… during succession compared with the trait distribution of the species present … dominant
species become functionally less similar and more divergent during secondary forest succession. …

… of secondary forests that are 5 to 18 years old are dominated … forest structure and species
diversity in secondary forests over time; (2) evaluate the species composition and the species …

… oak forests (evergreen forests dominated by Q. ilex), mixed oak forests (deciduous forests
dominated … broad-leaved forests (deciduous forests dominated by a mixture of species such as …

… We refer to secondary forest succession as the woody vegetation that regrows after complete
forest … The species that dominate the canopies of secondary forests may also affect light …

… during secondary succession. We hypothesized that time, soil type and dominant vegetation
type … a new methodology to test factors that affect forest succession. Considering temperate …

… along a chronosequence of secondary forest succession. Soil total N, P and … plant nutrient
use strategies, especially considering the dominant species, change along forest succession? …

… Results similar to those reported here are likely to occur in chronosequences where one or
two species clearly dominate the successional for a long initial period, and in which resource …

… While the five most dominant species in the secondary forest plots represented 66 percent
of all trees, they represented less than 1.3 percent of all trees with dbh ≥ 10 cm in the old-…

… on successional vegetation of two of these factors: the rate of supply of a limiting soil resource
and the past history of the vegetation… The dominant plant species in this field in 1982 were …

… forests, unburned secondary forests and secondary forests … the course of succession in a
lowland Atlantic forest in south-… forest succession and to the conservation of Atlantic forest …