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The potential of secondary forests
Science, 2015TROPICAL FORESTS ARE increasingly modified by human activities. Centuries of human–forest interactions have led to a diverse array of forest areas in different phases of succession. In recent decades, forest conversion to cattle pasture or agricultural fields, followed by land abandonment, has led to large areas of second-growth forest in the Amazon ...
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Journal of Tropical Ecology, 1990
ABSTRACTThe literature on tropical secondary forests, defined as those resulting from human disturbance (e.g. logged forests and forest fallows), is reviewed to address questions related to their extent, rates of formation, ecological characteristics, values and uses to humans, and potential for management.
Sandra Brown, Ariel E. Lugo
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ABSTRACTThe literature on tropical secondary forests, defined as those resulting from human disturbance (e.g. logged forests and forest fallows), is reviewed to address questions related to their extent, rates of formation, ecological characteristics, values and uses to humans, and potential for management.
Sandra Brown, Ariel E. Lugo
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Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 1995
The clearance, cultivation and abandonment of tropical forest lands has resulted in a rapid increase in the area of tropical secondary forests. Despite their growing extent, however, these forests have received relatively little attention from ecologists, foresters and conservationists.
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The clearance, cultivation and abandonment of tropical forest lands has resulted in a rapid increase in the area of tropical secondary forests. Despite their growing extent, however, these forests have received relatively little attention from ecologists, foresters and conservationists.
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Convergence During Secondary Forest Succession
The Journal of Ecology, 1984(1) Successional convergence in community composition was examined in terms of three questions: (i) for a given site is there a continuous shift in composition toward that characteristic of climax? (ii) does variation in community composition along an environmental gradient increase or decrease with succession?
N. L. Christensen, R. K. Peet
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Glomerulonephritis secondary to Barmah Forest virus infection
Medical Journal of Australia, 1997Clinical infection with Barmah Forest virus (BFV) is becoming increasingly recognised with serological testing. We report the first case of glomerulonephritis after BFV infection. The patient required diuretic and antihypertensive therapy, but made an almost complete recovery.
I A, Katz +5 more
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Unpacking the impoverished nature of secondary forests
Journal of Animal Ecology, 2012An ant worker of the genus Diacamma foraging in the understorey of a lowland rain forest in Papua New Guinea. These ants belong to the species usually nesting in aerial soil in the canopy of primary forest trees (Photo and copyright: M. Janda, www.newguineants.org).imageAn ant worker of the genus Diacamma foraging in the understorey of a lowland rain ...
Catherine L, Parr, Corey, Bradshaw
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Review Silviculture in Secondary Forests
2011Secondary forests are forests regenerating through natural processes after significant reduction in the original vegetation at a point in time or over an extended period, and displaying a major difference in forest structure and/or canopy species composition with respect to nearby primary forests on similar sites.
Shadrach Olufemi Akindele +1 more
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Secondary succession in two subtropical forests
Plant Ecology, 1999We studied secondary succession in two subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests near Shanghai, China that had been harvested 2–60 years earlier. Shrubs were thinned in one of the forests to about 60% of their original density for the first 20 years after harvesting. The other was not disturbed after harvesting. Five stands were sampled in each forest.
X. Li, S.D. Wilson, Y. Song
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Secondary forests are worth saving
Nature, 2009Biodiversity there isn't as rich as untouched rainforest, but should still be conserved, some argue.
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