For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

A major global effort to enable cost‐effective natural regeneration is needed to achieve
ambitious forest and landscape restoration goals. Natural forest regeneration can potentially …

If current trends continue, the tropical forests of the Anthropocene will be much smaller,
simpler, steeper and emptier than they are today. They will be more diminished in size and …

NEWS & COMMENT were stopped. As stated previously, however, most studies focused on
small temporal and spatial scales. Although efforts should continue to facilitate tropical forest …

Tropical forests disappear rapidly because of deforestation, yet they have the potential to
regrow naturally on abandoned lands. We analyze how 12 forest attributes recover during …

Five anthropogenic drivers–land use change, wood extraction, hunting, atmospheric
change, climate change–will largely determine the future of tropical forests. The geographic …

In the past few years, numerous global, national, and regional targets have been set to
restore millions of hectares of tropical forest to achieve multiple goals, including carbon …

Secondary forests are increasingly important components of human‐modified landscapes in
the tropics. Successional pathways, however, can vary enormously across and within …

In an interval of just 1–2 decades, the nature of tropical forest destruction has changed.
Rather than being dominated by rural farmers, tropical deforestation now is substantially …

Understanding and mitigating the impact of an ever-increasing population and global
economic activity on tropical forests is one of the great challenges currently facing biologists …