Understanding tropical forest succession is critical for the development of tropical forest
conservation strategies worldwide, given that tropical secondary forests can be considered …

Applied nucleation, mostly based upon planting tree islands, has been proposed as a cost‐
effective strategy to meet ambitious global forest and landscape restoration targets. We …

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

Most ecologists are not card-carrying members of either individualistic or interdependent
guilds, but our perception of plant community organization, and the way we conduct …

The pace of deforestation worldwide has necessitated the development of strategies that
restore forest cover quickly and efficiently. We review one potential strategy, applied …

Tropical forests are being cleared at an alarming rate although our understanding of their
ecology is limited. It is therefore essential to design restoration experiments that both further …

The first few years of tropical forest restoration can be expensive, especially when applied to
expansive areas. In light of this, passive restoration has been recommended as a …

Mesoamerica provides a unique context for biodiversity conservation in managed
landscapes because of its geography, history of human intervention, and present …

Natural regeneration of large-seeded, late-successional trees in fragmented tropical
landscapes can be strongly limited by a lack of seed dispersal resulting in the need for more …

Summary 1 In Panama, abandoned agricultural lands that supported tropical rain forest are
invaded by the exotic invasive grass Saccharum spontaneum, which precludes native forest …