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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2012 In Amazon secondary forests are dominated by pioneer species that typically produce large amounts of small and dormant seeds that are able to form a persistent soil seed bank. Seed dormancy in this group of species is overcome by environmental conditions
Fabiana F. Aud, Isolde D.K. Ferraz
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Ecology and Society, 2009 With the increasing need to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations, afforestation and reforestation (A/R) projects are being implemented under the Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and under the voluntary carbon (C) market.
Alain Paquette +3 more
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Ecosphere, 2023 Secondary and plantation forests are the main alternative forests remaining after the deforestation of primary forests. Understanding the conservation value of secondary and plantation forests is important for biological conservation.
Xingcheng He +6 more
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Enhancing Plant Diversity in Secondary Forests [PDF]
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2020 Dispersal, recruitment and establishment limitations are crucial processes shaping forest composition. In secondary forests these mechanisms may operate differently than in mature forests, because young and isolated secondary forests may suffer stronger limitations due to a lack of suitable dispersers and harsh environmental conditions—such as the ...
Ana C. Palma +4 more
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Role of plant functional traits in determining vegetation composition of abandoned grazing land in north-eastern Victoria, Australia [PDF]
, 2008 Question: In the Northern Hemisphere, species with dispersal limitations are typically absent from secondary forests. In Australia, little is known about dispersal mechanisms and other traits that drive species composition within post-agricultural ...
Bell, T.L. +3 more
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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 ...
Matsuo, Tomonari +4 more
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Remote Sensing, 2023 The leaf area index (LAI) is a crucial indicator for quantifying forest productivity and community ecological processes. Satellite remote sensing can achieve large-scale LAI monitoring, but it needs to be calibrated and validated according to the in situ
Xiansheng Xie +5 more
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Tropical secondary forest regeneration conserves high levels of avian phylogenetic diversity [PDF]
, 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 ...
Aide +58 more
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Assessment of habitat quality and landscape connectivity for forest-dependent cracids in the Sierra Madre del Sur Mesoamerican biological corridor, Mexico [PDF]
, 2019 Assessing landscape connectivity allows us to identify critical areas that impede or facilitate the movement of organisms and their genes and to plan their conservation and management.
Castillo Santiago, Miguel Ángel +4 more
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Are we using the most appropriate methodologies to assess the sensitivity of rainforest biodiversity to habitat disturbance? [PDF]
, 2018 Accurately assessing how biodiversity responds in the Anthropocene is vital. To do so, a number of indicator taxa are commonly used to monitor human-impacted forests and the subsequent recovery of their biodiversity.
Braunholtz, L. +3 more
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