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Incomplete recovery of tree community composition and rare species after 120 years of tropical forest succession in Panama. [PDF]

Biotropica
The late stages of tropical forest succession are understudied. Here we analyze tree community recovery over one of the oldest chronosequences in the Neotropics and find recovery of species diversity and forest structure, within 40 and 90 years respectively, but species community compositional recovery is slow, with one plot converging on old‐growth ...
Elsy AD, Pfeifer M, Jones IL, DeWalt SJ, Lopez OR, Dent DH.   +5 more
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Forest cover drives bird occupancy across guilds and habitats in a Colombian coffee‐farming landscape

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026.
Increasing landscape forest cover would improve occupancy for nearly all bird guilds using coffee and forest habitats in the Eastern Colombian Andes. Conserving forest and enhancing shade coffee are complementary–not interchangeable–strategies: landscape forest cover shapes the conditions under which farm‐scale habitat management can sustain diverse ...
Esteban Botero‐Delgadillo, Miguel Ángel Muñoz‐Amaya, Lilibeth Palacio‐Gómez, Sergio Danilo Santos, T. Scott Sillett, Ruth E. Bennett   +5 more
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Long‐term comparison shows protected and non‐protected forests differ in harvesting, but not in wildfires or drought‐driven dieback

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 2, February 2026.
Lower forest harvesting in Natura 2000 sites may align with socio‐economic barriers often claimed by local communities, but protection does not influence vulnerability to other disturbances. In a general scenario of reduced forest harvesting in the region, we argue that differences in harvesting due to protection are statistically significant but ...
Josep Maria Espelta, Alba Viana‐Soto, Roberto Molowny‐Horas, Miquel de Caceres, Miriam Selwyn, Mireia Banqué, Lluís Brotons, Francisco Lloret, Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta, Miriam Piqué, Cornelius Senf   +10 more
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Forest structure and connectivity drive the functional recovery of seed rain

Journal of Ecology, Volume 114, Issue 2, February 2026.
Local forest structure and landscape‐scale connectivity shape distinct but complementary pathways of the functional recovery of seed rain in tropical forests. Structural complexity promotes functionally diverse plant–frugivore interactions locally, while connectivity facilitates the arrival of late‐successional seeds from external sources.
Anna R. Landim, Santiago Erazo, Juan E. Guevara‐Andino, Santiago F. Burneo, María‐José Endara, Sebastian Escobar, Alexander Keller, Felicity L. Newell, Boris Tinoco, Marco Tschapka, Matthias Schleuning, Eike Lena Neuschulz   +11 more
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Trait‐based species selection for restoration: A case study from tropical landscapes dominated by bracken

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2026.
Our results can be used by stakeholders to select the species best suited for active restoration projects in bracken‐dominated areas throughout the tropical region. Furthermore, our trait‐based approach, which considers seedling performance in disturbed areas, can serve as a guide for species selection in restoration programmes in other disturbed ...
Silvia C. Gallegos, Cecilia L. López, Kazuya Naoki, Andrea Soliz, Alfredo F. Fuentes, Cesar Mayta, Leslie Cayola, J. Sebastian Tello, Isabell Hensen   +8 more
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Importancia de la heterogeneidad de hábitats para la biodiversidad de hormigas en los Andes de Colombia

Acta Agronómica, 2009
Entre marzo y octubre de 2002 se compararon los ensamblajes de hormigas que forrajean en el suelo en un sistema no manejado (reserva natural El Ciprés) y en algunas fincas vecinas. En dos transectos de 100 m se instalaron estaciones de muestreo cada 10 m
Mónica Ramírez Ramírez, James Montoya-Lerma, Inge Armbrecht   +2 more
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Successional and native forests predict the occurrence and infection status of Chagas disease vectors in Panama

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2026.
Findings here show that successional forest predicts greater kissing bug infestation risk in palm trees, whereas native forest predicts lower kissing bug occurrence but greater infection with T. cruzi. These insights can guide land use planning towards vegetation management practices that help minimize T. cruzi transmission risks for rural communities.
Juliana Hoyos, Azael Saldaña, Sonia Altizer, Vanessa Pineda, Kadir Gonzalez, Jose E. Calzada, Raissa Nogueira de Brito, Susan Tanner, Daniel Mendieta, Alberto Cumbrera, Nicole L. Gottdenker   +10 more
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Evaluación del estado sucesional de un bosque subtropical de quebradas en el norte de Uruguay

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2003
Con el objetivo de determinar el estado sucesional de una formación forestal subtropical luego de haber sido explotada selectivamente con fines madereros, se comparó la estructura actual de la misma con la de una zona contigua que no fue explotada y que ...
Grela Iván A.
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Relaciones entre la diversidad de aves y la estructura de vegetación en cuatro etapas sucesionales de bosque secundario, Antioquia, Colombia

Revista U.D.C.A Actualidad & Divulgación Científica, 2018
Se estudió la relación entre la diversidad taxonómica y funcional del ensamblaje de aves y la estructura de vegetación, en cuatro estadios de sucesión secundaria de bosque, realizando cinco muestreos, entre junio de 2016 y febrero de 2017, en los que se ...
Ángel David Salas-Correa, Néstor Javier Mancera-Rodríguez   +1 more
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Analysis of species pair associations combined with functional traits reveals the effects of environmental filtering and biotic interactions in an unmanaged temperate forest

Functional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 9, Page 2177-2192, September 2025.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract We investigated the drivers of interspecific spatial associations among forest woody species by analysing how environmental filtering, hierarchical competition, limiting similarity and colonisation effects shape functional trait distributions and vary with successional ...
Roxane Beyns, Jason Vleminckx, Thomas Drouet   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source