30 Years of postdisturbance recruitment in a Neotropical forest.

ABSTRACT:

Questions

Long-term community response to disturbance can follow manifold successional pathways depending on the interplay between various recruitment processes. Analyzing the succession of recruited communities provides a long-term perspective on forest response to disturbance. Specifically, postdisturbance recruitment trajectories assess (a) the successive phases of postdisturbance response and the role of deterministic recruitment processes, and (b) the return to predisturbance state of recruits taxonomic/functional diversity/composition.

Location

Amazonian rainforest, Paracou station, French Guiana.

Methods

We analyzed trajectories of recruited tree communities, from twelve forest plots of 6.25 ha each, during 30 years following a disturbance gradient that ranged

SUBMITTER: Mirabel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8571577 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature