Are Primates Ecosystem Engineers?

Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers

1994 • 4,476 citations

Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers

1994 • 4,342 citations

Ecology of Seed Dispersal

1982 • 3,478 citations

Spatial patterns of seed dispersal, their determinants and consequences for recruitment

2000 • 2,011 citations

The ecology of arboreal folivores.

1978 • 1,427 citations

Advances in the Study of Behavior

1998 • 1,419 citations

Grazing as an Optimization Process: Grass-Ungulate Relationships in the Serengeti

1979 • 1,228 citations

Seed Dispersal and Frugivory : Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation

2002 • 1,118 citations

Sea Otters: Their Role in Structuring Nearshore Communities

1974 • 1,114 citations

Seed dispersal effectiveness revisited: a conceptual review

2010 • 990 citations

Qualitative Analysis of Insect Outbreak Systems: The Spruce Budworm and Forest

1978 • 936 citations

Quantity, quality and the effectiveness of seed dispersal by animals

1993 • 823 citations

Wolves and the Ecology of Fear: Can Predation Risk Structure Ecosystems?

2004 • 732 citations

Elephants and Fire as Causes of Multiple Stable States in the Serengeti-Mara Woodlands

1990 • 707 citations

The Statistical Analysis of Ecophysiological Response Curves Obtained from Experiments Involving Repeated Measures

1990 • 653 citations

Fruit characters as a basis of fruit choice and seed dispersal in a tropical forest vertebrate community

1985 • 649 citations

Primates in Perspective

2010 • 622 citations

Quantity, quality and the effectiveness of seed dispersal by animals

1993 • 619 citations

The Concept of Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers Ten Years On: Progress, Limitations, and Challenges

2006 • 546 citations

Elephants as Agents of Habitat and Landscape Change in East Africa

1970 • 530 citations

Serengeti Migratory Wildebeest: Facilitation of Energy Flow by Grazing

1976 • 460 citations

Ecosystem Engineering across Environmental Gradients: Implications for Conservation and Management

2006 • 372 citations

Forests without primates: Primate/plant codependency

1998 • 351 citations

Determinants of Plant-Animal Coevolution: The Case of Mutualistic Dispersal of Seeds by Vertebrates

1985 • 339 citations

Density compensation in neotropical primate communities: evidence from 56 hunted and nonhunted Amazonian forests of varying productivity

2000 • 321 citations

The myriad consequences of hunting for vertebrates and plants in tropical forests

2003 • 266 citations

The Bushmeat Harvest Alters Seedling Banks by Favoring Lianas, Large Seeds, and Seeds Dispersed by Bats, Birds, and Wind

2007 • 230 citations

Primate seed dispersal: Coevolution and conservation implications

1995 • 224 citations

The Guereza and Its Food

1977 • 222 citations

Forest Regeneration in Logged and Unlogged Forests of Kibale National Park, Uganda

1997 • 215 citations

A Comparative Study of the Feeding Strategies of Two Sympatric Species of Leaf Monkeys: Presbytis senex and Presbytis entellus

1977 • 214 citations

Primate Seed Dispersal: The Fate of Dispersed Seeds

1989 • 212 citations

Seed dispersal by forest chimpanzees in Uganda

1994 • 188 citations

Understanding long‐term primate community dynamics: implications of forest change

2010 • 185 citations

Ethology and Ecology of Sleep in Monkeys and Apes

1984 • 183 citations

Animal Influences on Ecosystem Dynamics

1988 • 175 citations

Route-based travel and shared routes in sympatric spider and woolly monkeys: cognitive and evolutionary implications

2007 • 172 citations

Resources and primate community structure

1999 • 172 citations

Bushmeat and the Fate of Trees with Seeds Dispersed by Large Primates in a Lowland Rain Forest in Western Amazonia

2007 • 166 citations

DIFFERENTIAL RESOURCE USE BY PRIMATES AND HORNBILLS: IMPLICATIONS FOR SEED DISPERSAL

2002 • 166 citations

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2000 • 152 citations

The Role of Mammals in Creating and Modifying Seedshadows in Tropical Forests and Some Possible Consequences of Their Elimination

2007 • 151 citations

Maintenance of tree diversity in tropical forests.

2002 • 150 citations

Fruit eating and seed dispersal by howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata) in the tropical rain forest of Los Tuxtlas, Mexico

1984 • 143 citations

Diurnal primate densities and biomass in the Kakamega Forest: An evaluation of census methods and a comparison with other forests

2000 • 141 citations

Variation in diet and ranging of black and white colobus monkeys in Kibale National Park, Uganda

2007 • 140 citations

Balanites wilsoniana: elephant dependent dispersal?

1992 • 134 citations

Evolutionary and ecological implications of primate seed dispersal

1998 • 133 citations

Do ungulates accelerate or decelerate nitrogen cycling?

2003 • 131 citations

Seed Dispersal by Baboons in the Shai Hills, Ghana

1979 • 130 citations

Modelling long‐distance seed dispersal in heterogeneous landscapes

2008 • 126 citations

Frugivores and seed dispersal: mechanisms and consequences for biodiversity of a key ecological interaction

2010 • 122 citations

Functional Groups of Ecosystem Engineers: A Proposed Classification with Comments on Current Issues

2010 • 120 citations

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1998 • 119 citations

Evolutionary and ecological implications of primate seed dispersal

1998 • 118 citations

Impact of Sloths on Neotropical Forest Energy Flow and Nutrient Cycling

1975 • 106 citations

BRIDGING THE GAP: INFLUENCE OF SEED DEPOSITION ON SEEDLING RECRUITMENT IN A PRIMATE–TREE INTERACTION

2003 • 101 citations

Sloth biology: an update on their physiological ecology, behavior and role as vectors of arthropods and arboviruses

2001 • 100 citations

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2002 • 99 citations

The effect of long-term exclusion of large herbivores on vegetation in Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda

1985 • 95 citations

Tropical tree community shifts: Implications for wildlife conservation

2009 • 90 citations

Spider monkey sleeping sites: Use and availability

1989 • 90 citations

Effects of mountain gorilla foraging activities on the productivity of their food plant species

1987 • 88 citations

Wolf presence and increased willow consumption by Yellowstone elk: implications for trophic cascades

2009 • 81 citations

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2003 • 79 citations

The Abundance of Large Ateline Monkeys is Positively Associated with the Diversity of Plants Regenerating in Neotropical Forests

2011 • 78 citations

The effects of trampling damage by herbivores on the vegetation of the Pare National des Volcans, Rwanda

1994 • 72 citations

Does the herb Acanthus pubescens and/or elephants suppress tree regeneration in disturbed Afrotropical forest?

2005 • 70 citations

The ecology of mangrove conservation & management

1995 • 69 citations

Ecosystem engineering: a trivialized concept?

2002 • 69 citations

Biological Conservation

1985 • 69 citations

THE EFFECTS OF HERBIVORE DENSITY ON SOIL NUTRIENTS AND TREE GROWTH IN TROPICAL FOREST FRAGMENTS

2005 • 69 citations

Generation of Spatial Patterns in Boreal Forest Landscapes

1999 • 68 citations

The ecology of mangrove conservation & management

1995 • 67 citations

Genetic Structure of a Mimosoid Tree Deprived of Its Seed Disperser, the Spider Monkey

2000 • 62 citations

Direct versus indirect effects of habitat reduction on the loss of avian species from tropical forest fragments

2008 • 58 citations

ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING BY A COLONIAL MAMMAL: HOW PRAIRIE DOGS STRUCTURE RODENT COMMUNITIES

2008 • 50 citations

Browse biomass production an.regrowth capacity after biomass loss in deciduous and coniferous trees: responses to moose browsing along a productivity gradient

2007 • 47 citations

SEASONAL MORTALITY PATTERNS IN NON-HUMAN PRIMATES: IMPLICATIONS FOR VARIATION IN SELECTION PRESSURES ACROSS ENVIRONMENTS

2012 • 47 citations

Ecosystem engineering: a trivialized concept?

2002 • 42 citations

Genetic Structure of a Mimosoid Tree Deprived of Its Seed Disperser, the Spider Monkey

2000 • 41 citations

The Effect of Hurricane Iris on the Food Supply of Black Howlers (Alouatta pigra) in Southern Belize¹

2005 • 40 citations

Effectiveness of seed dispersal by Cercopithecus monkeys: implications for seed input into degraded areas.

2002 • 37 citations

Migration, Diet, or Molt? Interpreting Stable‐Hydrogen Isotope Values in Neotropical Bats

2010 • 33 citations

Massive Destruction of Symphonia globulifera (Clusiaceae) Flowers by Central American Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)¹

2005 • 31 citations

Cebus Monkeys: Effect on Branching of Gustavia Trees

1969 • 31 citations

The impact of red howler monkey latrines on the distribution of main nutrients and on topsoil profiles in a tropical rain forest

2009 • 30 citations

The Influence of Leaf-Monkeys on their Feeding Trees in a Cyclone-Disturbed Environment

1985 • 23 citations

Experimental closure of footpaths in a woodland national nature reserve in Scotland

1982 • 12 citations