Cattle and Weedy Shrubs as Restoration Tools of Tropical Montane Rainforest

By J. Posada, T. Mitchell Aide, J. Cavelier. 2000

114 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Forest Regeneration from Pasture in the Dry Tropics of Panama: Effects of Cattle, Exotic Grass, and Forested Riparia (2009, background): “Cattle increased light during the wet season, by foraging on grass species and many nongrass species, as was found by other studies (Rummell 1951; Janzen 1988; Karl & Doescher 1993; Belsky & Blumenthal 1997; Posada et al. 2000).”
Effects of light, alien grass, and native species additions on hawaiian dry forest restoration (2002, background): “…in grass-invaded tropical ecosystems (e.g., Vieira-Guimãres et al. 1994, Aide et al. 1995, D’Antonio et al. 1998, Holl 1999, Holl et al. 2000, Posada et al. 2000) suggest that remnant or reintroduced trees and shrubs may serve as important foci for the establishment of species that are…”
Principles of Natural Regeneration of Tropical Dry Forests for Restoration (2006, background): “This high capacity of colonization has contributed to an over-representation of wind-dispersed species in some tropical pastures (Posada et al. 2000) and in some tropical and subtropical secondary forests (Finegan & Delgado 2000; Marcano-Vega et al. 2002).”
A place for alien species in ecosystem restoration (2004, background): “In Colombia, for example, light grazing by cattle led to increased shrub dominance, which in turn created a suitable habitat for establishment of native tree species (Posada et al. 2000).”