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Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specializatio...
Letcher, Susan G.; Lasky, Jesse R.; Chazdon, Robin L.; Norden, Natalia; Wright, Stuart Joseph; Meave, Jorge A.; Pérez-García, Eduardo A.; Muñoz, RodrigoSuccessional gradients are ubiquitous in nature, yet few studies have systematically examined the evolutionary origins of taxa that specialize at different successional stages. Here we quantify successional habitat specialization in Neotropical forest trees and evaluate its evolutionary lability along a precipitation gradient. Theoretically, successional habitat specialization should be more evolutionarily cons...
Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Lati...
Chazdon, Robin L.; Broadbent, Eben N.; Rozendaal, Danaë M.A.; Bongers, Frans; Zambrano, Angélica María Almeyda; Aide, T. Mitchell; Balvanera, PatriciaRegrowth of tropical secondary forests following complete or nearly complete removal of forest vegetation actively stores carbon in aboveground biomass, partially counterbalancing carbon emissions from deforestation, forest degradation, burning of fossil fuels, and other anthropogenic sources. We estimate the age and spatial extent of lowland second-growth forests in the Latin American tropics and model their p...
Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensi...
Réjou-Méchain, Maxime; Muller-Landau, Helene C.; Detto, Matteo; Thomas, Sean C.; Le-Toan, Thuy; Saatchi, Sassan S.; Barreto-Silva, Juan SebastianAdvances in forest carbon mapping have the potential to greatly reduce uncertainties in the global carbon budget and to facilitate effective emissions mitigation strategies such as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation). Though broad-scale mapping is based primarily on remote sensing data, the accuracy of resulting forest carbon stock estimates depends critically on the quality of ...