Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

Poorter, Lourens; Craven, Dylan; C. Jakovac, Catarina; T. van der Sande, Masha; Amissah, Lucy; Bongers, Frans; L. Chazdon, Robin; E. Farrior, Caroline; Kambach, Stephan; A. Meave, Jorge; Muñoz, Rodrigo; Norden, Natalia; Rüger, Nadja; van Breugel, Michiel; M. Almeyda Zambrano, Angélica; H.K. Amani, Bienvenu; Luís Andrade, José; H. S. Brancalion, Pedro; N. Broadbent, Eben; de Foresta, Hubert; H. Dent, Daisy; Derroire, Géraldine; J. DeWalt, Saara; Manuel Dupuy, Juan; M. Durán, Sandra; Celso Fantini, Alfredo; Finegan, Bryan; Hernández‐Jaramillo, Alma; Luis Hernández‐Stefanoni, José; Hietz, Peter; Braga Junqueira, André; Kassi N’Dja, Justin; G. Letcher, Susan; Lohbeck, Madelon; López Camacho, René; Martı́nez-Ramos, Miguel; P. L. Melo, Felipe; Mora, Francisco; Cristina Müller, Sandra; Estelle N’Guessan, Anny; Oberleitner, Florian; Ortíz‐Malavassi, Edgar; A. Pérez‐García, Eduardo; X. Pinho, Bruno; Piotto, Daniel; S. Powers, Jennifer; Rodríguez‐Buriticá, Susana; M. A. Rozendaal, Danaë; Ruíz, Jorge; Tabarelli, Marcelo; Mancini Teixeira, Heitor; Valadares de Sá Barretto Sampaio, Everardo; van der Wal, Hans; Manuel Villa, Pedro; Wilson Fernandes, Geraldo; Almeida Santos, Bráulio; Aguilar‐Cano, José; Silva de Almeida‐Cortez, Jarcilene; Álvarez‐Dávila, Esteban; Arreola-Villa, Felipe; Balvanera, Patricia; M. Becknell, Justin; A. L. Cabral, George; Castellanos‐Castro, Carolina; de Jong, Ben; Nieto, Jhon; M. Espírito‐Santo, Mário; Claudia Fandiño, María; García, Hernando; García‐Villalobos, Daniel; S. Hall, Jefferson; Idárraga, Álvaro; Jiménez‐Montoya, Jáider; Kennard, Deborah; Marín-Spiotta, E.; C. G. Mesquita, Rita; Roberta Ferreira Nunes, Yule; Ochoa‐Gaona, Susana; Peña‐Claros, Marielos; Pérez-Cárdenas, Nathalia; Rodríguez‐Velázquez, Jorge; Sanaphre‐Villanueva, Lucía; B. Schwartz, Naomi; K. Steininger, Marc; das Dores Magalhães Veloso, Maria; F. M. Vester, Henricus; Célia Guimarães Vieira, Ima; Bruce Williamson, G.; Janaína Zanini, Kátia; Hérault, Bruno

doi:10.1126/science.abh3629

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Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

Published in Science • Dec 9, 2021

Authors:

Lourens Poorter

Dylan Craven

Catarina C. Jakovac

Abstract

Tropical forests disappear rapidly because of deforestation, yet they have the potential to regrow naturally on abandoned lands. We analyze how 12 forest attributes recover during secondary succession and how their recovery is interrelated using 77 sites across the tropics. Tropical forests are high...

Subject

Biodiversity

Ecological succession

Deforestation (computer science)

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