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Second growth : the promise of tropical forest regeneration in an age of deforestation / Robin L. Chazdon.
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TextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014Description: xx, 449 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226117911 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226118079 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Reforestation | Forest ecology | Tropics -- EcologyDDC classification: 577.3 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-428) and index.
Perceptions of tropical forests and natural regeneration -- Ancient human legacies in tropical forest landscapes -- Landscape transformation and tropical forest regeneration through prehistory -- Tropical forest dynamics and disturbance regimes -- Successional pathways and forest transformations -- Tropical forest succession on newly created substrates -- Forest regeneration following agricultural land uses -- Forest regeneration following hurricanes and fires -- Forest regeneration following selective logging and land-use synergisms -- Functional traits and community assembly during secondary succession -- Recovery of ecosystem functions during forest regeneration -- Animal diversity and plant-animal interactions in regenerating forests -- Tropical reforestation pathways -- Regenerating forests in tropical landscapes -- Synthesis: The promise of tropical forest regeneration in an age of deforestation.