Supplementary material from "The demography of a resource specialist in the tropics: Cecropia trees and the fitness of three-toed sloths"
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Resource specialists persist in a narrow range of resources. Consequently, the abundance of key resources should drive vital rates, individual fitness and population viability. While neotropical forests feature both high levels of biodiversity and numbers of specialist species, no studies have directly evaluated how the variation of key resources affects the fitness of a tropical specialist. Here, we quantified the effect of key tree species density and forest cover on the fitness of three-toed sloths (Bradypus variegatus), an arboreal folivore strongly associated with Cecropia trees, in Costa Rica using a multi-year demographic, genetic and space-use dataset. We found that the density of Cecropia trees was strongly and positively related to both adult survival and reproductive output. A matrix model parametrized with Cecropia-demography relationships suggested positive growth of sloth populations, even at low densities of Cecropia (0.7 trees ha−1). Our study shows the first direct link between the density of a key resource to demographic consequences of a tropical specialist, underscoring the sensitivity of tropical specialists to the loss of a single key resource, but also point to targeted conservation measures to increase that resource. Finally, our study reveals that previously disturbed and regenerating environments can support viable populations of tropical specialists.
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Garcés-Restrepo, Mario F.; Zachariah Peery, M.; N. Pauli, Jonathan (2018). Supplementary material from "The demography of a resource specialist in the tropics: Cecropia trees and the fitness of three-toed sloths". The Royal Society. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4339448.v1
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Mario F. Garcés-Restrepo
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M. Zachariah Peery
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Jonathan N. Pauli