A major global effort to enable cost‐effective natural regeneration is needed to achieve
ambitious forest and landscape restoration goals. Natural forest regeneration can potentially …

Old‐growth tropical forests are being extensively deforested and fragmented worldwide. Yet
forest recovery through succession has led to an expansion of secondary forests in human …

Tropical forests disappear rapidly because of deforestation, yet they have the potential to
regrow naturally on abandoned lands. We analyze how 12 forest attributes recover during …

Atmospheric carbon dioxide records indicate that the land surface has acted as a strong
global carbon sink over recent decades,, with a substantial fraction of this sink probably …

Land-use change occurs nowhere more rapidly than in the tropics, where the imbalance
between deforestation and forest regrowth has large consequences for the global carbon …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

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

The Anthropocene is characterized as an epoch when human influence has begun to
fundamentally alter many aspects of the Earth system and many of the planet's biomes …

Chronosequences and associated space‐for‐time substitutions are an important and often
necessary tool for studying temporal dynamics of plant communities and soil development …

Although forest succession has traditionally been approached as a deterministic process,
successional trajectories of vegetation change vary widely, even among nearby stands with …