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Olivia Carter
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🐘 Wildlife | Conservation Biologist & Photographer
📍QENP Uganda
🌍PhD candidate: wildlife sleep and climate resilience
📸Wildlife photography (insta): @girlwiththeelephanttattoo
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June 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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The majority of plant species rely on animals to move their seeds. Birds, mammals, and other seed dispersers shape plant biodiversity, recovery from disturbance, and responses to climate change.

But this is breaking down as seed disperser diversity, abundance, and movement decline worldwide.
Figure from the review article with several panels. The first shows declines in seed disperser species richness, body mass, movement, range size, and population size spanning ~6% to ~30% for each. The next shows that seed disperser species have higher proportions of threatened and endangered species than other groups of animals. The last three panels show maps of mammalian seed disperser losses due to extinction, losses and gains of range size, and potential losses of endangered animals. For each of these three maps, most regions have substantially lost seed dispersers, have seed dispersers that exist in smaller ranges, or have many endangered seed dispersers.
May 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM