The role of land-use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests.

ABSTRACT: Secondary forests are increasingly important components of human-modified landscapes in the tropics. Successional pathways, however, can vary enormously across and within landscapes, with divergent regrowth rates, vegetation structure and species composition. While climatic and edaphic conditions drive variations across regions, land-use history plays a central role in driving alternative successional pathways within human-modified landscapes. How land use affects succession depends on its intensity, spatial extent, frequency, duration and management practices, and is mediated by a complex combination of mechanisms acting on different ecosystem components and at different spatial and temporal scales. We review the literature aiming to provide a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms

SUBMITTER: Jakovac CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8360101 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature