Linking landscape features, anthropogenic stressors, and mammal abundance to unveil seed removal patterns in tropical deforested landscapes

Land use changes and related anthropogenic pressures are responsible for biodiversity declines and threaten the provision of ecosystem services, especially in tropical forests. Seed dispersal and predation, for example, are especially important ecological processes for shaping plant diversity and composition, however, they can be strongly affected by such changes. Understanding factors that limit seed removal and, consequently, the final seed fate in human-modified landscapes is vital to enhancing our knowledge of ecosystem functioning. By using structural equation models, we evaluated the direct and indirect effects of landscape structure, anthropogenic stressors, and abundance of terrestrial mammals on seed removal patterns of Eschweilera ovata (Lecythidaceae), a common large-seeded species, in 18 Atlantic Forest fragments in southern Bahia, Brazil. We used camera traps to record potential seed-removing mammals and spool line experiments to assess the ultimate fate of the seeds. We re..., Landscape data were collected using MapBiomas, and mammal community and seed removal data were collected using camera traps and real experiments, respectively. All data were collected in Atlantic Forest fragments in the state of Bahia, Brazil., , # Linking landscape features, anthropogenic stressors, and mammal abundance to unveil seed removal patterns in tropical deforested landscapes

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.d2547d8cv](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.d2547d8cv)

## Description of the data and file structure

Data from: Linking landscape features, anthropogenic stressors, and mammal abundance to unveil seed removal patterns in tropical deforested landscapes

### Files and variables

#### File: Rios\_et\_al\_Dryad.xlsx

##### Variables:

| Site | **Identification of the Atlantic Forest fragment where the data were collected** |
| :---------- | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| y | Latitude |
| x | Longitude |...,