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Conservation biology

forests that look intact but have lost most of their large animals to hunting, undermining ecological processes such as seed dispersal.

In conservation biology, empty forest syndrome refers to forests that look intact but have lost most of their large animals to hunting, undermining ecological processes such as seed dispersal. This meaning comes from Redford (1992) in BioScience.[1]

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conservation4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs forest2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs hunting1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Redford, K. H. (1992). The Empty Forest. BioScience, 42(6), 412-422. https://doi.org/10.2307/1311860

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