TY - JOUR
T1 - Multidimensional tropical forest recovery
AU - Poorter, Lourens
AU - Craven, Dylan
AU - Jakovac, Catarina C.
AU - van der Sande, Masha T.
AU - Amissah, Lucy
AU - Bongers, Frans
AU - Chazdon, Robin L.
AU - Farrior, Caroline E.
AU - Kambach, Stephan
AU - Meave, Jorge A.
AU - Muñoz, Rodrigo
AU - Norden, Natalia
AU - Rüger, Nadja
AU - van Breugel, Michiel
AU - Zambrano, Angélica María Almeyda
AU - Amani, Bienvenu
AU - Andrade, José Luis
AU - Brancalion, Pedro H.S.
AU - Broadbent, Eben N.
AU - de Foresta, Hubert
AU - Dent, Daisy H.
AU - Derroire, Géraldine
AU - DeWalt, Saara J.
AU - Dupuy, Juan M.
AU - Durán, Sandra M.
AU - Fantini, Alfredo C.
AU - Finegan, Bryan
AU - Hernández-Jaramillo, Alma
AU - Hernández-Stefanoni, José Luis
AU - Hietz, Peter
AU - Junqueira, André B.
AU - N’dja, Justin Kassi
AU - Letcher, Susan G.
AU - Lohbeck, Madelon
AU - López-Camacho, René
AU - Martínez-Ramos, Miguel
AU - Melo, Felipe P.L.
AU - Mora, Francisco
AU - Müller, Sandra C.
AU - N’Guessan, Anny E.
AU - Oberleitner, Florian
AU - Ortiz-Malavassi, Edgar
AU - Pérez-García, Eduardo A.
AU - Pinho, Bruno X.
AU - Piotto, Daniel
AU - Powers, Jennifer S.
AU - Rodríguez-Buriticá, Susana
AU - Rozendaal, Danaë M.A.
AU - Ruíz, Jorge
AU - Tabarelli, Marcelo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/12/10
Y1 - 2021/12/10
N2 - Tropical forests disappear rapidly because of deforestation, yet they have the potential to regrow naturally on abandoned lands. We analyze how 12 forest attributes recover during secondary succession and how their recovery is interrelated using 77 sites across the tropics. Tropical forests are highly resilient to low-intensity land use; after 20 years, forest attributes attain 78% (33 to 100%) of their old-growth values. Recovery to 90% of old-growth values is fastest for soil (<1 decade) and plant functioning (<2.5 decades), intermediate for structure and species diversity (2.5 to 6 decades), and slowest for biomass and species composition (>12 decades). Network analysis shows three independent clusters of attribute recovery, related to structure, species diversity, and species composition. Secondary forests should be embraced as a low-cost, natural solution for ecosystem restoration, climate change mitigation, and biodiversity conservation.
AB - Tropical forests disappear rapidly because of deforestation, yet they have the potential to regrow naturally on abandoned lands. We analyze how 12 forest attributes recover during secondary succession and how their recovery is interrelated using 77 sites across the tropics. Tropical forests are highly resilient to low-intensity land use; after 20 years, forest attributes attain 78% (33 to 100%) of their old-growth values. Recovery to 90% of old-growth values is fastest for soil (<1 decade) and plant functioning (<2.5 decades), intermediate for structure and species diversity (2.5 to 6 decades), and slowest for biomass and species composition (>12 decades). Network analysis shows three independent clusters of attribute recovery, related to structure, species diversity, and species composition. Secondary forests should be embraced as a low-cost, natural solution for ecosystem restoration, climate change mitigation, and biodiversity conservation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85121298756&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1126/science.abh3629
DO - 10.1126/science.abh3629
M3 - Article
C2 - 34882461
AN - SCOPUS:85121298756
VL - 374
SP - 1370
EP - 1376
IS - 6573
ER -
