doi: 10.1126/science.abh3629.
Epub 2021 Dec 9.
Multidimensional tropical forest recovery
Lourens Poorter
1
, Dylan Craven
2
, Catarina C Jakovac
1
3
, Masha T van der Sande
1
, Lucy Amissah
4
, Frans Bongers
1
, Robin L Chazdon
5
6
, Caroline E Farrior
7
, Stephan Kambach
8
, Jorge A Meave
9
, Rodrigo Muñoz
1
9
, Natalia Norden
10
, Nadja Rüger
8
11
12
, Michiel van Breugel
13
14
15
, Angélica María Almeyda Zambrano
16
, Bienvenu Amani
17
, José Luis Andrade
18
, Pedro H S Brancalion
19
, Eben N Broadbent
20
, Hubert de Foresta
21
, Daisy H Dent
12
22
, Géraldine Derroire
23
, Saara J DeWalt
24
, Juan M Dupuy
18
, Sandra M Durán
25
26
, Alfredo C Fantini
27
, Bryan Finegan
28
, Alma Hernández-Jaramillo
29
, José Luis Hernández-Stefanoni
18
, Peter Hietz
30
, André B Junqueira
31
, Justin Kassi N'dja
32
, Susan G Letcher
33
, Madelon Lohbeck
1
34
, René López-Camacho
35
, Miguel Martínez-Ramos
36
, Felipe P L Melo
37
, Francisco Mora
36
, Sandra C Müller
38
, Anny E N'Guessan
32
, Florian Oberleitner
39
, Edgar Ortiz-Malavassi
40
, Eduardo A Pérez-García
9
, Bruno X Pinho
37
, Daniel Piotto
41
, Jennifer S Powers
42
43
, Susana Rodríguez-Buriticá
10
, Danaë M A Rozendaal
44
45
, Jorge Ruíz
46
, Marcelo Tabarelli
37
, Heitor Mancini Teixeira
44
47
48
, Everardo Valadares de Sá Barretto Sampaio
49
, Hans van der Wal
50
, Pedro M Villa
51
52
, Geraldo W Fernandes
53
, Braulio A Santos
54
, José Aguilar-Cano
10
, Jarcilene S de Almeida-Cortez
55
, Esteban Alvarez-Davila
56
, Felipe Arreola-Villa
36
, Patricia Balvanera
36
, Justin M Becknell
57
, George A L Cabral
37
, Carolina Castellanos-Castro
10
, Ben H J de Jong
58
, Jhon Edison Nieto
10
, Mário M Espírito-Santo
59
, Maria C Fandino
60
, Hernando García
10
, Daniel García-Villalobos
10
, Jefferson S Hall
13
, Alvaro Idárraga
61
, Jaider Jiménez-Montoya
62
, Deborah Kennard
63
, Erika Marín-Spiotta
64
, Rita Mesquita
65
, Yule R F Nunes
59
, Susana Ochoa-Gaona
58
, Marielos Peña-Claros
1
, Nathalia Pérez-Cárdenas
36
, Jorge Rodríguez-Velázquez
36
, Lucía Sanaphre Villanueva
18
66
, Naomi B Schwartz
67
, Marc K Steininger
68
, Maria D M Veloso
59
, Henricus F M Vester
69
, Ima C G Vieira
70
, G Bruce Williamson
65
71
, Kátia Zanini
38
, Bruno Hérault
72
73
74
Affiliations
Affiliations
- 1 Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands.
- 2 Centro de Modelación y Monitoreo de Ecosistemas, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.
- 3 Departamento de Fitotecnia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Rod. Admar Gonzaga, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
- 4 CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana.
- 5 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
- 6 Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, QLD, Australia.
- 7 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
- 8 German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
- 9 Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 10 Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 11 Department of Economics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
- 12 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancón, Balboa, Panama.
- 13 SI ForestGEO, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancón, Balboa, Panama.
- 14 Yale-NUS College, Singapore, Singapore.
- 15 Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
- 16 Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
- 17 UFR Agroforesterie, Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé Daloa, Daloa, Côte d'Ivoire.
- 18 Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán A.C. Unidad de Recursos Naturales, Colonia Chuburná de Hidalgo, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
- 19 Department of Forest Sciences, "Luiz de Queiroz" College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 20 Spatial Ecology and Conservation Lab, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
- 21 UMR AMAP, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France.
- 22 Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
- 23 CIRAD, UMR EcoFoG (AgroParistech, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de la Guyane), Campus Agronomique, Kourou, French Guiana.
- 24 Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA.
- 25 Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
- 26 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
- 27 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.
- 28 CATIE-Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba, Costa Rica.
- 29 Neotropical Primate Conservation Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 30 Institute of Botany, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
- 31 Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
- 32 Departement of Bioscience, University Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
- 33 College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME, USA.
- 34 World Agroforestry Centre, ICRAF, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya.
- 35 Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Facultad de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 36 Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico.
- 37 Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
- 38 Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
- 39 Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
- 40 Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal, Cartago, Costa Rica.
- 41 Centro de Formação em Ciências Agroflorestais, Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia, Itabuna, BA, Brazil.
- 42 Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
- 43 Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
- 44 Plant Production Systems Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands.
- 45 Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands.
- 46 Programa de Estudios de Posgrado en Geografia, Convenio Universidad Pedagogica y Tecnológica de Colombia-Instituto Geografico Agustin Codazzi, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 47 Farming Systems Ecology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands.
- 48 Copernicus Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
- 49 Departamento de Energia Nuclear-CTG, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
- 50 Departamento de Agricultura, Sociedad y Ambiente, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur - Unidad Villahermosa, Centro, Tabasco, México.
- 51 Program of Botany, Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Laboratório de Ecologia e Evolução de Plantas, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- 52 Fundación para la Conservación de la Biodiversidad (PROBIODIVERSA), Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela.
- 53 Ecologia Evolutiva e Biodiversidade/DBG, ICB, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
- 54 Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil.
- 55 Departamento de Botânica-CCB, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Brazil.
- 56 Escuela ECAPMA - Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 57 Environmental Studies Program, Colby College, Waterville, ME, USA.
- 58 Department of Sustainability Science, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Lerma, Campeche, Mexico.
- 59 Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- 60 Fondo Patrimonio Natural para la Biodiversidad y Areas Protegidas, Bogota, Colombia.
- 61 Fundación Jardín Botánico de Medellín, Herbario JAUM, Medellín, Colombia.
- 62 Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, Antioquia, Colombia.
- 63 Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO, USA.
- 64 Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
- 65 Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Environmental Dynamics Research Coordination, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
- 66 Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Centro del Cambio Global y la Sustentabilidad, Tabasco, Mexico.
- 67 Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- 68 Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
- 69 Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 70 Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
- 71 Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
- 72 CIRAD, UPR Forêts et Sociétés, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire.
- 73 Forêts et Sociétés, Université Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, France.
- 74 Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny, INP-HB, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire.
- PMID: 34882461
- DOI: 10.1126/science.abh3629
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Epub 2021 Dec 9.
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Lourens Poorter
1
, Dylan Craven
2
, Catarina C Jakovac
1
3
, Masha T van der Sande
1
, Lucy Amissah
4
, Frans Bongers
1
, Robin L Chazdon
5
6
, Caroline E Farrior
7
, Stephan Kambach
8
, Jorge A Meave
9
, Rodrigo Muñoz
1
9
, Natalia Norden
10
, Nadja Rüger
8
11
12
, Michiel van Breugel
13
14
15
, Angélica María Almeyda Zambrano
16
, Bienvenu Amani
17
, José Luis Andrade
18
, Pedro H S Brancalion
19
, Eben N Broadbent
20
, Hubert de Foresta
21
, Daisy H Dent
12
22
, Géraldine Derroire
23
, Saara J DeWalt
24
, Juan M Dupuy
18
, Sandra M Durán
25
26
, Alfredo C Fantini
27
, Bryan Finegan
28
, Alma Hernández-Jaramillo
29
, José Luis Hernández-Stefanoni
18
, Peter Hietz
30
, André B Junqueira
31
, Justin Kassi N'dja
32
, Susan G Letcher
33
, Madelon Lohbeck
1
34
, René López-Camacho
35
, Miguel Martínez-Ramos
36
, Felipe P L Melo
37
, Francisco Mora
36
, Sandra C Müller
38
, Anny E N'Guessan
32
, Florian Oberleitner
39
, Edgar Ortiz-Malavassi
40
, Eduardo A Pérez-García
9
, Bruno X Pinho
37
, Daniel Piotto
41
, Jennifer S Powers
42
43
, Susana Rodríguez-Buriticá
10
, Danaë M A Rozendaal
44
45
, Jorge Ruíz
46
, Marcelo Tabarelli
37
, Heitor Mancini Teixeira
44
47
48
, Everardo Valadares de Sá Barretto Sampaio
49
, Hans van der Wal
50
, Pedro M Villa
51
52
, Geraldo W Fernandes
53
, Braulio A Santos
54
, José Aguilar-Cano
10
, Jarcilene S de Almeida-Cortez
55
, Esteban Alvarez-Davila
56
, Felipe Arreola-Villa
36
, Patricia Balvanera
36
, Justin M Becknell
57
, George A L Cabral
37
, Carolina Castellanos-Castro
10
, Ben H J de Jong
58
, Jhon Edison Nieto
10
, Mário M Espírito-Santo
59
, Maria C Fandino
60
, Hernando García
10
, Daniel García-Villalobos
10
, Jefferson S Hall
13
, Alvaro Idárraga
61
, Jaider Jiménez-Montoya
62
, Deborah Kennard
63
, Erika Marín-Spiotta
64
, Rita Mesquita
65
, Yule R F Nunes
59
, Susana Ochoa-Gaona
58
, Marielos Peña-Claros
1
, Nathalia Pérez-Cárdenas
36
, Jorge Rodríguez-Velázquez
36
, Lucía Sanaphre Villanueva
18
66
, Naomi B Schwartz
67
, Marc K Steininger
68
, Maria D M Veloso
59
, Henricus F M Vester
69
, Ima C G Vieira
70
, G Bruce Williamson
65
71
, Kátia Zanini
38
, Bruno Hérault
72
73
74
Affiliations
- 1 Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands.
- 2 Centro de Modelación y Monitoreo de Ecosistemas, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.
- 3 Departamento de Fitotecnia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Rod. Admar Gonzaga, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
- 4 CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana.
- 5 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
- 6 Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, QLD, Australia.
- 7 University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
- 8 German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
- 9 Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 10 Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 11 Department of Economics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
- 12 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancón, Balboa, Panama.
- 13 SI ForestGEO, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancón, Balboa, Panama.
- 14 Yale-NUS College, Singapore, Singapore.
- 15 Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
- 16 Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
- 17 UFR Agroforesterie, Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé Daloa, Daloa, Côte d'Ivoire.
- 18 Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán A.C. Unidad de Recursos Naturales, Colonia Chuburná de Hidalgo, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
- 19 Department of Forest Sciences, "Luiz de Queiroz" College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 20 Spatial Ecology and Conservation Lab, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
- 21 UMR AMAP, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France.
- 22 Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
- 23 CIRAD, UMR EcoFoG (AgroParistech, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de la Guyane), Campus Agronomique, Kourou, French Guiana.
- 24 Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA.
- 25 Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
- 26 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
- 27 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.
- 28 CATIE-Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, Turrialba, Costa Rica.
- 29 Neotropical Primate Conservation Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 30 Institute of Botany, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
- 31 Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
- 32 Departement of Bioscience, University Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
- 33 College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME, USA.
- 34 World Agroforestry Centre, ICRAF, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya.
- 35 Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Facultad de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 36 Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico.
- 37 Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
- 38 Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
- 39 Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
- 40 Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal, Cartago, Costa Rica.
- 41 Centro de Formação em Ciências Agroflorestais, Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia, Itabuna, BA, Brazil.
- 42 Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
- 43 Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
- 44 Plant Production Systems Group, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands.
- 45 Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands.
- 46 Programa de Estudios de Posgrado en Geografia, Convenio Universidad Pedagogica y Tecnológica de Colombia-Instituto Geografico Agustin Codazzi, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 47 Farming Systems Ecology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands.
- 48 Copernicus Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
- 49 Departamento de Energia Nuclear-CTG, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
- 50 Departamento de Agricultura, Sociedad y Ambiente, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur - Unidad Villahermosa, Centro, Tabasco, México.
- 51 Program of Botany, Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Laboratório de Ecologia e Evolução de Plantas, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- 52 Fundación para la Conservación de la Biodiversidad (PROBIODIVERSA), Mérida, Mérida, Venezuela.
- 53 Ecologia Evolutiva e Biodiversidade/DBG, ICB, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
- 54 Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil.
- 55 Departamento de Botânica-CCB, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Brazil.
- 56 Escuela ECAPMA - Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, Bogotá, Colombia.
- 57 Environmental Studies Program, Colby College, Waterville, ME, USA.
- 58 Department of Sustainability Science, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Lerma, Campeche, Mexico.
- 59 Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- 60 Fondo Patrimonio Natural para la Biodiversidad y Areas Protegidas, Bogota, Colombia.
- 61 Fundación Jardín Botánico de Medellín, Herbario JAUM, Medellín, Colombia.
- 62 Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, Antioquia, Colombia.
- 63 Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, CO, USA.
- 64 Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
- 65 Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Environmental Dynamics Research Coordination, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
- 66 Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Centro del Cambio Global y la Sustentabilidad, Tabasco, Mexico.
- 67 Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- 68 Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
- 69 Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 70 Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
- 71 Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
- 72 CIRAD, UPR Forêts et Sociétés, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire.
- 73 Forêts et Sociétés, Université Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, France.
- 74 Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny, INP-HB, Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire.
- PMID: 34882461
- DOI: 10.1126/science.abh3629
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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.
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