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Lourens Poorter1, Dylan Craven2, Catarina C Jakovac1,3, Masha T van der Sande1, Lucy Amissah4, Frans Bongers1, Robin L Chazdon5,6, Caroline E Farrior7, Stephan Kambach8, Jorge A Meave9, Rodrigo Muñoz1,9, Natalia Norden10, Nadja Rüger8,11,12, Michiel van Breugel13,14,15, Angélica María Almeyda Zambrano16, Bienvenu Amani17, José Luis Andrade18, Pedro H S Brancalion19, Eben N Broadbent20, Hubert de Foresta21, Daisy H Dent12,22, Géraldine Derroire23, Saara J DeWalt24, Juan M Dupuy18, Sandra M Durán25,26, Alfredo C Fantini27, Bryan Finegan28, Alma Hernández-Jaramillo29, José Luis Hernández-Stefanoni18, Peter Hietz30, André B Junqueira31, Justin Kassi N'dja32, Susan G Letcher33, Madelon Lohbeck1,34, René López-Camacho35, Miguel Martínez-Ramos36, Felipe P L Melo37, Francisco Mora36, Sandra C Müller38, Anny E N'Guessan32, Florian Oberleitner39, Edgar Ortiz-Malavassi40, Eduardo A Pérez-García9, Bruno X Pinho37, Daniel Piotto41, Jennifer S Powers42,43, Susana Rodríguez-Buriticá10, Danaë M A Rozendaal44,45, Jorge Ruíz46, Marcelo Tabarelli37, Heitor Mancini Teixeira44,47,48, Everardo Valadares de Sá Barretto Sampaio49, Hans van der Wal50, Pedro M Villa51,52, Geraldo W Fernandes53, Braulio A Santos54, José Aguilar-Cano10, Jarcilene S de Almeida-Cortez55, Esteban Alvarez-Davila56, Felipe Arreola-Villa36, Patricia Balvanera36, Justin M Becknell57, George A L Cabral37, Carolina Castellanos-Castro10, Ben H J de Jong58, Jhon Edison Nieto10, Mário M Espírito-Santo59, Maria C Fandino60, Hernando García10, Daniel García-Villalobos10, Jefferson S Hall13, Alvaro Idárraga61, Jaider Jiménez-Montoya62, Deborah Kennard63, Erika Marín-Spiotta64, Rita Mesquita65, Yule R F Nunes59, Susana Ochoa-Gaona58, Marielos Peña-Claros1, Nathalia Pérez-Cárdenas36, Jorge Rodríguez-Velázquez36, Lucía Sanaphre Villanueva18,66, Naomi B Schwartz67, Marc K Steininger68, Maria D M Veloso59, Henricus F M Vester69, Ima C G Vieira70, G Bruce Williamson65,71, Kátia Zanini38, Bruno Hérault72,73,74.
Abstract
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.Entities:
Year: 2021 PMID： 34882461 DOI： 10.1126/science.abh3629
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728