Natural regeneration as a tool for large‐scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges

RL Chazdon, MR Guariguata - Biotropica, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Multiple successional pathways in human‐modified tropical landscapes: new insights from forest succession, forest fragmentation and landscape ecology research

V Arroyo‐Rodríguez, FPL Melo… - Biological …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[ספר][B] Second growth: the promise of tropical forest regeneration in an age of deforestation

RL Chazdon - 2019‏ - degruyter.com
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

Roads, deforestation, and the mitigating effect of protected areas in the Amazon

CP Barber, MA Cochrane, CM Souza Jr… - Biological …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Roads have a major impact on Amazon deforestation. However, the effects of the rapidly
growing network of illegal or unofficial roads in the Amazon are usually not considered. We …

Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification

T Tscharntke, Y Clough, TC Wanger, L Jackson… - Biological …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Under the current scenario of rapid human population increase, achieving efficient and
productive agricultural land use while conserving biodiversity is a global challenge. There is …

An A mazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change

WF Laurance, JLC Camargo, PM Fearnside… - Biological …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
We synthesize findings from one of the world's largest and longest‐running experimental
investigations, the B iological D ynamics of F orest F ragments P roject (BDFFP). Spanning …

Maintaining ecosystem function and services in logged tropical forests

DP Edwards, JA Tobias, D Sheil, E Meijaard… - Trends in ecology & …, 2014‏ - cell.com
Vast expanses of tropical forests worldwide are being impacted by selective logging. We
evaluate the environmental impacts of such logging and conclude that natural timber …

Trees for life: The ecosystem service contribution of trees to food production and livelihoods in the tropics

J Reed, J van Vianen, S Foli, J Clendenning… - Forest Policy and …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Despite expanding interest in ecosystem service research over the past three decades, in-
depth understanding of the contribution of forests and trees to food production and …

[HTML][HTML] Forest Resources Assessment of 2015 shows positive global trends but forest loss and degradation persist in poor tropical countries

S Sloan, JA Sayer - Forest Ecology and Management, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 shows that deforestation has
slowed and afforestation has increased globally during 1990–2015. Planted forests have …

Progress in ecosystem services research: A guide for scholars and practitioners

AV Torres, C Tiwari, SF Atkinson - Ecosystem Services, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The study of ecosystem services enables the understanding of the services that ecosystems
provide at the landscape level by explaining the relationship between natural capital …