Multidimensional tropical forest recovery
Copyright policy )Multidimensional tropical forest recovery
Resilient secondary tropical forests? 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 et al . 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
- National University of Singapore Singapore
- University of Minnesota Morris United States
- Département Sciences sociales, agriculture et alimentation, espace et environnement France
- University of Connecticut United States
- University of Montpellier France
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