journal cover 😁
(photo by Marco Tschapka, see below)
We studied seed dispersal interactions across a 40-year forest recovery chronosequence in the Ecuadorian Chocó and found two complementary pathways driving seed rain functional connectivity:
Local forest structure 🌴
and
Landscape-scale connectivity 🗾
Forest strucutre🌴: as forest become more complex, they support more diverse plant-frugivore interactions, increasing the functional diversity of the seed rain
Forest connectivity 🗾: enables late-successional seeds to arrivem from external sources, shaping the functional composition of the seed rain