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* Effects of Human Activities on Successional Pathways

A Policy-Driven Knowledge Agenda for Global Forest and Landscape Restoration

A bounded null model explains juvenile tree community structure along light availability gradients in a temperate rain forest

scientific article published in 2006

A landscape approach for cost-effective large-scale forest restoration

scientific article published in 2018

A new approach to map landscape variation in forest restoration success in tropical and temperate forest biomes

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

A new statistical approach for assessing similarity of species composition with incidence and abundance data

article

A novel statistical method for classifying habitat generalists and specialists

scientific article published in June 2011

A trait-mediated, neighbourhood approach to quantify climate impacts on successional dynamics of tropical rainforests

article

A two-stage probabilistic approach to multiple-community similarity indices

scientific article

Above-ground biomass recovery following logging and thinning over 46 years in an Australian tropical forest

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Abundance-based similarity indices and their estimation when there are unseen species in samples

scientific article published in June 2006

Achieving Quality Forest and Landscape Restoration in the Tropics

scientific article published on 28 July 2020

Achieving cost‐effective landscape‐scale forest restoration through targeted natural regeneration

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus

scientific article

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

scientific article published on June 2015

Assessing Recovery Following Selective Logging of Lowland Tropical Forests Based on Hyperspectral Imagery

article

Author Correction: Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

correction of a scholarly article

Author Correction: Strategic approaches to restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

Beyond Reserves: A Research Agenda for Conserving Biodiversity in Human-modified Tropical Landscapes

Beyond hectares: four principles to guide reforestation in the context of tropical forest and landscape restoration

scientific article published in 2017

Biodiversity and human well-being: an essential link for sustainable development

scientific article

Biodiversity conservation in human-modified landscapes of Mesoamerica: Past, present and future

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

Biomasa sobre el suelo y carbono orgánico en el suelo en cuatro estadios de sucesión de bosques en la Península de Osa, Costa Rica

scholarly article published 9 September 2012

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

COMMUNITY AND PHYLOGENETIC STRUCTURE OF REPRODUCTIVE TRAITS OF WOODY SPECIES IN WET TROPICAL FORESTS

scientific article published in 2003

Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

scientific article

Chronosequence predictions are robust in a Neotropical secondary forest, but plots miss the mark.

scientific article published on 28 December 2017

Co-Creating Conceptual and Working Frameworks for Implementing Forest and Landscape Restoration Based on Core Principles

scientific article published on 24 June 2020

Composition and Dynamics of Functional Groups of Trees During Tropical Forest Succession in Northeastern Costa Rica

article

Conceptualising the Global Forest Response to Liana Proliferation

scientific article published on 24 April 2020

Contrasting community compensatory trends in alternative successional pathways in central Amazonia

scientific article published in 2010

Correlates of extinction proneness in tropical angiosperms

article

Corrigendum to “The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession”

scientific article published in 2014

Deciphering the enigma of undetected species, phylogenetic, and functional diversity based on Good-Turing theory.

scientific article

Decomposing biodiversity data using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model, a probabilistic multivariate statistical method

scientific article

Demographic Drivers of Aboveground Biomass Dynamics During Secondary Succession in Neotropical Dry and Wet Forests

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Demographic drivers of successional changes in phylogenetic structure across life-history stages in plant communities

article

Demographic drivers of tree biomass change during secondary succession in northeastern Costa Rica

scientific article published on March 2015

Detecting landscape-level changes in tree biomass and biodiversity: methodological constraints and challenges of plot-based approaches

Determinants of photosynthetic capacity in six rainforest Piper species.

scientific article

Diversidad y estructura horizontal en los bosques tropicales del Corredor Biológico de Osa, Costa Rica

scholarly article published 21 November 2012

Drivers of soil microbial community assembly during recovery from selective logging and clear‐cutting

scientific article published in 2021

EFFECTS OF CLIMATE AND STAND AGE ON ANNUAL TREE DYNAMICS IN TROPICAL SECOND-GROWTH RAIN FORESTS

article by Robin L. Chazdon et al published July 2005 in Ecology

Early ecological outcomes of natural regeneration and tree plantations for restoring agricultural landscapes.

scientific article

Ecological Aspects of the Distribution of C 4 Grasses in Selected Habitats of Costa Rica

scholarly article by Robin L. Chazdon published December 1978 in Biotropica

Ecological outcomes of agroforests and restoration 15 years after planting

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Ecological restoration increases conservation of taxonomic and functional beta diversity of woody plants in a tropical fragmented landscape

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

Ecological restoration success is higher for natural regeneration than for active restoration in tropical forests

scientific article

Ecological, behavioural and nutritional factors influencing use of palms as host plants by a Neotropical forest grasshopper

article

Effects of Leaf and Ramet Removal on Growth and Reproduction of Geonoma Congesta, A Clonal Understorey Palm

scientific article published in 1991

Effects of canopy species dominance on understorey light availability in low-elevation secondary forest stands in Costa Rica

scholarly article by Randy P. Kabakoff & Robin L. Chazdon published November 1996 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Effects of vegetation cover on seedling and sapling dynamics in secondary tropical wet forests in Costa Rica

article

Environmental filtering, local site factors and landscape context drive changes in functional trait composition during tropical forest succession

scientific article published on 30 November 2016

Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: a test case with 14 Neotropical forest sites

article

Estimation of tropical forest structural characteristics using large-footprint lidar

scientific article published in 2002

Estructura, composición y diversidad vegetal en bosques tropicales del Corredor Biológico Osa, Costa Rica

scholarly article published 22 April 2013

Ethnobotany of Woody Species in Second-Growth, Old-Growth, and Selectively Logged Forests of Northeastern Costa Rica

scholarly article by Robin L. Chazdon & Felix G. Coe published December 1999 in Conservation Biology

Exotic eucalypts: From demonized trees to allies of tropical forest restoration?

scientific article

Feedback loops drive ecological succession: towards a unified conceptual framework

scientific article published on 16 January 2024

Fifteen essential science advances needed for effective restoration of the world's forest landscapes

Forest Structure, Canopy Architecture, and Light Transmittance in Tropical Wet Forests

scientific article published in 2001

Forest and Landscape Restoration: A Review Emphasizing Principles, Concepts, and Practices

scientific article published on 31 December 2020

Forest and landscape restoration monitoring frameworks: how principled are they?

scientific article published on 04 October 2021

Forest and landscape restoration: Toward a shared vision and vocabulary

scientific article

Forests: when natural regeneration is unrealistic

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

From Management to Stewardship: Viewing Forests As Complex Adaptive Systems in an Uncertain World

Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests

scientific article

Genera palmarum: A Classification of Palms Based on the Work of Harold E. Moore, Jr.

scientific article (publication date: November 1988)

Genetic consequences of tropical second-growth forest regeneration.

scientific article

Global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions

scientific article published on 30 October 2024

Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Higher survival drives the success of nitrogen-fixing trees through succession in Costa Rican rainforests

scientific article

Historical Patterns of Natural Forest Management in Costa Rica: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

scholarly article by J. Arroyo-Mora et al published 23 July 2014 in Forests

Impact of spatial variability of tropical forest structure on radar estimation of aboveground biomass

scientific article published in 2011

Inconvenient realities and the path toward science-based forest restoration policies: A reply to Veldman et al.

scientific article

Incorporating natural regeneration in forest landscape restoration in tropical regions: synthesis and key research gaps

scientific article published on 21 November 2016

Inner-crown Microenvironments of Two Emergent Tree Species in a Lowland Wet Forest1

Integrating agricultural landscapes with biodiversity conservation in the Mesoamerican hotspot

scientific article

Interacting effects of canopy gap, understory vegetation and leaf litter on tree seedling recruitment and composition in tropical secondary forests

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Interactions between Crown Structure and Light Environment in Five Rain Forest Piper Species

scientific article published in 1988

Interspecific and intraspecific variation in tree seedling survival: effects of allocation to roots versus carbohydrate reserves

scientific article published on 01 October 1999

It is not just about time: Agricultural practices and surrounding forest cover affect secondary forest recovery in agricultural landscapes

scientific article published on 20 January 2021

Juvenile tree growth in relation to light availability in second-growth tropical rain forests

scholarly article by Mary Beth Palomaki et al published 1 February 2006 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Key challenges for governing forest and landscape restoration across different contexts

scientific article published on 02 July 2020

Landscape-Scale Controls on Aboveground Forest Carbon Stocks on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

scientific article

Leaf Display, Canopy Structure, and Light Interception of Two Understory Palm Species

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Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

Lianas and self-supporting plants during tropical forest succession

article

Life History Traits of Lianas During Tropical Forest Succession

Light Variation and Carbon Gain in Rain Forest Understorey Palms

scientific article published in 1986

Light gradient partitioning by tropical tree seedlings in the absence of canopy gaps

scientific article

Light-dependent seedling survival and growth of four tree species in Costa Rican second-growth rain forests

scientific article published in 2005

Litter dynamics recover faster than arthropod biodiversity during tropical forest succession

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Long-Term Effects of Forest Regrowth and Selective Logging on the Seed Bank of Tropical Forests in NE Costa Rica1

article published in 1998

Look down-there is a gap-the need to include soil data in Atlantic Forest restoration

article published in 2018

Making Tropical Succession and Landscape Reforestation Successful

Manila Declaration on Forest and Landscape Restoration: Making It Happen

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Mapping Species Composition of Forests and Tree Plantations in Northeastern Costa Rica with an Integration of Hyperspectral and Multitemporal Landsat Imagery

article

Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Maximizing biodiversity conservation and carbon stocking in restored tropical forests

Monitoring the structure of forest restoration plantations with a drone-lidar system

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

scientific article

Multigenerational genetic analysis of tropical secondary regeneration in a canopy palm

scientific article

Multiple successional pathways in human-modified tropical landscapes: new insights from forest succession, forest fragmentation and landscape ecology research.

scientific article published on 5 November 2015

Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions

scientific article published on 23 August 2023

Natural regeneration as a tool for large‐scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges

scientific article published on 21 November 2016

Natural regeneration in the context of large‐scale forest and landscape restoration in the tropics

scientific article published on 21 November 2016

Nitrogen-fixing trees inhibit growth of regenerating Costa Rican rainforests

scientific article

Opposing mechanisms affect taxonomic convergence between tree assemblages during tropical forest succession.

scientific article

Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees

scientific article published in 2018

Patterns of Growth and Reproduction of Geonoma congesta, a Clustered Understory Palm

Patterns of genotypic variation and phenotypic plasticity of light response in two tropical Piper (Piperaceae) species

scientific article

People, primates and predators in the Pontal: from endangered species conservation to forest and landscape restoration in Brazil's Atlantic Forest

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation favor range expansion of a Neotropical palm

scientific article published on 03 July 2018

Photographic estimation of photosynthetically active radiation: evaluation of a computerized technique.

scientific article

Photosynthetic Light Environments in a Lowland Tropical Rain Forest in Costa Rica

scholarly article by Robin L. Chazdon & Ned Fetcher published July 1984 in Journal of Ecology

Photosynthetic Responses of Tropical Forest Plants to Contrasting Light Environments

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Photosynthetic Utilization of Lightflecks by Tropical Forest Plants

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Photosynthetic Utilization of Sunflecks: A Temporally Patchy Resource on a Time Scale of Seconds to Minutes

Photosynthetic plasticity of two rain forest shrubs across natural gap transects

scientific article published on December 1992

Photosynthetic responses to light variation in rainforest species : I. Induction under constant and fluctuating light conditions.

scientific article published in July 1986

Photosynthetic responses to light variation in rainforest species : II. Carbon gain and photosynthetic efficiency during lightflecks

scientific article published in July 1986

Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Phylogenetic community structure during succession: Evidence from three Neotropical forest sites

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Plant Size and Form in the Understory Palm Genus Geonoma: Are Species Variations on a Theme?

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Plant β-diversity in fragmented rain forests: testing floristic homogenization and differentiation hypotheses

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Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world

scientific article

Protecting intact forests requires holistic approaches

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Proximity is not a proxy for parentage in an animal-dispersed Neotropical canopy palm

scientific article published in 2009

Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: challenges and opportunities

scientific article (publication date: 7 January 2013)

Radial changes in wood specific gravity of tropical trees: inter- and intraspecific variation during secondary succession

scientific article published in 2014

Rain forest nutrient cycling and productivity in response to large-scale litter manipulation

scientific article

Rapid Recovery of Biomass, Species Richness, and Species Composition in a Forest Chronosequence in Northeastern Costa Rica

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Rapid assessment of understory light availability in a wet tropical forest

scholarly article by Robert S Capers & Robin L. Chazdon published June 2004 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Rates of change in tree communities of secondary Neotropical forests following major disturbances

scientific article published on February 2007

Remnant trees affect species composition but not structure of tropical second-growth forest

scientific article published on 13 January 2014

Reply to: The risks of overstating the climate benefits of ecosystem restoration

scientific article published in 2022

Resilience and Alternative Stable States of Tropical Forest Landscapes under Shifting Cultivation Regimes.

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Resilience of tropical rain forests: tree community reassembly in secondary forests

scientific article

Restoring forests as a means to many ends

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest Biodiversity and Conservation Value in Agricultural Landscapes of Mesoamerica

Second Growth

scholarly article published 2014

Seed‐rain–successional feedbacks in wet tropical forests

scientific article published on 09 April 2021

Sexes show contrasting patterns of leaf and crown carbon gain in a dioecious rainforest shrub

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

Small Tent-Roosting Bats Promote Dispersal of Large-Seeded Plants in a Neotropical Forest

article

Soil nitrogen concentration mediates the relationship between leguminous trees and neighbor diversity in tropical forests

scientific article published on 19 June 2020

Spatial Heterogeneity of Light and Woody Seedling Regeneration in Tropical Wet Forests

scientific article published in 1999

Spatial heterogeneity in tropical forest structure: canopy palms as landscape mosaics.

scientific article

Spatially robust estimates of biological nitrogen (N) fixation imply substantial human alteration of the tropical N cycle

scientific article

Species Richness, Spatial Variation, and Abundance of the Soil Seed Bank of a Secondary Tropical Rain Forest1

Strategic approaches to restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs

scientific article published on 17 December 2018

Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests

scientific article published in July 2022

Successional dynamics in Neotropical forests are as uncertain as they are predictable

scientific article published on 15 June 2015

Successional dynamics of nitrogen fixation and forest growth in regenerating Costa Rican rainforests

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Successional shifts in tree demographic strategies in wet and dry Neotropical forests

scientific article published on 26 March 2023

Successional trajectories of seed dispersal mode and seed size of canopy tree species in wet tropical forests

scientific article published in 2022

Successional variation in carbon content and wood specific gravity of four tropical tree species

Sunflecks and Their Importance to Forest Understorey Plants

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Targeted reforestation could reverse declines in connectivity for understory birds in a tropical habitat corridor

scientific article

The Costs of Leaf Support in Understory Palms: Economy Versus Safety

scientific article published in 1986

The Importance of Sunflecks for Forest Understory Plants

article

The Palms of the Amazon. Andrew Henderson ⬇️

scientific article published in March 1996

The intervention continuum in restoration ecology: rethinking the active–passive dichotomy

scientific article published on 21 August 2021

The potential for species conservation in tropical secondary forests

scientific article

The potential of secondary forests

scientific article

The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession

scientific article

The road to recovery: a synthesis of outcomes from ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asian forests

scientific article published on 14 November 2022

Throughfall heterogeneity in tropical forested landscapes as a focal mechanism for deep percolation

Towards more effective integration of tropical forest restoration and conservation

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly

scientific article published on 5 November 2010

Trait-mediated assembly processes predict successional changes in community diversity of tropical forests

scientific article

Tree growth and death in a tropical gallery forest in Brazil: understanding the relationships among size, growth, and survivorship for understory and canopy dominant species

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Tropical Forest Plant Ecophysiology

scientific article published in 1997

Tropical Forest Regeneration

Tropical forest recovery: legacies of human impact and natural disturbances

scientific article published in 2003

Unveiling the species-rank abundance distribution by generalizing the Good-Turing sample coverage theory

scientific article published on May 2015

Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes

scientific article published on 13 October 2021

Using Lidar and Radar measurements to constrain predictions of forest ecosystem structure and function

scientific article published in June 2011

Using leading and lagging indicators for forest restoration

scientific article published on 03 June 2021

Variations of leaf eco-physiological traits in relation to environmental factors during forest succession

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

Vegetation Structure, Composition, and Species Richness Across a 56-year Chronosequence of Dry Tropical Forest on Providencia Island, Colombia1

article

Viewing forests through the lens of complex systems science

article by Elise Filotas et al published January 2014 in Ecosphere

Vulnerability and resilience of tropical forest species to land-use change.

scientific article

Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

scientific article published on 22 April 2019

When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration.

scientific article

Whither the forest transition? Climate change, policy responses, and redistributed forests in the twenty-first century

scientific article published on 21 January 2019

solarcalc 7.0: An enhanced version of a program for the analysis of hemispherical canopy photographs

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