The study fifa coins looked at palm populations in the Brazilian Atlanticforest and concluded that the functional extinction of species of large fruit-eating birds like toucans correlated with "theconsistent reduction of the seed size of a keystone palmspecies.
The shrinking of the seeds of the Euterpe edulis palm wereexamined in parts of the forest fragmented by human activity, suchas deforestation and the cultivation of coffee plantations.
The palms in areas which are too small to support largefruit-eating birds suffer because the larger seeds cannot beredistributed effectively Unfortunately, the effect we document in our work is probablynot an isolated case, said the study's lead author MauroGaletti in a statement.
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