A large‐scale assessment of plant dispersal mode and seed traits across human‐modified Amazonian forests

Quantifying the impact of habitat disturbance on ecosystem function is critical to understanding and predicting the future of tropical forests. Many studies have examined post‐disturbance changes in animal traits related to mutualistic interactions with plants, but the effect of disturbance on plant traits in diverse forests has received much less attention. Focusing on two study regions in the eastern Brazilian Amazon, we used a trait‐based...