Most trees in the Amazon (90%), the Atlantic Forest (90%), or the Cerrado, the Brazilian savannah-like biome (60%), depend on animals to disperse their seeds, ensure their reproduction, and keep the ...

When a toucan plucks fruit from a tree in the Amazon Rainforest, it’s doing more than just finding lunch. Moving to a new location and depositing seeds via its droppings could be crucial in addressing ...

Walking in the woods of AutWin is delightful, and now in mid-November, we are in the midst of this interlude after the leaf drop and before the snow cover. It is at this time that we can look through ...

A lot of attention has been paid to how climate change can drive biodiversity loss. Now, MIT researchers have shown the reverse is also true: Reductions in biodiversity can jeopardize one of Earth’s ...

A new Nature study examining thousands of bird species across more than a thousand sites worldwide reveals a troubling ...

An experiment in Panama's Parque Natural Metropolitano and Gamboa revealed that agoutis were less likely to disperse and pilfer seeds in sites where ferocious felines roam. When going through ...

Increasing light pollution in tropical habitats could be hampering regeneration of rainforests because of its impact on nocturnal seed-dispersers. These new findings show that seed-dispersing bats ...

Haldre Rogers’s entry into ecology came via the sort of man-made calamity that scientists euphemistically call an “accidental experiment.” She’d taken a job in 2002 on the Pacific island of Guam and ...

Fish are probably not the first animals that leap to mind when thinking of seed dispersers. Squirrels are well-known examples, but researchers have recently tracked a species of frugivorous—that is, ...

Rats are rarely thought of as heroes. In fact, in many parts of the world they are despised, while in others they serve largely as food. But, scientists are now discovering that many tropical forest ...

Discover how vespicochory seed dispersal works, with plants like Stemona tuberosa attracting wasps to carry their seeds. When offered whole diaspores, elasiosomes, or seeds, the wasps took no interest ...