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Andrew W. Whelan, Seth W. Bigelow, Mary Frances Nieminen and Steven B. Jack
Seasonal timing of prescribed fire and alterations to the structure and composition of fuels in savannas and woodlands can release understory hardwoods, potentially resulting in a global increase of closed-canopy forest and a loss of biodiversity. We hyp...
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Lorenzo Sallustio, Marco Di Cristofaro, Maaz Maqsood Hashmi, Matteo Vizzarri, Tommaso Sitzia, Bruno Lasserre and Marco Marchetti
Land use by humans strongly alters the landscape mosaic, either by reducing or increasing its heterogeneity. One of the most recent and widespread land use changes in Europe has been the spontaneous reforestation of marginal agricultural lands. These pri...
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Liza S. Comita, María Uriarte, Jimena Forero-Montaña, W. John Kress, Nathan G. Swenson, Jill Thompson, María Natalia Umaña and Jess K. Zimmerman
Disturbance plays a key role in shaping forest composition and diversity. We used a community phylogeny and long-term forest dynamics data to investigate biotic and abiotic factors shaping tropical forest regeneration following both human and natural dis...
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Jessie C. Buettel, Stefania Ondei and Barry W. Brook
The study of treefall and its after-effects is a common theme in studies of forest structure and local dynamics, yet its value as descriptor of broader-scale ecological dynamics is rarely explored. Here we synthesize the most highly cited literature on t...
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Thomas K. Rudel
Forests in the dry tropics differ significantly from forests in the humid tropics in their biomass and in their socio-ecological contexts, so it might be reasonable to assume that the dynamics that drive deforestation in these two settings would also dif...
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