The Potential for Species Conservation in Tropical Secondary Forests

By R. Chazdon, C. A. Peres, D. Dent, Douglas Sheil, A. Lugo, D. Lamb, Nigel E. Stork, S. Miller. Conservation Biology, 2009

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

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Global change effects on humid tropical forests: Evidence for biogeochemical and biodiversity shifts at an ecosystem scale (2016, background): “Secondary forest growth on can greatly restore forest ecosystem processes and biodiversity [Chazdon et al., 2009].”
Predicting tropical insect herbivore abundance from host plant traits and phylogeny (2012, background): “A better understanding of diversity in secondary forests is particularly important as these communities become a dominant feature of tropical landscapes and their role in species conservation (Chazdon et al. 2009) becomes more important.”
Primate responses to anthropogenic habitat disturbance: A pantropical meta-analysis (2017, background): “richness and composition tend to converge with those of undisturbed old-growth as forest regeneration advances into late succession (Chazdon et al., 2009; Norden et al., 2009), so community effects in older secondary forests are expected to be less severe than those in early successional forests.”
Responses of Tropical Bats to Habitat Fragmentation, Logging, and Deforestation (2015, background): “The future of tropical biodiversity will critically depend on our ability to manage the large expanses of regenerating secondary forests (Chazdon et al. 2009; Chazdon 2014) that account for approximately half of the remaining area of tropical moist forests (Asner et al.”
Demographic drivers of successional changes in phylogenetic structure across life-history stages in plant communities (2012, background): “…the growing role of these successional communities in the conservation of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, and many ecosystem services (Chazdon et al. 2009), recent theoretical developments in plant ecology have focused on species-rich, mature plant communities, rather than on less…”
Biodiversity consequences of land-use change and forest disturbance in the Amazon:a multi-scale assessment using ant communities (2016, background): “Secondary forests have high biodiversity value and can play an important role in conservation planning in human modified tropical landscapes (Barlow et al. 2007a, Chazdon et al. 2009, Arroyo-Rodríguez et al. 2015).”
The Ecological Impact of Biofuels (2010, background): “If deforested lands are not cultivated or grazed, secondary forest can, within decades, support a surprisingly large number of forest species (Chazdon et al. 2009).”
Avian biodiversity in multiple-use landscapes of the Brazilian Amazon (2013, background): “, 2006; FAO, 2012) and as such are likely to have a very important future role in safeguarding the persistence of forest species in some regions (Chazdon et al., 2009; Gardner et al., 2009).”
Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world. (2009, background): “Alongside identifying key knowledge gaps (see Chazdon et al. 2009), a new research agenda needs to be effective at incorporating new tools and approaches, both conceptual and analytical, that have the potential to bridge the divide between theory and practice and translate policies into effective…”
Secondary forests of central Panama increase in similarity to old-growth forest over time in shade tolerance but not species composition (2013, background): “Given that landscape and site history affect the accumulation of OG species in SF (Chazdon et al. 2009; Dent & Wright 2009), we must be cautious in our interpretation of chronosequence data (Johnson & Miyanishi 2008; Norden et al. 2009).”
Fostering natural forest regeneration on former agricultural land through economic and policy interventions (2020, background): “…show gradual recovery of native species compared to reference forests, but outcomes vary widely and species composition recovery is significantly slower than species richness (Chazdon et al 2009, Navarro and Pereira 2015, Acevedo-Charry and Aide 2019, Matos et al 2019, Rozendaal et al 2019).”