Persistent Effects of Landscape Context on Recruitment Dynamics During Secondary Succession of Tropical Forests.

ABSTRACT: Large-scale reforestation is promoted as an important strategy to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss. A persistent challenge for efforts to restore ecosystems at scale is how to accelerate ecological processes, particularly natural regeneration. Yet, despite being recognized as an important barrier to the recovery of diverse plant communities in tropical agricultural landscapes, the impacts of dispersal limitation on natural regeneration in secondary forests-and especially how this changes as these forests grow older-are still poorly studied. In a region where animals have been shown to be the dominant seed dispersers, we evaluate the impacts of proximity to a connected network of narrow streamside strips of forest (SSF) on recruitment in 1-40-year-old secondary forests. We used

SUBMITTER: van Breugel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11758763 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature