Forest regeneration

Special Issue: Natural regeneration in the Tropics

Landscape in the Marqués de Comillas area, part of the La Selva Lacandona region, southeastern Mexico. This area was open to human communities in 1970 and now the landscape is conformed of a mosaic of different agricultural uses and remnants of old-growth forest and patches of secondary forests. (Photo by: Leonor Solís. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, UNAM. Used with permission and all rights reserved).

–For immediate release– Natural regeneration often ignored as a viable land-use option Biotropica’s latest Special Issue published online Monday… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Seed & Fern Spore Bank of an African Tropical Forest.

Several team members plan the project. Lead author Josephine Esaete is the one wearing an orange cap.(Photo by Vigdis Vandvik)

Esaete, J., Eycott, A. E., Reiniö, J., Telford, R. J. and Vandvik, V. (2014), The Seed and Fern Spore Bank… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Whitfield et al. Sucession in New Guinea’s Lowlands

Field crew, from left to right: Gibson Sosanika (co-author), Jori Umbang, Tom, Markus Dugam, Billy Bau

Whitfeld, T. J. S., Lasky, J. R., Damas, K., Sosanika, G., Molem, K. and Montgomery, R. A. (2014), Species Richness,… Read More »

Photos from the Field: Leal et al. Leaf-cutter ants in human-modified landscapes

Rainer Wirth and Sebastian Meyer (former PhD student) on the mound of an Atta cephalotes nest. Such nests have been shown to operate as ecological filters by creating a specific disturbance regime that differs from other disturbances in tropical forests. Original results published in Correa et al. 2010, Meyer et al. 2011a and 2011b.

Leal, I. R., Wirth, R. and Tabarelli, M. (2014), The Multiple Impacts of Leaf-Cutting Ants and Their Novel Ecological Role… Read More »