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In tropical and highly diverse systems, Seed Dispersal Effectiveness (SDE) is a very useful approach to investigating the role of seed dispersers in one of the most important and complex phases of plants by analysing the quantitative (QC) and qualitative (QL) components of the seed dispersal process. Although fishes are recognized as an important guild of frugivores in flooded environments, we still...
Severe droughts can lead to fires that cause massive tree mortality in even the wettest and most isolated Amazonian forests. After repeated fires, blackwater floodplain forests can remain in an open vegetation state of arrested succession that facilitates a transition towards a white‐sand ‘savanna‐like’ vegetation. These vegetation shifts, from closed‐canopy floodplain forests to open fire scars...