It is not just about time: Agricultural practices and surrounding forest cover affect secondary forest recovery in agricultural landscapes

Fostering natural forest regeneration on former agricultural land through economic and policy interventions

(2020) Robin Chazdon et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A large‐scale assessment of plant dispersal mode and seed traits across human‐modified Amazonian forests

(2020) Joseph E. Hawes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

(2019) Danaë M. A. Rozendaal et al.   Science Advances

The systematic dismantling of Brazilian environmental laws risks losses on all fronts

(2019) Denis Abessa et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Exotic eucalypts: from demonized trees to allies of tropical forest restoration?

(2019) Pedro H.S. Brancalion et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

A new approach to map landscape variation in forest restoration success in tropical and temperate forest biomes

(2019) Renato Crouzeilles et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Assessing the growth and climate sensitivity of secondary forests in highly deforested Amazonian landscapes

(2019) Fernando Elias et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil properties and neighbouring forest cover affect above-ground biomass and functional composition during tropical forest restoration

(2018) Renato Miazaki Toledo et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Landscape-scale lidar analysis of aboveground biomass distribution in secondary Brazilian Atlantic Forest

(2018) Justin M. Becknell et al.   BIOTROPICA

Early ecological outcomes of natural regeneration and tree plantations for restoring agricultural landscapes

(2018) Ricardo G. César et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Carbon-focused conservation may fail to protect the most biodiverse tropical forests

(2018) Joice Ferreira et al.   Nature Climate Change

Second rate or a second chance? Assessing biomass and biodiversity recovery in regenerating Amazonian forests

(2018) Gareth D Lennox et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The neotropical reforestation hotspots: A biophysical and socioeconomic typology of contemporary forest expansion

(2018) A. Sofía Nanni et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Spatial determinants of Atlantic Forest loss and recovery in Brazil

(2017) Paulo G. Molin et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Ecological restoration success is higher for natural regeneration than for active restoration in tropical forests

(2017) Renato Crouzeilles et al.   Science Advances

A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology

(2016) Caroline M. Tucker et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Natural forest regeneration and ecological restoration in human-modified tropical landscapes

(2016) Miguel Martínez-Ramos et al.   BIOTROPICA

Local tropical forest restoration strategies affect tree recruitment more strongly than does landscape forest cover

(2016) Karen D. Holl et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Effects of landscape configuration and composition on phylogenetic diversity of trees in a highly fragmented tropical forest

(2016) Fabio Antonio R. Matos et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Forest age and isolation affect the rate of recovery of plant species diversity and community composition in secondary rain forests in tropical Australia

(2016) Miriam Goosem et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Soil degradation and feedback processes affect long-term recovery of tropical secondary forests

(2016) Siew Chin Chua et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation

(2016) Jos Barlow et al.   NATURE

Anthropogenic disturbances jeopardize biodiversity conservation within tropical rainforest reserves

(2016) Miguel Martínez-Ramos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A global meta-analysis on the ecological drivers of forest restoration success

(2016) Renato Crouzeilles et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

Ecological disturbance regimes caused by agricultural land uses and their effects on tropical forest regeneration

(2015) Isela Zermeño-Hernández et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Atlantic Forest spontaneous regeneration at landscape scale

(2015) Camila Linhares de Rezende et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

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

(2015) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   ECOLOGY

Model averaging and muddled multimodel inferences

(2015) Brian S. Cade   ECOLOGY

Effects of soil conditions on the diversity of tropical forests across a successional gradient

(2015) Kelly Geronazzo Martins et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Would protecting tropical forest fragments provide carbon and biodiversity cobenefits under REDD+?

(2015) Luiz Fernando S. Magnago et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Successional dynamics in Neotropical forests are as uncertain as they are predictable

(2015) Natalia Norden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Forest fragment spatial distribution matters for tropical tree conservation

(2014) Jia-Jia Liu et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

(2014) Jérôme Chave et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How good are tropical forest patches for ecosystem services provisioning?

(2014) Silvio F. B. Ferraz et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Köppen's climate classification map for Brazil

(2014) Clayton Alcarde Alvares et al.   METEOROLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT

Restoration Reserves as Biodiversity Safeguards in Human-Modified Landscapes

(2014) Pedro H. S. Brancalion et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

Cracking Brazil's Forest Code

(2014) B. Soares-Filho et al.   SCIENCE

Cheap carbon and biodiversity co-benefits from forest regeneration in a hotspot of endemism

(2014) James J. Gilroy et al.   Nature Climate Change

Optimizing landscape selection for estimating relative effects of landscape variables on ecological responses

(2013) Jon Pasher et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

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

Modeling psychophysical data at the population-level: The generalized linear mixed model

(2012) A. Moscatelli et al.   JOURNAL OF VISION

Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services

(2010) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Priority areas for the conservation of Atlantic forest large mammals

(2009) Mauro Galetti et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

(2009) Susan G. Letcher et al.   BIOTROPICA

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

(2009) Natalia Norden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Disturbance Alters the Phylogenetic Composition and Structure of Plant Communities in an Old Field System

(2009) Russell Dinnage   PLoS One

Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution

(2008) Campbell O. Webb et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

EXPANSION OF SUGARCANE ETHANOL PRODUCTION IN BRAZIL: ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL CHALLENGES

(2008) Luiz A. Martinelli et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Fire-mediated dieback and compositional cascade in an Amazonian forest

(2008) J. Barlow et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES