Secondary forests are increasingly important components of human‐modified landscapes in
the tropics. Successional pathways, however, can vary enormously across and within …

Much information on restoration and management exists for wet tropical forests of Central
America but comparatively little work has been done in the dry forests of this region. Such …

Our understanding of the human and biophysical dimensions of tropical dry forest change
and its cumulative effects is still in the early stages of academic discovery. The papers in this …

Vegetation structure is a key determinant of ecosystems and ecosystem function, but
paleoecological techniques to quantify it are lacking. We present a method for reconstructing …

Central and South America tropical dry forest (TDF) is a water-limited biome with a high
number of endemic species and numerous ecosystem services which has experienced a …

Hyperspectral remote sensing provides great potential to monitor and study biodiversity of
tropical forests through species identification and map**. In this study, five species were …

Much of the dry tropical forest biome has been converted to agricultural land uses over the
past several centuries. However, in conservation areas such as those in the Guanacaste …

Traditionally Land Use Cover Change (LUCC) studies have focused on processes of
negative land-cover change, primarily deforestation, partially because examples of positive …

We investigated changes in species composition and structure of tree and liana
communities along a successional gradient in a seasonally dry tropical forest. There was a …

Research on tropical dry forest (TDF) succession i0s needed for effective conservation and
management of this threatened and understudied ecosystem. We used a highly replicated …