Endangered fruit-eating animals play an outsized role in a tropical forest; losing them could have dire consequences

Source: Science Daily

A new study shows that losing a particular group of endangered animals — those that eat fruit and help disperse the seeds of trees and other plants — could severely disrupt seed-dispersal networks in the Atlantic Forest, a shrinking stretch of tropical forest and critical biodiversity hotspot on the coast of Brazil.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/10/221012163427.htm