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List of works by Rakan A. Zahawi

A degradation debt? Large-scale shifts in community composition and loss of biomass in a tropical forest fragment after 40 years of isolation

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

scientific article published on June 2015

Applied nucleation facilitates tropical forest recovery: Lessons learned from a 15‐year study

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Avian Habitat Preference in Tropical Forest Restoration in Southern Costa Rica

scientific article published on 28 September 2011

Biocultural restoration of Hawaiian tropical dry forests

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Coffee pulp accelerates early tropical forest succession on old fields

article by Rebecca J. Cole & Rakan A. Zahawi published January 2021 in Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Comparing the Performance of Tree Stakes and Seedlings to Restore Abandoned Tropical Pastures

scientific article published on 25 July 2008

Degree of intervention affects interannual and within‐plot heterogeneity of seed arrival in tropical forest restoration

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Distribution and abundance of nearctic–neotropical songbird migrants in a forest restoration site in southern Costa Rica

scientific article published on 07 November 2008

Effects of dispersal- and niche-based factors on tree recruitment in tropical wet forest restoration

scientific article published on 25 April 2020

Effects of insect herbivory on seedling mortality in restored and remnant tropical forest

article by Andy J. II Kulikowski et al published 6 July 2021 in Restoration Ecology

Ex situ conservation of threatened plant species in island biodiversity hotspots: A case study from Hawai‘i

scientific article published on 28 February 2020

Forests: questioning carbon stores after restoration

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why

scientific article published in 2015

How feasible are global forest restoration commitments?

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Landscape context mediates avian habitat choice in tropical forest restoration

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Large tree mortality leads to major aboveground biomass decline in a tropical forest reserve

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Leaf litter arthropod responses to tropical forest restoration

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Litterfall Dynamics Under Different Tropical Forest Restoration Strategies in Costa Rica

scientific article published on 27 July 2010

Litterfall and nutrient dynamics shift in tropical forest restoration sites after a decade of recovery

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Local tropical forest restoration strategies affect tree recruitment more strongly than does landscape forest cover

scientific article published on 01 November 2016

Multi‐scale habitat selection of key frugivores predicts large‐seeded tree recruitment in tropical forest restoration

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Patch Size and Tree Species Influence the Number and Duration of Bird Visits in Forest Restoration Plots in Southern Costa Rica

scientific article published on 17 April 2008

Patch size effects on avian foraging behaviour: implications for tropical forest restoration design

scientific article published on 24 November 2009

Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests.

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Planting Seedlings in Tree Islands Versus Plantations as a Large-Scale Tropical Forest Restoration Strategy

scientific article published on 07 June 2010

Positive site selection bias in meta-analyses comparing natural regeneration to active forest restoration.

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Potential impacts of COVID-19 on tropical forest recovery

scientific article published on 29 September 2020

Proximity and abundance of mother trees affects recruitment patterns in a long‐term tropical forest restoration study

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Range expansion for the Critically Endangered poison-dart frog Leucostethus bilsa Vigle et al., 2020 (Amphibia, Dendrobatidae), demonstrating the importance of small forest reserves in the Ecuadorian Chocó

scientific article published in 2024

Reduced aboveground tree growth associated with higher arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity in tropical forest restoration

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Scale-dependent effects of forest restoration on Neotropical fruit bats

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Seed dispersal limitations shift over time in tropical forest restoration

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Seed rain under tree islands planted to restore degraded lands in a tropical agricultural landscape.

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Sixty-Seven Years of Land-Use Change in Southern Costa Rica

scientific article published on 23 November 2015

Testing heterogeneity-diversity relationships in tropical forest restoration

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The Tree Biodiversity Network (BIOTREE-NET): prospects for biodiversity research and conservation in the Neotropics

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The ephemerality of secondary forests in southern Costa Rica

scientific article published on 26 September 2018

The function of stilt roots in the growth strategy of Socratea exorrhiza (Arecaceae) at two neotropical sites

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Tropical biology and conservation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Tropical forest restoration enriches vascular epiphyte recovery

scientific article published on 02 June 2016

Tropical forest restoration in Costa Rica: the effect of several strategies on litter production, accumulation and decomposition

scientific article published on September 1, 2011

Using lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor tropical forest recovery

Vegetative propagation of native tree species: an alternative restoration strategy for the tropical Andes

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