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Doom of the elephant-dependent trees in a Congo tropical forest

2013-05-01

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In an evergreen lowland rain forest of the Cuvette Centrale, DR Congo, at the LuiKotale Max-Planck research site, forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) are close to extinction. Between January 2009 and June 2011 we investigated the influence of elephant decline on sustainability of elephant-dispersed tree populations.For this, we explored how trees with the megafaunal syndrome reproduce without seed dispersal by e...

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DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.12.041

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