Figure 4: Variation in relative abundances of animal-dispersed species across major tropical forest regions.
From: Contrasting effects of defaunation on aboveground carbon storage across the global tropics
The box-and-whisker plots show that tropical forest tree communities in most regions have high-relative abundances of animal-dispersed species, with the exception of Southeast Asia where some communities comprise over 50% abiotically dispersed species. Numbers below boxes represent the number of sites from which data were obtained for each continent (see Supplementary Fig. 5 and Supplementary References 1–44 for more details).
