Pioneers of post‐agricultural forest successions are adapted for herbivory avoidance but not biotic seed dispersal

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The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches

(2022) Fangyuan Hua et al.   SCIENCE

Forests from the grass: natural regeneration of woody vegetation in temperate marginal hill farmland under minimum interference management

(2022) David Pedley et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

The role of land‐use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests

(2021) Catarina C. Jakovac et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Excluding mammalian predators increases bird densities and seed dispersal in fenced ecosanctuaries

(2021) Sara P. Bombaci et al.   ECOLOGY

Immigration credit of temperate forest herbs in fragmented landscapes—Implications for restoration of habitat connectivity

(2021) Jörg Brunet et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Urgent need for updating the slogan of global climate actions from “tree planting” to “restore native vegetation”

(2021) Csaba Tölgyesi et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

What is the future of abandoned agricultural lands? A systematic review of alternative trajectories in Europe

(2021) Catherine M.J. Fayet et al.   LAND USE POLICY

Functional traits that moderate tropical tree recruitment during post‐windstorm secondary succession

(2020) Hao Ran Lai et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Divergence of riparian forest composition and functional traits from natural succession along a degraded river with multiple stressor legacies

(2020) Janssen Philippe et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Demographic trade-offs predict tropical forest dynamics

(2020) Nadja Rüger et al.   SCIENCE

Afforestation falls short as a biodiversity strategy

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Robustness of linear mixed‐effects models to violations of distributional assumptions

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Mapping the effectiveness of nature‐based solutions for climate change adaptation

(2020) Alexandre Chausson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Which landscape and abiotic site factors influence vegetation succession across seres at a country scale?

(2020) Kamila Vítovcová et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Forest structure and biomass in post‐agricultural forests: Lessons learned with new spatial tools

(2020) Kristen Brubaker et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Resource availability and disturbance shape maximum tree height across the Amazon

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Whither the forest transition? Climate change, policy responses, and redistributed forests in the twenty-first century

(2019) Thomas K. Rudel et al.   AMBIO

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

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Grounding nature-based climate solutions in sound biodiversity science

(2019) Nathalie Seddon et al.   Nature Climate Change

The Trouble with Trees: Afforestation Plans for Africa

(2019) William J. Bond et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Afforestation for climate change mitigation: Potentials, risks and trade‐offs

(2019) Jonathan C. Doelman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Forest Management for Carbon Sequestration and Climate Adaptation

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A review of the damage caused by invasive wild mammalian herbivores to primary production in New Zealand

(2019) A. David M. Latham et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Introduction of mammalian seed predators and the loss of an endemic flightless bird impair seed dispersal of the New Zealand tree Elaeocarpus dentatus

(2018) Joanna K. Carpenter et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Cumulative Drought Stress Leads to a Loss of Growth Resilience and Explains Higher Mortality in Planted than in Naturally Regenerated Pinus pinaster Stands

(2018) Rafael Navarro-Cerrillo et al.   Forests

Contingent factors explain average divergence in functional composition over 88 years of old field succession

(2018) Adam Thomas Clark et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Forest succession along a productivity gradient following fire exclusion

(2017) James D. Johnston   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Divergence in a Neotropical forest during 33 years of succession following clear-cutting

(2017) Samir G. Rolim et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Extinction debt and colonization credit delay range shifts of eastern North American trees

(2017) Matthew V. Talluto et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Paying the colonization credit: converging plant species richness in ancient and post-agricultural forests in NE Germany over five decades

(2016) Jens Kolk et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Natural regeneration as a tool for large-scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges

(2016) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   BIOTROPICA

Convergence and divergence in a long-term old-field succession: the importance of spatial scale and species abundance

(2016) Shao-peng Li et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Fire form and function: evidence for exaptive flammability in the New Zealand flora

(2016) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests

(2016) Fons van der Plas et al.   Nature Communications

Colonization credit of post-agricultural forest patches in NE Germany remains 130–230years after reforestation

(2015) Tobias Naaf et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

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Functional convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico

(2015) Robert Muscarella et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Tropical reforestation and climate change: beyond carbon

(2015) Bruno Locatelli et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Density-dependent effects of a widespread invasive herbivore on tree survival and biomass during reforestation

(2015) David M. Forsyth et al.   Ecosphere

Trophic Cascades in a Multicausal World: Isle Royale and Yellowstone

(2014) Rolf O. Peterson et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Propagating Uncertainty in Plot-based Estimates of Forest Carbon Stock and Carbon Stock Change

(2014) Robert J. Holdaway et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Disentangling drivers of tree population size distributions

(2014) Duane A. Peltzer et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Plant traits predict inter- and intraspecific variation in susceptibility to herbivory in a hyperdiverse Neotropical rain forest tree community

(2014) Rafael E. Cárdenas et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Deer Browsing Delays Succession by Altering Aboveground Vegetation and Belowground Seed Banks

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New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

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Successional changes in functional composition contrast for dry and wet tropical forest

(2013) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   ECOLOGY

Predicting species' maximum dispersal distances from simple plant traits

(2013) Riin Tamme et al.   ECOLOGY

Contrasting vulnerability and resilience to drought-induced decline of densely planted vs. natural rear-edge Pinus nigra forests

(2013) Raúl Sánchez-Salguero et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Plant functional diversity and carbon storage - an empirical test in semi-arid forest ecosystems

(2013) Georgina Conti et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional Traits Reveal Processes Driving Natural Afforestation at Large Spatial Scales

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When deer must die: large uncertainty surrounds changes in deer abundance achieved by helicopter- and ground-based hunting in New Zealand forests

(2013) David M. Forsyth et al.   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species

(2013) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   Nature Communications

Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity

(2012) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients

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Patterns of plant trait–environment relationships along a forest succession chronosequence

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Niche overlap reveals the effects of competition, disturbance and contrasting assembly processes in experimental grassland communities

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A dendrochronological analysis of a disturbance–succession model for oak–pine forests of the Appalachian Mountains, USA

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Interregional variation in the floristic recovery of post-agricultural forests

(2010) Pieter De Frenne et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Stand development moderates effects of ungulate exclusion on foliar traits in the forests of New Zealand

(2010) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Leaf palatability and decomposability increase during a 200-year-old post-cultural woody succession in New Zealand

(2010) Norman W.H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Seed dispersal systems in the New Zealand flora

(2009) Michael J. Thorsen et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Climate change mitigation: A spatial analysis of global land suitability for clean development mechanism afforestation and reforestation

(2008) Robert J. Zomer et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

The Potential of Tree Rings for the Study of Forest Succession in Southern Mexico

(2008) Roel J. W. Brienen et al.   BIOTROPICA

Testing the assumptions of chronosequences in succession

(2008) Edward A. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Does niche overlap control relative abundance in French lacustrine fish communities? A new method incorporating functional traits

(2008) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The benefits of being in a bad neighbourhood: plant community composition influences red deer foraging decisions

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