defaunation

The consequences of defaunation can be expected to affect the plant community.

Defaunation in the ocean has occurred later and less intensely than on land.

The defaunation of large mammals can be done by direct or indirect means.

The most common means of indirect defaunation is habitat destruction.

Marine defaunation has a wide array of effects on ecosystem structure and function.

Defaunation has negative consequences for seed dispersal networks as well.

Defaunation is likely to have a considerable impact on soil carbon, structure, and micro-organisms.

Tropical regions are the most heavily impacted by defaunation.

There are two categories of direct defaunation.

Defaunation differs from extinction; it includes both the disappearance of species and declines in abundance.

Galetti's work has centered on the analysis of the ecological and evolutionary consequences of defaunation.

Two of the most important ecosystem services threatened by marine defaunation are the provision of food and coastal storm protection.

Experimental zoogeography of islands: defaunation and monitoring techniques.

Defaunation leads to reduced species diversity.

Defaunation in the Anthropocene.

Any type of human activity not aimed at the animals in question that results in the defaunation of those animals is indirect.

Defaunation results in a highly modular network in which specialized frugivores instead act as the connector hubs.

During his period in Stanford, he was associated with Professor Rodolfo Dirzo, the father of defaunation ideas.

Defaunation of a 30-meter circle removed all larvae in the leaves and the location of each plant and larval incidence was mapped.

Mitigation options for reducing methane emission from ruminant enteric fermentation include genetic selection, immunization, rumen defaunation, diet modification and grazing management, among others.

Another example of an indirect means of the defaunation of large mammals is through the by-products of modern human activities such as mercury and smoke, or even noise pollution.

In 1988, Galetti attended a talk by the Mexican ecologist Rodolfo Dirzo, who present for the first time his ideas about the impact of defaunation on plant communities.

Defaunation effects were first implied at the Symposium of Plant-Animal Interactions at the University of Campinas, Brazil in 1988 in the context of neotropical forests.

However, other examples of indirect means of defaunation of large mammals would be the over-collection of fruits and nuts or over-hunting of prey that large mammals need for food.

Changes in predation dynamics, seed predation, seed dispersal, carrion removal, dung removal, vegetation trampling, and other ecosystem processes as a result of defaunation can affect ecosystem supporting and regulatory services, such as nutrient cycling and decomposition, crop pollination, pest control, and water quality.