Authors
Jose M Fedriani, Thorsten Wiegand, Daniel Ayllón, Francisco Palomares, Alberto Suárez‐Esteban, Volker Grimm
Publication date
2018/3
Journal
Journal of applied ecology
Volume
55
Issue
2
Pages
600-611
Description
- Increasing land abandonment in many areas of the world presents an opportunity for ecosystem recovery, which is often driven by seed dispersal by vertebrate frugivores. However, we are far from understanding the most effective way of using common management actions (i.e. planting fruiting trees) to stimulate animal seed dispersal and thus the restoration of human‐altered abandoned habitats.
- To investigate how to stimulate animal seed dispersal, we combined long‐term field data with individual‐based, spatially explicit simulation models. We used our approach to assess the effectiveness of contrasting Iberian pear Pyrus bourgaeana planting strategies in enhancing restoration of abandoned lands through seed dispersal by red foxes Vulpes vulpes and Eurasian badgers Meles meles in the Doñana World Biosphere Reserve (South West Spain).
- Our simulation results indicate that planting trees in an …
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JM Fedriani, T Wiegand, D Ayllón, F Palomares… - Journal of applied ecology, 2018