Forest structure drives changes in light heterogeneity during tropical secondary forest succession [PDF]
Journal of Ecology, 2021 Abstract Light is a key resource for tree performance and hence, tree species partition spatial and temporal gradients in light availability. Although light distribution drives tree performance and species replacement during secondary forest succession, we yet lack ...
Tomonari Matsuo +2 more
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Responses of Fine Roots at Different Soil Depths to Different Thinning Intensities in a Secondary Forest in the Qinling Mountains, China [PDF]
Biology, 2022 Fine roots make critical contributions to carbon stocks and terrestrial productivity, and fine roots with different diameters exhibit functional heterogeneity.
Yue Pang +4 more
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What Is Secondary about Secondary Tropical Forest? Rethinking Forest Landscapes [PDF]
Human Ecology, 2020 AbstractForests have long been locations of contestation between people and state bureaucracies, and among the knowledge frameworks of local users, foresters, ecologists, and conservationists. An essential framing of the debate has been between the categories of primary and secondary forest.
Adam Pain, Kristina Marquardt
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Soil viruses drive carbon turnover during subtropical secondary forest succession [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyIntroductionSoil viruses are increasingly recognized as key regulators of microbial ecology and ecosystem function, yet their roles in forest ecosystems, particularly during natural secondary succession, remain largely unexplored.MethodsWe examined soil ...
Xingyi Chen +9 more
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Secondary forest regeneration benefits old-growth specialist bats in a fragmented tropical landscape. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2018 Tropical forest loss and fragmentation are due to increase in coming decades. Understanding how matrix dynamics, especially secondary forest regrowth, can lessen fragmentation impacts is key to understanding species persistence in modified landscapes ...
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Secondary Forest Conversion Into Betel Nut Plantations Reduces Soil Water Retention by Altering Soil Properties [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionBetel nut plantations have rapidly expanded in recent decades owing to their considerable economic benefits, resulting in a significant reduction of tropical secondary rainforests, which has had substantial impacts on soil hydrological properties ...
Ruiyu Fu +7 more
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Tropical secondary forest regeneration conserves high levels of avian phylogenetic diversity [PDF]
Biological Conservation, 2017 Secondary forests are promoted as having pivotal roles in reversing the tropical extinction crisis. While secondary forests recover carbon and species over time, a key question is whether phylogenetic diversity—the total evolutionary history across all ...
Felicity Edwards +2 more
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The contrasting responses of abundant and rare microbial community structures and co-occurrence networks to secondary forest succession in the subalpine region [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Yongping Kou, Qing Liu
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Allometric models for aboveground biomass of ten tree species in northeast China [PDF]
Annals of Forest Research, 2013 China contains 119 million hectares of natural forest, much of whichis secondary forest. An accurate estimation of the biomass of these forests is imperative because many studies conducted in northeast China have only used primary forest and this may ...
Shuo Cai, Xingang Kang, Lixin Zhang
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Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 Significance Tropical forests disappear rapidly through deforestation but also have the potential to regrow naturally through a process called secondary succession. To advance successional theory, it is essential to understand how these secondary forests and their assembly vary across broad spatial scales. We do so by synthesizing continental-
Lourens Poorter +58 more
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