Secondary forests of central Panama increase in similarity to old-growth forest over time in shade tolerance but not species composition

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Shedding light on shade: ecological perspectives of understorey plant life (2016, background): “In moist tropical ecosystems, species coexistence and forest dynamics are to a great extent driven by functional differences in the capacity to compete for light, and several trade-offs at various ontogenetic stages have been invoked to explain niche differentiation (Kitajima and Poorter 2008; Dent ”
Species Richness, Forest Structure, and Functional Diversity During Succession in the New Guinea Lowlands (2014, background): “If these predictions are supported, we expect that species with certain combinations of traits should be associated with different successional stages (Dent et al. 2013).”
Neotropical rainforest restoration: comparing passive, plantation and nucleation approaches (2016, background): “Depending on the soil degradation and other disturbances, recovery of pre-disturbance structure and original species composition could take 100–500 years (Uhl et al. 1988; Corlett 1995; Chazdon 2003; Liebsch et al. 2008; Dent et al. 2012; Suganuma and Durigan 2015).”