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Functional recovery of secondary tropical forests

2021; National Academy of Sciences; Volume: 118; Issue: 49 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1073/pnas.2003405118

1091-6490

Lourens Poorter, Danaë M. A. Rozendaal, Frans Bongers, Jarcilene Silva de Almeida‐Cortez, Francisco S. Álvarez, José Luís Andrade, Luis Felipe Arreola Villa, Justin M. Becknell, Radika Bhaskar, Vanessa Boukili, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Ricardo G. César, Jérôme Chave, Robin L. Chazdon, Gabriel Dalla Colletta, Dylan Craven, Ben de Jong, Julie S. Denslow, Daisy H. Dent, Saara J. DeWalt, Elisa Díaz García, Juan Manuel Dupuy, Sandra M. Durán, Mário M. Espírito‐Santo, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Bryan Finegan, Vanessa Granda Moser, Jefferson S. Hall, José Luis Hernández‐Stefanoni, Catarina C. Jakovac, Deborah Kennard, Edwin Lebrija‐Trejos, Susan G. Letcher, Madelon Lohbeck, Omar R. López, E. Marín-Spiotta, Miguel Martínez‐Ramos, Jorge A. Meave, Francisco Mora, Vanessa de Souza Moreno, Sandra Cristina Müller, Rodrigo Muñoz, Robert Muscarella, Yule Roberta Ferreira Nunes, Susana Ochoa‐Gaona, Rafael S. Oliveira, Horacio Paz, Arturo Sánchez‐Azofeifa, Lucía Sanaphre‐Villanueva, Marisol Toledo, María Uriarte, Luis P. Utrera, Michiel van Breugel, Masha T. van der Sande, Maria das Dores Magalhães Veloso, S. Joseph Wright‬, Kátia Janaína Zanini, Jess K. Zimmerman, Mark Westoby,

Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Significance Tropical forests disappear rapidly through deforestation but also have the potential to regrow naturally through a process called secondary succession. To advance successional theory, it is essential to understand how these secondary forests and their assembly vary across broad spatial scales. We do so by synthesizing continental-scale patterns in succession using a functional trait approach. We show that the start and pathway of succession varies with climatic water availability. In dry forests, succession is driven by drought tolerance traits and in wet forests by shade tolerance traits. Based on these successional principles, we propose an ecologically sound strategy to improve active forest restoration.