Alternative successional pathways in the Amazon Basin

By Rita C. G. Mesquita, Kalan Ickes, G. Ganade, G. Williamson. 2001

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Subfields: Forestry, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Natural Regeneration in Plantations of Native Trees in Lowland Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Community Structure, Diversity, and Dispersal Syndromes (2011, background): “Furthermore, the overstory structure and species composition can improve seed rain (Barbosa & Pizo 2006; Zamora & Montagnini 2007) and consequently affect the species composition of naturally regenerating vegetation (Powers et al. 1997; Mesquita et al. 2001).”
Community dynamics during early secondary succession in Mexican tropical rain forests (2006, background): “…concern of studies of secondary forest, and important advances in linking such variation with environmental heterogeneity and land-use history has been made (Aide et al. 1996, Chinea & Helmer 2003, Ferguson et al. 2003, Mesquita et al. 2001, Pascarella et al. 2000, Purata 1986, Uhl et al. 1988).”
Species Dynamics During Early Secondary Forest Succession: Recruitment, Mortality and Species Turnover (2007, neutral): “…factors such as soil characteristics (e.g., Donfack et al. 1995, Chinea 2002, Lu et al. 2002), previous land-use (e.g., Uhl et al. 1988, Pascarella et al. 2000), distance to seed sources (e.g., Purata 1986, Mesquita et al. 2001), and characteristics of dominant species (Mesquita et al. 2001).”
Effects of different secondary vegetation types on bat community composition in Central Amazonia, Brazil (2010, background): “In abandoned deforested areas, where the forest has been cut only for timber extraction, the regeneration is dominated by Cecropia species, while in deforested areas that have been converted to cattle pasture, followed by periodic burns, secondary succession is dominated by species of Vismia (Uhl et”
Secondary forests on anthropogenic soils in Brazilian Amazonia conserve agrobiodiversity (2010, background): “Different types of land use may result in different assemblages of species that colonize the site (Mesquita et al. 2001), and during succession the vegetation may undergo several types of human intervention that add or eliminate some species according to a desired objective (Denevan and Padoch…”
Pathways, mechanisms and predictability of vegetation change during tropical dry forest succession (2010, background): “4j) suggests that their recruitment into the canopy is not limited by the creation of canopy gaps, as in deeply shaded temperate and tropical forests (Oliver and Larson, 1996; Mesquita et al., 2001).”
FACTORS AFFECTING COMMUNITY COMPOSITION OF FOREST REGENERATION IN DEFORESTED, ABANDONED LAND IN PANAMA (2004, background): “Similarly, at Amazonian sites, Cecropia species dominate the seed bank and the seedling communities regenerating after disturbance; however, if fire is present Cecropia species are extinguished as a component of the regeneration (Didham and Lawton 1999, Mesquita et al. 2001).”
Restoring tropical diversity: beating the time tax on species loss (2003, background): “A few early pioneers such as Cecropia (Moraceae), Croton (Euphorbiaceae), Trema and Vismia (Guttiferae), hold ground for 20‐30 years, to be replaced by such longer-lived late pioneers as Cordia (Boraginaceae), Goupia (Goupiaceae), Guazuma (Sterculiaceae), Laetia (Flacourtiaceae), Rollinia (Annonacea”
Consequences of a large-scale fragmentation experiment for Neotropical bats: disentangling the relative importance of local and landscape-scale effects (2016, background): “The matrix is composed of tall secondary forest dominated mainly by Vismia spp. and Cecropia spp. (Mesquita et al 2001).”
Litterfall Dynamics Under Different Tropical Forest Restoration Strategies in Costa Rica (2011, background): “The dominant litter can potentially affect nutrient cycling through its effects on soil conditions, litter accumulation rates, and decomposition processes, all of which can influence the recruitment of native species (Carson & Peterson 1990, Molofsky & Augspurger 1992, Mesquita et al. 2001).”