Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning

(2017) Tomislav Hengl et al.   PLoS One

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation

(2016) Jos Barlow et al.   NATURE

Resilience of tropical dry forests - a meta-analysis of changes in species diversity and composition during secondary succession

(2016) Géraldine Derroire et al.   OIKOS

Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

(2016) R. L. Chazdon et al.   Science Advances

Multiple successional pathways in human-modified tropical landscapes: new insights from forest succession, forest fragmentation and landscape ecology research

(2015) Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Amazon Rain Forest Succession: Stochasticity or Land-Use Legacy?

(2015) Rita de Cássia Guimarães Mesquita et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Biomass is the main driver of changes in ecosystem process rates during tropical forest succession

(2015) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   ECOLOGY

Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

(2015) L. Poorter et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: a test case with 14 Neotropical forest sites

(2015) Susan G. Letcher et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Loss of secondary-forest resilience by land-use intensification in the Amazon

(2015) Catarina C. Jakovac et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

(2015) J. W. Ferry Slik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tree Species Composition, Breeding Systems, and Pollination and Dispersal Syndromes in Three Forest Successional Stages in a Tropical Dry Forest in Mesoamerica

(2015) Branko Hilje et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

(2015) H. ter Steege et al.   Science Advances

An improved nonparametric lower bound of species richness via a modified good-turing frequency formula

(2014) Chun-Huo Chiu et al.   BIOMETRICS

Testing Chronosequences through Dynamic Approaches: Time and Site Effects on Tropical Dry Forest Succession

(2014) Francisco Mora et al.   BIOTROPICA

Atlantic rain forest recovery: successional drivers of floristic and structural patterns of secondary forest in Southern Brazil

(2014) K. J. Zanini et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Carbon stocks and accumulation rates in tropical secondary forests at the scale of community, landscape and forest type

(2013) D.E. Orihuela-Belmonte et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Succession of Ephemeral Secondary Forests and Their Limited Role for the Conservation of Floristic Diversity in a Human-Modified Tropical Landscape

(2013) Michiel van Breugel et al.   PLoS One

Carbon pools recover more quickly than plant biodiversity in tropical secondary forests

(2013) P. A. Martin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

On the hope for biodiversity-friendly tropical landscapes

(2013) Felipe P.L. Melo et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Secondary forests of central Panama increase in similarity to old-growth forest over time in shade tolerance but not species composition

(2012) Daisy H. Dent et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Convergence and divergence in alternative successional pathways in Central Amazonia

(2012) G. Bruce Williamson et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Patterns and Correlates of Tropical Dry Forest Structure and Composition in a Highly Replicated Chronosequence in Yucatan, Mexico

(2011) Juan Manuel Dupuy et al.   BIOTROPICA

Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

(2011) Luke Gibson et al.   NATURE

Secondary forests on anthropogenic soils in Brazilian Amazonia conserve agrobiodiversity

(2010) André Braga Junqueira et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity

(2010) C. Hoorn et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid Recovery of Biomass, Species Richness, and Species Composition in a Forest Chronosequence in Northeastern Costa Rica

(2009) Susan G. Letcher et al.   BIOTROPICA

The Potential for Species Conservation in Tropical Secondary Forests

(2009) ROBIN L. CHAZDON et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis applies to tropical forests, but disturbance contributes little to tree diversity

(2009) Frans Bongers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Resilience of tropical rain forests: tree community reassembly in secondary forests

(2009) Natalia Norden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world

(2009) Toby A. Gardner et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Changes in tree and liana communities along a successional gradient in a tropical dry forest in south-eastern Brazil

(2009) Bruno G. Madeira et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Successional Change and Resilience of a Very Dry Tropical Deciduous Forest Following Shifting Agriculture

(2008) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   BIOTROPICA

Diversity and structure of regenerating tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: Geographic patterns and environmental drivers

(2008) Jennifer S. Powers et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT