Isolated trees as nuclei of regeneration in tropical pastures: testing the importance of niche-based and landscape factors

The Effects of Established Trees on Woody Regeneration during Secondary Succession in Tropical Dry Forests

(2016) Géraldine Derroire et al.   BIOTROPICA

Testing predictions of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival

(2014) Liza S. Comita et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Pasture succession in the Neotropics: extending the nucleation hypothesis into a matrix discontinuity hypothesis

(2014) Chris J. Peterson et al.   OECOLOGIA

Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities

(2014) Mark Vellend et al.   OIKOS

Remnant Trees Affect Species Composition but Not Structure of Tropical Second-Growth Forest

(2014) Manette E. Sandor et al.   PLoS One

Roles of Birds and Bats in Early Tropical-Forest Restoration

(2014) Marinés de la Peña-Domene et al.   PLoS One

Contrasting changes in taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity during a long-term succession: insights into assembly processes

(2013) Oliver Purschke et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional regeneration and spectral reflectance of trees during succession in a highly diverse tropical dry forest ecosystem

(2012) Mariana Y. Alvarez-Añorve et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

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

Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity

(2011) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Applied nucleation as a forest restoration strategy

(2011) Jeffrey D. Corbin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Dispersal mode, shade tolerance, and phytogeographical affinity of tree species during secondary succession in tropical montane cloud forest

(2011) Miguel Angel Muñiz-Castro et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Delineation of secondary succession mechanisms for tropical dry forests using LiDAR

(2011) Mauricio Castillo-Núñez et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Functional traits and environmental filtering drive community assembly in a species-rich tropical system

(2010) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   ECOLOGY

Restoration of dry tropical forests in Central America: A review of pattern and process

(2010) Heather P. Griscom et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Plant functional type classifications in tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: leaf habit versus taxonomic approaches

(2010) Jennifer S. Powers et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Testing for the influence of niche and neutral factors on sapling community assembly beneath isolated woody plants in grasslands

(2010) Leandro da S. Duarte et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Early seed fall and seedling emergence: precursors to tropical restoration

(2010) Henry F. Howe et al.   OECOLOGIA

Pathways, mechanisms and predictability of vegetation change during tropical dry forest succession

(2010) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

The Potential for Species Conservation in Tropical Secondary Forests

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

A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems

(2009) Alain F. Zuur et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Birds as agents of seed dispersal in a human-dominated landscape in southern Costa Rica

(2008) Liba Pejchar et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Seedling Traits Determine Drought Tolerance of Tropical Tree Species

(2008) Lourens Poorter et al.   BIOTROPICA

Deforestation and forest restoration in Guanacaste, Costa Rica: Putting conservation policies in context

(2008) J. Calvo-Alvarado et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

'Nucleating’ succession in recovering neotropical wet forests: The legacy of remnant trees

(2008) Justin R. Schlawin et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Creating woodland islets to reconcile ecological restoration, conservation, and agricultural land use

(2007) José M Rey Benayas et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT