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Linking vegetation and soil functions during secondary forest succession in the Atlantic forest [PDF]
Forest Ecology and Management, 2020 Abstract Secondary forest succession can be an effective and low-cost strategy to increase forest cover and the associated biodiversity and soil functions. However, little is known about how soil functions develop during succession, and how vegetation attributes influence soil functions, especially in highly biodiverse and fragmented landscapes in ...
Teixeira, Heitor Mancini +5 more
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Impact of Fire on Secondary Forest Succession in a Sub-Tropical Landscape
Forests, 2023 In Hong Kong, as in many tropical areas, grasslands are maintained by fire on disturbed and abandoned land. However, Hong Kong’s native forests are regenerating in many areas, alongside frequent burning of the hillsides, and are in different stages of structural succession to closed canopy forest patches.
Syed Muhammad Irteza, Sawaid Abbas
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Functional analysis of secondary tropical dry forests in a region of the Colombia, Caribbean [PDF]
, 2013 Secondary tropical forests are increasingly recognized for their role conserving biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and this role is especially important for seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF), one of the most threatened tropical forested ...
Castellanos Castro, C
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Riparian buffers provide refugia during secondary forest succession
Diversity and Distributions, 2022 AbstractAimSecondary forests regenerating from human disturbance are increasingly becoming a predominant forest type in many regions, and they play a significant role in forest community dynamics. Understanding the factors that underlie the variation in species responses during secondary succession is important for understanding community assembly and ...
Michelle E. Thompson +2 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Soil microbes play a crucial role in a forest ecosystem. However, whether the distribution of bacteria and fungi in different forest succession stages is random or following ecological specialization remains to be further studied.
Peikun Li +10 more
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A Remote Sensing Approach to Understanding Patterns of Secondary Succession in Tropical Forest [PDF]
Remote Sensing, 2021 Monitoring biodiversity on a global scale is a major challenge for biodiversity conservation. Field assessments commonly used to assess patterns of biodiversity and habitat condition are costly, challenging, and restricted to small spatial scales.
Eric Chraibi +5 more
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Biology, 2021 Successional dynamics of plants and animals during tropical forest regeneration have been thoroughly studied, while fungal compositional dynamics during tropical forest succession remain unknown, despite the crucial roles of fungi in ecological processes.
Irene Adamo +5 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 IntroductionThe grasslands in the Nature Reserve of Ganshenling, in the south of Hainan Island, were first formed after deforestation disturbance before a natural restoration of shrubs and secondary forests. However, the stages of grassland and shrubs in
Huai Yang +6 more
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Functional trait strategies of trees in dry and wet tropical forests are similar but differ in their consequences for succession. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Global plant trait studies have revealed fundamental trade-offs in plant resource economics. We evaluated such trait trade-offs during secondary succession in two species-rich tropical ecosystems that contrast in precipitation: dry deciduous and wet ...
Madelon Lohbeck +5 more
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Large-vertebrate assemblages of primary and secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon. [PDF]
, 2007 Secondary forests account for 40% of all tropical forests yet little is known regarding their suitability as habitat for diurnal large mammals and game birds. This is especially so for second-growth that develops on large areas of degraded land.
Peres, Carlos A. +2 more
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