KnowraDefaunationLinked fromLinked fromThe 14 pages that link to Defaunation, each with the reason it gives.All 14Related 14BushmeatRelated: Intensive hunting can remove large mammals and other animals from forests.Biodiversity conservationRelated: Animal losses can disrupt pollination, seed dispersal, and other ecological processes.FrugivoryRelated: The loss of fruit-eating animals can leave large-seeded plants with fewer dispersers.PoachingRelated: Sustained poaching can remove wildlife and alter ecosystem interactions.FrugivoreRelated: The loss of fruit-eating animals can reduce seed dispersal and alter plant communities.OverexploitationRelated: Selective harvesting can remove animals and reshape the composition of ecosystems.Holocene extinctionRelated: Animal losses can transform ecosystems even where complete species extinction has not occurred.Illegal wildlife tradeRelated: Trade-driven hunting can empty ecosystems of animals even when habitats remain intact.Sustainable useRelated: Unsustainable harvest can reduce animal abundance and alter ecosystem functions.Sustainable harvestingRelated: Unsustainable hunting and fishing can remove animals faster than populations replace them.Fruit batRelated: Losing large fruit bats can weaken long-distance seed dispersal and forest recovery.MammalogyRelated: Its causes and effects are central questions for mammal conservation research.Subfossil lemurRelated: Lemur extinctions altered Madagascar's animal communities and ecological interactions.Wildlife ecologyRelated: Defaunation removes wildlife interactions that maintain ecological processes.