In human‐modified tropical landscapes (HML s) the conservation of biodiversity, functions
and services of forest ecosystems depends on persistence of old growth forest remnants …

Ecological succession–how biological communities re‐assemble and change over time
following natural or anthropogenic disturbance–has been studied since the birth of ecology …

Succession and community assembly research overlap in many respects, such as through
their focus on how ecological processes like dispersal, environmental filters, and biotic …

Over half of the world's forests are disturbed, and the rate at which ecosystem processes
recover after disturbance is important for the services these forests can provide. We analyze …

Many studies suggest that biodiversity may be particularly important for ecosystem
multifunctionality, because different species with different traits can contribute to different …

Abandonment of agricultural lands promotes the global expansion of secondary forests,
which are critical for preserving biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services. Such …

Soil resource partitioning and dispersal limitation have been shown to shape the tree
community structure of mature tropical forests, but are poorly studied in the context of forest …

Aboveground biomass is an important predictor of net primary productivity and provision of
ecosystem services such as carbon storage and food supply. However, biomass can be a …

Forests play an important role in regulating the global carbon cycle. Yet, how abiotic (ie soil
nutrients) and biotic (ie tree diversity, stand structure and initial biomass) factors …

Given the importance of species diversity as a tool for assessing recovery during forest
regeneration and active restoration, robust approaches for assessing changes in tree …