Tropical forest recovery: legacies of human impact and natural disturbances

By R. Chazdon. 2003

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

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Predicting tropical insect herbivore abundance from host plant traits and phylogeny (2012, result): “Disturbance leads to welldocumented changes in the structural and functional diversity of plant communities (Guariguata et al. 1997, Chazdon 2003, Poorter et al. 2004, Santos et al. 2010), and we observed generally similar trends in New Guinea.”
Active or Passive Forest Restoration? Assessing Restoration Alternatives with Avian Foraging Behavior (2011, background): “…the recovery of passive restoration sites will depend strongly on land-use history, time since abandonment, and, potentially, landscape factors (Chazdon 2003), lands that have been used intensively are severely degraded and that are far from seed sources may not recover naturally and could…”
Demographic drivers of successional changes in phylogenetic structure across life-history stages in plant communities (2012, background): “In contrast, rates of recruitment and mortality stay elevated, maintaining high individual turnover (Chazdon 2003).”
Mineral stress: the missing link in understanding how global climate change will affect plants in real world soils (2004, background): “Soil erosion is a massive problem in the humid tropics, deforestation has degraded the fertility of many tropical forest soils (Chazdon, 2003), acid precipitation has accelerated base leaching and forest decline in Northern Europe and the Eastern US (Tomlinson, 2003), crop irrigation without adequat”
Tropical tree community shifts: Implications for wildlife conservation (2010, background): “This would represent part of forest dynamics in forests of this nature (Chazdon, 2003).”
Paradox, presumption and pitfalls in conservation biology: The importance of habitat change for amphibians and reptiles. (2007, background): “Marked differences in local habitat conditions and disturbance history confound comparisons among sites (Chazdon, 2003), although studies encompassing different age-classes of secondary forest indicate that amphibian and reptile species richness generally increases with stand age in both tropical…”
Changes in tree and liana communities along a successional gradient in a tropical dry forest in south-eastern Brazil (2009, background): “However, it is well documented that previous land use history affects the speed and pathway of forest succession in a given area after agricultural land abandonment (Guariguata and Ostertag 2001; Kennard 2002; Chazdon 2003; Vieira et al. 2006; Sampaio et al. 2007).”
Global change effects on humid tropical forests: Evidence for biogeochemical and biodiversity shifts at an ecosystem scale (2016, background): “While there is great potential for forest recovery on abandoned lands in humid tropical forests, secondary forests on abandoned lands often have decreased biodiversity or altered species composition relative to mature tropical forests, particularly during early stages of succession [Chazdon, 2003].”
Contrasting above‐ground biomass balance in a Neotropical rain forest (2010, background): “forest fires or hurricanes, able to reset forest stand structure entirely (Nelson et al. 1994; Zimmerman et al. 1996; Vandermeer et al. 2000; Chazdon 2003; Uriarte et al. 2009) and small-scale disturbances, i.”
Secondary forests on anthropogenic soils in Brazilian Amazonia conserve agrobiodiversity (2010, background): “The floristic composition of anthropogenic soils should be strongly influenced by longterm human activity in these environments, since the floristic composition of secondary forests may be influenced by the intensity, duration and type of land-use before ‘‘abandonment’’ (see reviews by Guariguata an”
Time-lag in biological responses to landscape changes in a highly dynamic Atlantic forest region (2009, positive): “Conservation actions are also urgent when the regrowth process is slow, as in areas without a nearby stable source of species, spores or seeds (Chazdon, 2003; Dunn, 2004).”
The Potential for Species Conservation in Tropical Secondary Forests (2009, background): “Successional trajectories may fail to converge on oldgrowth composition for a variety of reasons (Ewel 1980; Chazdon 2003).”
Species Richness, Forest Structure, and Functional Diversity During Succession in the New Guinea Lowlands (2014, background): “These areas are important reservoirs of biodiversity in increasingly fragmented landscapes (Chazdon 2003), and significant sources of timber and non-timber products (Chazdon & Coe 1999, Ticktin 2004).”