Assessing ecosystem services of invasive fruits and frugivores

• Grant number: 14/50434-0
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Regular Research Grants
• Duration: November 01, 2014 - October 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Mauro Galetti Rodrigues
• Grantee: Mauro Galetti Rodrigues
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project consists of 3 subprojects that aim to: (1) Create and analyze a database of frugivore interactions and exotic plants in the Atlantic Forest; (2) Understand the factors that favor the biological invasion of an invasive palm (Archontophoenix cunninghamiana) mediated by birds , and its role in the maintenance of frugivorous' birds; (3) Assess the role of a megafrugivore, feral pig (Sus scrofa), in seed dispersal, herbivory, trampling and soil disturbance in forest fragments. Through field experiments and naturalistic observations we will understand how these species are positively or negatively affecting the impoverished ecosystems in where they live. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BRADHAM, JENNIFER; JORGE, MARIA LUISA S. P.; PEDROSA, FELIPE; KEUROGHLIAN, ALEXINE; COSTA, VLADIMIR ELIODORO; BERCE, WILLIAM; GALETTI, MAURO. Spatial isotopic dietary plasticity of a Neotropical forest ungulate: the white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari). JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, v. 100, n. 2, p. 464-474, APR 24 2019. (15/22844-1, 14/50434-0, 16/15436-7, 15/18381-6, 14/01986-0)

DA ROSA, CLARISSA ALVES; WALLAU, MARCELO OSORIO; PEDROSA, FELIPE. Hunting as the Main Technique Used to Control Wild Pigs in Brazil. WILDLIFE SOCIETY BULLETIN, v. 42, n. 1, p. 111-118, MAR 2018. (15/18381-6, 14/50434-0)

PEDROSA, FELIPE; BERCE, WILLIAM; COSTA, VLADIMIR ELIODORO; LEVI, TAAL; GALETTI, MAURO. Diet of invasive wild pigs in a landscape dominated by sugar cane plantations. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY, v. 102, n. 5, p. 1309-1317, OCT 2021. (16/15436-7, 15/18381-6, 15/22844-1, 17/12925-0, 14/50434-0)

MAGIOLI, MARCELO; VILLAR, NACHO; JORGE, MARIA LUISA; BIONDO, CIBELE; KEUROGHLIAN, ALEXINE; BRADHAM, JENNIFER; PEDROSA, FELIPE; COSTA, VLADIMIR; MOREIRA, MARCELO ZACHARIAS; PASCHOALETTO MICCHI DE BARROS FERRAZ, KATIA MARIA; et al. Dietary expansion facilitates the persistence of a large frugivore in fragmented tropical forests. ANIMAL CONSERVATION, DEC 2021. (14/01986-0, 14/10192-7, 14/50434-0, 16/15436-7, 15/18381-6, 15/11521-7, 14/09300-0)

PEDROSA, FELIPE; BERCE, WILLIAM; LEVI, TAAL; PIRES, MATHIAS; GALETTI, MAURO. Seed dispersal effectiveness by a large-bodied invasive species in defaunated landscapes. Biotropica, v. 51, n. 6, OCT 2019. (14/50434-0, 16/15436-7, 15/22844-1, 15/18381-6)