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Poorter, Lourens; Craven, Dylan; Jakovac, Catarina C.; van der Sande, Masha T.; Amissah, Lucy; Bongers, Frans; Chazdon, Robin L.; Farrior, Caroline E.; Kambach, Stephan; Meave, Jorge A.; Muñoz, Rodrigo; Norden, Natalia; Rüger, Nadja; van Breugel, Michiel; Almeyda Zambrano, Angélica María; Amani, Bienvenu; Andrade, José Luis; Brancalion, Pedro H. S.; Broadbent, Eben N.; de Foresta, Hubert; Dent, Daisy H.; Derroire, Géraldine; DeWalt, Saara J.; Dupuy, Juan M.; [...]

Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

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  • Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Multidimensional tropical forest recovery
  • Contributor: Poorter, Lourens; Craven, Dylan; Jakovac, Catarina C.; van der Sande, Masha T.; Amissah, Lucy; Bongers, Frans; Chazdon, Robin L.; Farrior, Caroline E.; Kambach, Stephan; Meave, Jorge A.; Muñoz, Rodrigo; Norden, Natalia; Rüger, Nadja; van Breugel, Michiel; Almeyda Zambrano, Angélica María; Amani, Bienvenu; Andrade, José Luis; Brancalion, Pedro H. S.; Broadbent, Eben N.; de Foresta, Hubert; Dent, Daisy H.; Derroire, Géraldine; DeWalt, Saara J.; Dupuy, Juan M.; [...]
  • imprint: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2021
  • Published in: Science
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1126/science.abh3629
  • ISSN: 0036-8075; 1095-9203
  • Keywords: Multidisciplinary
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  • Description: <jats:title>Resilient secondary tropical forests?</jats:title> <jats:p> Although deforestation is rampant across the tropics, forest has a strong capacity to regrow on abandoned lands. These “secondary” forests may increasingly play important roles in biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, and landscape restoration. Poorter <jats:italic>et al</jats:italic> . analyzed the patterns of recovery in forest attributes (related to soil, plant functioning, structure, and diversity) in 77 secondary forest sites in the Americas and West Africa. They found that different attributes recovered at different rates, with soil recovering in less than a decade and species diversity and biomass recovering in little more than a century. The authors discuss how these findings can be applied in efforts to promote forest restoration. —AMS </jats:p>