Based on our expectations of the greater vulnerability of large
frugivores to disturbances and on our knowledge of their life-history
traits, we predicted that in areas recovering from logging: (1)
large-bodied avian frugivores would be less abundant than smallbodied
avian frugivores, and (2) visitation rates of avian frugivores
(hereafter referred to as interaction strengths (Bascompte et al.,
2006)) would be lower, with the relative decrease being greatest
for (a) large-bodied avian frugivores and (b) large-seeded trees.
We also predicted that these effects would in turn cascade through
to the plant community level such that (3) biotically-dispersed species
would show reduced recruitment in areas recovering from logging,
and (4) amongst biotically-dispersed species, small-seeded
species would recruit better than large-seeded ones in logged areas.