… richness during succession, they do not discuss the underlying community assembly processes,
ie, … forces act on net species richness during the course of secondary forest succession. …

… across secondary forest succession remain unclear. Here, we studied the assembly processes
of … dynamics across secondary forest succession. Our results showed that the stochastic …

… to later successional subtropical forests. Prokaryotic and fungal community composition was
more variable in early successional forests but converged in the later successional forests. …

… assembly mechanisms operate on the EM fungal community at different stages in secondary
subtropical forest succession. … are different mechanisms of assembly operating in the EM …

… secondary and old-growth forests supports the idea that species composition is one of the
last components to recover during successional process. … that secondary Atlantic Forest sites …

… processes and a strong environmental modification that drives community assembly during a
long-term forest succession… community assembly along a local secondary forest succession …

… Our understanding of tropical forest succession has been largely drawn from studies of wet
… , the secondary forests in this study may over time come to resemble old-growth forests. …

… based assembly processes during old-field succession based … some part of the succession.
Departure from randomness did … Six traits had changing patterns along the succession. Four …

… We recognize the important role of seed dispersal and dispersal limitation in community
assembly during secondary forest succession (Guariguata & Ostertag 2001). However, we feel …

… Likewise, more recently developed community assembly … into our understanding of ecological
succession 5 . Currently, there … successional theory with more recent community assembly …