Biodiversity and recovery of forest in tropical landscapes

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The role of land‐use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests

Author(s): Catarina C. Jakovac, André B. Junqueira, Renato Crouzeilles, Marielos Peña‐Claros, Rita C. G. Mesquita, Frans Bongers
Published in: Biological Reviews, Issue 6, 2021, Page(s) not available yet, ISSN 1464-7931
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12694

Dissecting forest transition: Contribution of mature forests, second-growth forests and tree plantations to tree cover dynamics in the tropics

Author(s): Johan de Jong, Lourens Poorter, Wil de Jong, Frans Bongers, Madelon Lohbeck, Elmar Veenendaal, Jorge A. Meave, Catarina C. Jakovac, Pedro H.S. Brancalion, Lucy Amissah, Miguel Martínez-Ramos, Harm Bartholomeus, Susan G.W. Laurance, William Hagan Brown, Mathieu Decuyper
Published in: Land Use Policy, Issue 153, 2025, Page(s) 107545, ISSN 0264-8377
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107545

Multidimensional tropical forest recovery

Author(s): Lourens Poorter, Dylan Craven, Catarina C. Jakovac, Masha T. van der Sande, Lucy Amissah, Frans Bongers, Robin L. Chazdon, Caroline E. Farrior, Stephan Kambach, Jorge A. Meave, Rodrigo Muñoz, Natalia Norden, Nadja Rüger Michiel van Breugel Angélica María Almeyda Zambrano, Bienvenu Amani, José Luis Andrade, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Eben N. Broadbent, Hubert de Foresta, Daisy H. Dent, Géraldine
Published in: Science, 2021, Page(s) 1370-1376, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abh3629

Multidimensional Recovery of Young Secondary Forests in Human‐Modified Tropical Landscapes

Author(s): Tomonari Matsuo, Lourens Poorter, Lucy Amissah, Susan G. W. Laurance, Miguel Martínez‐Ramos, Jorge A. Meave, Frans Bongers, Masha T. van der Sande, Jazz Kok, Laura Marteijn, Luis Octavio Zavala, Iris Hordijk
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 32, 2026, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.70874

Recovery of forest and soil attributes during dry and wet secondary tropical forest succession

Author(s): Lucy Amissah, Tomonari Matsuo, Catarina C. Jakovac, Emmanuel Amponsah Manu, Jonathan Dabo, Salim Mohammed Abdul, Lourens Poorter
Published in: Forest Ecology and Management, Issue 611, 2026, Page(s) 123726, ISSN 0378-1127
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123726

Young tropical forests help to reverse biodiversity losses

Author(s): Lourens Poorter, Tomonari Matsuo
Published in: Nature, Issue 652, 2026, Page(s) 1130-1132, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/d41586-026-00811-6

Editorial: Enhancing Natural Regeneration to Restore Landscapes

Author(s): Madelon Lohbeck; Madelon Lohbeck; Débora Cristina Rother; Débora Cristina Rother; Catarina C. Jakovac
Published in: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2624-893X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2021.735457

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

Author(s): Nadja Rüger, Markus E. Schorn, Stephan Kambach, Robin L. Chazdon, Caroline E. Farrior, Jorge A. Meave, Rodrigo Muñoz, Michiel van Breugel, Lucy Amissah, Frans Bongers, Dylan Craven, Bruno Hérault, Catarina C. Jakovac, Natalia Norden, Lourens Poorter, Masha T. van der Sande, Christian Wirth, Diego Delgado, Daisy H. Dent, Saara J. DeWalt, Juan M. Dupuy, Bryan Finegan, Jefferson S. Hall, José L.
Published in: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Issue 32, 2023, Page(s) 1002-1014, ISSN 1466-822X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/geb.13669

Breaking down to build up: litter decomposition drives soil organic carbon accumulation in young secondary forests

Author(s): Lhouyangdar Khulpu, Tomonari Matsuo, Jazz Kok, Lucy Amissah, Salim Mohammed Abdul, Tijs Kuzee, Lourens Poorter
Published in: Journal of Tropical Ecology, Issue 41, 2025, ISSN 0266-4674
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0266467425100321

Ecological integrity of tropical secondary forests: concepts and indicators

Author(s): Milena F. Rosenfield, Catarina C. Jakovac, Daniel L. M. Vieira, Lourens Poorter, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Ima C. G. Vieira, Danilo R. A. de Almeida, Paulo Massoca, Juliana Schietti, Ana Luisa M. Albernaz, Marciel J. Ferreira, Rita C. G. Mesquita
Published in: Biological Reviews, Issue 12, 2023, Page(s) 662-676, ISSN 1464-7931
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12924

Light competition drives species replacement during secondary tropical forest succession

Author(s): Tomonari Matsuo, Miguel Martínez-Ramos, Yusuke Onoda, Frans Bongers, Madelon Lohbeck, Lourens Poorter
Published in: Oecologica, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 1-11, ISSN 1432-1939
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-024-05551-w

Tropical forest succession increases tree taxonomic and functional richness but decreases evenness

Author(s): Masha T. van der Sande, Lourens Poorter, Géraldine Derroire, Mario Marcos do Espirito Santo, Madelon Lohbeck, Sandra C. Müller, Radika Bhaskar, Michiel van Breugel, Juan Manuel Dupuy‐Rada, Sandra M. Durán, Catarina C. Jakovac, Horacio Paz, Danaë M. A. Rozendaal, Pedro Brancalion, Dylan Craven, Francisco Mora Ardilla, Jarcilene S. Almeida, Patricia Balvanera, Justin Becknell, Bryan Finegan,
Published in: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Issue 33, 2024, ISSN 1466-822X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/geb.13856

Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests

Author(s): Lourens Poorter, Danaë M. A. Rozendaal, Frans Bongers, de Jarcilene S. Almeida, Francisco S. Álvarez, José Luís Andrade, Luis Felipe Arreola Villa, Justin M. Becknell, Radika Bhaskar, Vanessa Boukili, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Ricardo G. César, Jerome Chave, Robin L. Chazdon, Gabriel Dalla Colletta, Dylan Craven, Ben H. J. de Jong, Julie S. Denslow, Daisy H. Dent, Saara J. DeWalt, Elisa Díaz G
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021, Page(s) e2003405118, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2003405118

A millennial-scale analysis for Amazonian and Andean sites

Author(s): Masha T. van der Sande; Mark B. Bush; Christine M. Åkesson; Juan Carlos Berrio; Alex Correia Metrio; Suzette G. A. Flantua; Henry Hooghiemstra; S. Yoshi Maezumi; Crystal N. H. McMichael; Encarni Montoya; Nicole A. S. Mosblech; Majoi de Novaes Nascimento; Marielos Peña‐Claros; Lourens Poorter; Marco F. Raczka; William D. Gosling
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 29, 2023, Page(s) 4775-5792, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16818

Land use history and landscape forest cover determine tropical forest recovery

Author(s): Iris Hordijk, Lourens Poorter, Jorge A. Meave, Frans Bongers, Masha T. van der Sande, Rey David López Mendoza, Pascual Jamangapé Romero, Johan de Jong, Miguel Martínez‐Ramos
Published in: Journal of Applied Ecology, Issue 61, 2024, Page(s) 2365-2381, ISSN 0021-8901
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14754

Feedback loops drive ecological succession: towards a unified conceptual framework

Author(s): Michiel van Breugel, Frans Bongers, Natalia Norden, Jorge A. Meave, Lucy Amissah, Wirong Chanthorn, Robin Chazdon, Dylan Craven, Caroline Farrior, Jefferson S. Hall, Bruno Hérault, Catarina Jakovac, Edwin Lebrija-Trejos, Miguel Martínez-Ramos, Rodrigo Muñoz, Lourens Poorter, Nadja Rüger, Masha van der Sande, Daisy H. Dent
Published in: Biological Reviews, Issue 99, 2024, Page(s) 928-949, ISSN 1464-7931
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1111/brv.13051

Functional Recovery of Tropical Forests: The Role of Restoration Methods and Environmental Conditions

Author(s): Rens Brouwer, Marielos Peña-Claros, Frans Bongers, Lourens Poorter, Joannès Guillemot, Danilo R.A. Almeida, Catherine Torres de Almeida, Angélica F. Resende, Laura H. P. Simões, Natália M. Ivanauskas, Renato A. Ferreira de Lima, Vinicius Castro Souza, Cássio Augusto Patrocínio Toledo, Miguel Cooper, José Guedes, Mathieu Decuyper, Paulo G. Molin, Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues, Pedro H. S. B
Published in: Biological Conservation, 2024, ISSN 0006-3207
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4876385

Determinants of above-ground carbon stocks and productivity in secondary forests along a 3000-m elevation gradient in the Ecuadorian Andes

Author(s): Esteban Pinto, Francisco Cuesta, Antonella Bernardi, Mellisa Llerena-Zambrano, Álvaro J. Pérez, Masha T. van der Sande, William D. Gosling, Kevin S. Burgess
Published in: Plant Ecology & Diversity, Issue 16, 2024, Page(s) 127-146, ISSN 1755-0874
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2023.2274844

Drivers and benefits of natural regeneration in tropical forests

Author(s): Robin L. Chazdon, Nico Blüthgen, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Viola Heinrich, Frans Bongers
Published in: Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Issue 1, 2025, Page(s) 298-314, ISSN 3005-0677
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44358-025-00043-y

Drivers and Mechanisms of Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Secondary Tropical Forests

Author(s): Tomonari Matsuo, Lucy Amissah, Masha T. van der Sande, Fons van der Plas, Jazz Kok, Salim Mohammed Abdul, Lucas Chojnacki, Tijs Kuzee, Lhouyangdar Khulpu, Lourens Poorter
Published in: Ecosystems, Issue 29, 2026, ISSN 1432-9840
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-026-01047-1

Landscape openness has different effects on the structure, diversity and functional composition of Brazilian rainforests

Author(s): Nathália V. H. Safar, Masha van der Sande, Carlos Ernesto G. R. Schaefer, Luiz Fernando S. Magnago, Sebastião Venâncio Martins, Marcelo Simonelli, Lourens Poorter
Published in: Forest Ecology and Management, Issue 12, 2022, Page(s) 120395, ISSN 0378-1127
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120395

Aboveground forest biomass varies across continents, ecological zones and successional stages: Refined IPCC default values for tropical and subtropical forests

Author(s): Danaë M A Rozendaal; Daniela Requena Suarez; Veronique De Sy; Valerio Avitabile; Sarah Carter; C Y Adou Yao; Esteban Alvarez-Davila; Kristina Anderson-Teixeira; Alejandro Araujo-Murakami; Luzmila Arroyo; Benjamin Barca; Timothy R Baker; Luca Birigazzi; Frans Bongers; Anne Branthomme; Roel J W Brienen; João M B Carreiras; Roberto Cazzolla Gatti; Susan C Cook-Patton; Mathieu Decuyper; Ben DeVries;
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac45b3

Soil resistance and recovery during neotropical forest succession

Author(s): Masha T van der Sande, Jennifer S Powers, Thom W Kuyper, Natalia Norden, Beatriz Salgado-Negret, Jarcilene Silva de Almeida, Frans Bongers, Diego Delgado, Daisy H Dent, Géraldine Derroire, Mario Marcos do Espirito Santo, Juan Manuel Dupuy, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Bryan Finegan, Mayra E Gavito, José Luis Hernández-Stefanoni, Catarina C Jakovac, Isabel L Jones, Maria das Dores Magalhães Veloso
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Issue 12, 2022, Page(s) 20210074, ISSN 1471-2970
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0074

Height growth and biomass partitioning during secondary succession differ among forest light strata and successional guilds in a tropical rainforest

Author(s): Tomonari Matsuo, Frans Bongers, Miguel Martínez-Ramos, Masha T. van der Sande, Lourens Poorte
Published in: Oikos, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) e10486, ISSN 0030-1299
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/oik.10486

Strong floristic distinctiveness across Neotropical successional forests

Author(s): Catarina C Jakovac, Jorge A Meave, Frans Bongers, Susan G Letcher, Juan Manuel Dupuy, Daniel Piotto, Danaë MA Rozendaal, Marielos Peña-Claros, Dylan Craven, Braulio A Santos, Alexandre Siminski, Alfredo C Fantini, Alice C Rodrigues, Alma Hernández-Jaramillo, Alvaro Idárraga, André B Junqueira, Angelica María Almeyda Zambrano, Ben HJ De Jong, Bruno Ximenes Pinho, Bryan Finegan, Carolina Caste
Published in: Science Advances, 2022, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn1767

Land use legacies affect early tropical forest succession in Mexico

Author(s): Iris Hordijk, Lourens Poorter, Miguel Martínez‐Ramos, Frans Bongers, Rey David López Mendoza, Pascual Jamangapé Romero, Masha van der Sande, Rodrigo Muñoz, Robyn Jansma, Natsuho Fujisawa, Jorge A. Meave
Published in: Applied Vegetation Science, Issue 27, 2024, ISSN 1402-2001
Publisher: Opulus Press AB
DOI: 10.1111/avsc.12784

A comprehensive framework for vegetation succession

Author(s): Lourens Poorter, Masha T. van der Sande, Lucy Amissah, Frans Bongers, Iris Hordijk, Jazz Kok, Susan G. W. Laurance, Miguel Martínez-Ramos, Tomonari Matsuo, Jorge A. Meave, Rodrigo Muñoz, Marielos Peña-Claros, Michiel van Breugel, Bruno Herault, Catarina C. Jakovac, Edwin Lebrija-Trejos, Natalia Norden, Madelon Lohbeck
Published in: Ecosphere, Issue 15, 2024, Page(s) e4794, ISSN 2150-8925
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4794

Drivers of biomass stocks and productivity of tropical secondary forests

Author(s): Tomonari Matsuo, Lourens Poorter, Masha T. van der Sande, Salim Mohammed Abdul, Dieudonne Wedaga Koyiba, Justice Opoku, Bas de Wit, Tijs Kuzee, Lucy Amissah
Published in: Ecology, Issue 106, 2025, ISSN 0012-9658
Publisher: Ecological Society of America
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4488

Forest structure drives changes in light heterogeneity during tropical secondary forest succession

Author(s): Tomonari Matsuo, Miguel Martínez‐Ramos, Frans Bongers, Masha T. van der Sande, Lourens Poorter
Published in: Journal of Ecology, Issue 12, 2021, Page(s) 2871-2884, ISSN 0022-0477
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13680

Successional theories

Author(s): Lourens Poorter, Lucy Amissah, Frans Bongers, Iris Hordijk, Jazz Kok, Susan G. W. Laurance, Madelon Lohbeck, Miguel Martínez-Ramos, Tomonari Matsuo, Jorge A. Meave, Rodrigo Muñoz, Marielos Peña-Claros, Masha T. van der Sande
Published in: Biological Reviews, Issue 98, 2023, Page(s) 2049-2077, ISSN 1464-7931
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12995

Simple ecological indicators benchmark regeneration success of Amazonian forests

Author(s): André L. Giles, Juliana Schietti, Milena F. Rosenfield, Rita C. Mesquita, Daniel Luis Mascia Vieira, Ima C. G. Vieira, Lourens Poorter, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Marielos Peña-Claros, João Siqueira, Luis Oliveira Junior, Mário Marcos do Espírito-Santo, Priscila Sanjuan de Medeiros Sarmento, Joice N. Ferreira, Erika Berenguer, Jos Barlow, Fernando Elias, Henrique Luis Godinho Cassol, Richarlly C
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 5, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01949-9

Trait‐Based Community Assembly in Early Tropical Forest Succession

Author(s): Tomonari Matsuo, Masha T. van der Sande, Lucy Amissah, Jonathan Dabo, Salim Mohammed Abdul, Lourens Poorter
Published in: Journal of Vegetation Science, Issue 36, 2026, ISSN 1100-9233
Publisher: Opulus Press AB
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.70099

Vertical and horizontal light heterogeneity along gradients of secondary succession in cool‐ and warm‐temperate forests

Author(s): Tomonari Matsuo; Tsutom Hiura; Yusuke Onoda
Published in: Journal of Vegetation Science, Issue 33, 2022, Page(s) e13135, ISSN 1100-9233
Publisher: Opulus Press AB
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.13135

Autogenic regulation and resilience in tropical dry forest

Author(s): Rodrigo Muñoz, Frans Bongers, Danaë M. A.Rozendaal, Edgar J. González, Juan M. Dupuy, Jorge A. Meave,
Published in: Journal of Ecology, 2021, Page(s) 3295-3307, ISSN 0022-0477
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13749

Tree demographic strategies largely overlap across succession in Neotropical wet and dry forest communities

Author(s): Markus E. Schorn, Stephan Kambach, Robin L. Chazdon, Dylan Craven, Caroline E. Farrior, Jorge A. Meave, Rodrigo Muñoz, Michiel van Breugel, Lucy Amissah, Frans Bongers, Bruno Hérault, Catarina C. Jakovac, Natalia Norden, Lourens Poorter, Masha T. van der Sande, Christian Wirth, Diego Delgado, Daisy H. Dent, Saara J. DeWalt, Juan M. Dupuy, Bryan Finegan, Jefferson S. Hall, José L. Hernández‐S
Published in: Ecology, Issue 105, 2024, ISSN 0012-9658
Publisher: Ecological Society of America
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4321

Herbaceous species and dry forest species have more acquisitive leaf traits than woody species and wet forest species

Author(s): Tomonari Matsuo, Masha T. van der Sande, Lucy Amissah, Jonathan Dabo, Salim Mohammed Abdul, Lourens Poorter
Published in: Functional Ecology, Issue 38, 2023, Page(s) 194–205, ISSN 0269-8463
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14477

Regeneración natural de bosques tropicales en campos agrícolas abandonados en Ghana

Author(s): Matsuo, T., Amissah, L., Kok, J., Poorter, L.
Published in: Boletín de la Sociedad Científica Mexicana de Ecologia, Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 44-53
Publisher: la Sociedad Científica Mexicana de Ecologia

Efectos de la historia del uso de suelo y de la cubertura forestal en el paisaje sobre la recuperación de bosques

Author(s): Hordijk, I., Poorter, L., Martinez-Ramos, M, Bongers, F, Muñoz, R, Meave, J.A.
Published in: Boletín de la Sociedad Científica Mexicana de Ecologia, Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 34-41
Publisher: la Sociedad Científica Mexicana de Ecologia

Resistencia del suelo al uso agricola y su recuperación durante la regeneración natural de bosques tropicales

Author(s): Van der Sande, M.T., Meave, J.A., Mora, F., Wilson Fernandes, G., Marcos do Espitiru Santo, M., Poorter, L.,
Published in: Boletín de la Sociedad Científica Mexicana de Ecologia, Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 32-42
Publisher: la Sociedad Científica Mexicana de Ecologia

Un siglo de teorías sobre sucesión

Author(s): Lourens Poorter, Frans Bongers, Masha T. van der Sande
Published in: Boletín de la Sociedad Científica Mexicana de Ecologia, Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 14-22
Publisher: la Sociedad Científica Mexicana de Ecologia

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