Loss of top predators and fragmentation lead to the decline of dominant plants in forests:a balance needed for conservation and management on overabundant large herbivore species  

作　　者：Lin CAO Zhibin ZHANG 

机构地区：[1]School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences,Yunnan University,Kunming,China [2]State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents in Agriculture,Institute of Zoology,Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS),Beijing,China [3]CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,China

出　　处：《Integrative Zoology》2022年第2期231-233,共3页整合动物学（英文版）

摘　　要：Portela and Dirzo(2020)recently reported a very interesting discovery,showing that forest fragmentation and defaunation resulted in a medium-sized monkey population outbreak,occurring in a predator-free forest fragment,which in turn led to the decline of a dominant plant Euterpe edulis(“palmito”).The scenario for this story is the infamously fragmented Brazilian Atlantic Forest hotspot.The researchers found that a native capuchin monkey(Sapajus nigritus)population has grown rapidly in recent decades,becoming hyper-abundant in fragments,concurrent with the local extinction of its predators,including Harpy eagle(Harpia harpyja).

关 键 词：forest PREDATOR abundant 

分 类 号：Q94[生物学—植物学]