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American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, 6573(374), p. 1370-1376, 2021

DOI: 10.1126/science.abh3629

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Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

Journal article published in 2021 by Lourens Poorter ORCID, Dylan Craven ORCID, Catarina C. Jakovac ORCID, Masha T. van der Sande ORCID, Lucy Amissah ORCID, Frans Bongers ORCID, Robin L. Chazdon ORCID, Caroline E. Farrior ORCID, Stephan Kambach ORCID, Jorge A. Meave ORCID, Rodrigo Muñoz ORCID, Natalia Norden ORCID, Nadja Rüger ORCID, Michiel van Breugel ORCID, Angélica María Almeyda Zambrano and other authors.
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Abstract

Resilient secondary tropical forests? Although deforestation is rampant across the tropics, forest has a strong capacity to regrow on abandoned lands. These “secondary” forests may increasingly play important roles in biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation, and landscape restoration. Poorter et al . analyzed the patterns of recovery in forest attributes (related to soil, plant functioning, structure, and diversity) in 77 secondary forest sites in the Americas and West Africa. They found that different attributes recovered at different rates, with soil recovering in less than a decade and species diversity and biomass recovering in little more than a century. The authors discuss how these findings can be applied in efforts to promote forest restoration. —AMS