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Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests
Rozendaal, Danaë M.A.; Bongers, Frans; Aide, T. Mitchell; Álvarez-Dávila, Esteban; Ascarrunz, Nataly L.; Balvanera, Patricia; Becknell, Justin M.Old-growth tropical forests harbor an immense diversity of tree species but are rapidly being cleared, while secondary forests that regrow on abandoned agricultural lands increase in extent. We assess how tree species richness and composition recover during secondary succession across gradients in environmental conditions and anthropogenic disturbance in an unprecedented multisite analysis for the Neotropics. S...
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 ...