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June 05, 2013

Human activity echoes through Brazilian rainforest
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 05, 2013
The disappearance of large, fruit-eating birds from tropical forests in Brazil has caused the region's forest palms to produce smaller, less successful seeds over the past century, researchers say. The findings provide evidence that human activity can trigger fast-paced evolutionary changes in natural populations. Mauro Galetti from the Universidade Estadual Paulista in Sao Paulo, Brazil, along with an international team of colleagues, used patches of rainforest that had been fragmented by coffee ... read more

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