secondary forests

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: 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 »