Bamboo is an important forest resource in many countries that serves as an excellent
substitute for timber products and provides a multitude of other food and non-food uses. This …

Restoration ecology is a young academic field, but one with enough history to judge it
against past and current expectations of the science's potential. The practice of ecological …

The mechanistic basis underpinning forest succession is the gap-phase paradigm in which
overstory disturbance interacts with seedling and sapling shade tolerance to determine …

Abstract Bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) have posed a serious threat to native
ecosystems, though they play an important role socially and economically. Here we review …

Rain forests represent the world's richest repository of terrestrial biodiversity, and play a
major role in regulating the global climate. They support the livelihoods of a substantial …

Funding for basic conservation research is chronically lacking. The potential for ecotourism
to fund conservation research exists, but has been little explored. One branch of ecotourism …

Canopy disturbance explains liana abundance and distribution within tropical forests and
thus may also explain the widespread pattern of increasing liana abundance; however, this …

Shrubs are multi-stemmed short woody plants, more widespread than trees, important in
many ecosystems, neglected in ecology compared to herbs and trees, but currently in focus …

With fast growth rates and clonal reproduction, bamboos can rapidly invade forest areas,
drastically changing their original structure. In the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, where recent …

People have modified landscapes throughout the Holocene (the last c. 11,700 years) by
modifying soils, burning forests, cultivating and domesticating plants, and directly and …