Second growth : the promise of tropical forest regeneration in an age of deforestation / Robin L. Chazdon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chazdon, Robin Lee, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reforestation.

Forest ecology.

Ecology.

Tropics--Ecology.

Tropics.

Physical Description:

xx, 449 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm

Other Title:

2nd growth

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Summary:

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these "pristine" ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to the fore the previously overlooked counterpart to old-growth forest: second growth. By providing a thorough and wide-ranging overview of successional and restoration pathways, Chazdon not only shows that regenerating-or second-growth-forests are and always have been vital, dynamic reservoirs of biodiversity and environmental services, but she also underscores the need to conserve, and further study, regenerating tropical forests in an attempt to inspire a new age of local and global stewardship. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Perceptions of Tropical Forests and Natural Regeneration 1

1.1 Viewing Forests as a Cycle 1

1.2 The Resilience of Tropical Forests 4

1.3 Forest Regeneration, Succession, and Forest Degradation 5

1.4 The Geographic Extent of Deforestation and Forest Regeneration across the Tropics 7

1.5 The Tropical Forests of the Future 10

Chapter 2 Ancient Human Legacies in Tropical Forest Landscapes 12

2.1 Overview 12

2.2 The Peopling of the Tropics 74

2.3 Impacts of Early Hunter-Gatherer Societies 16

2.4 The Development of Agriculture 21

2.5 Holocene Climate Variability, Forest Change, and Agricultural Expansion 28

2.6 Conclusion 32

Chapter 3 Landscape Transformation and Tropical Forest Regeneration through Prehistory 33

3.1 Overview 33

3.2 Earthworks and Landscape Transformations 33

3.3 Prehistoric Fires: Synergies between Natural and Human Causes 40

3.4 Ancient Soil Modifications 44

3.5 The Scale of Prehistoric Human Impacts in the Neotropics 47

3.6 Paleoecological Reconstruction of Tropical Forest Regeneration 50

3.7 Conclusion 53

Chapter 1 Tropical Forest Dynamics and Disturbance Regimes 55

4.1 Overview 55

4.2 Disturbance Regimes in Tropical Forest Regions 56

4.3 Gap Dynamics and the Forest Growth Cycle 61

4.4 Detection of Historical Tropical Forest Disturbance 65

4.5 Are Old-Growth Tropical Forests Stable? 69

4.6 Conclusion 72

Chapter 5 Successional Pathways and Forest Transformations 73

5.1 Overview 73

5.2 Variability in Successional Pathways 74

5.3 Successional Stages and Species Classification 76

5.4 Forest Definitions and Concepts 88

5.5 Approaches to Studying Tropical Forest Succession 91

5.6 Conclusion 95

Chapter 6 Tropical Forest Succession on Newly Created Substrates 97

6.1 Overview 97

6.2 Biological Legacies and Local Resource Availability 98

6.3 Colonization and Succession on Landslides 101

6.4 Succession following Volcanic Eruptions 103

6.5 Riverbank Succession 107

6.6 Conclusion 110

Chapter 7 Forest Regeneration following Agricultural Land Uses 111

7.1 Overview 111

7.2 Effects of Land Use and Biological Legacies on Propagule Availability and Modes of Regeneration 113

7.3 Effects of Land Use on Site Quality and Resource Availability 120

7.4 Conclusion 126

Chapter 8 Forest Regeneration following Hurricanes and Fires 127

8.1 Overview 127

8.2 Hurricane Damage and Regeneration 129

8.3 Tropical Forest Regeneration after Single and Recurrent Fires 136

8.4 Conclusion 145

Chapter 9 Forest Regeneration following Selective Logging and Land-Use Synergisms 146

9.1 Overview 146

9.2 Harvesting Intensity, Forest Disturbance, and Postlogging Forest Regeneration 148

9.3 Effects of Logging on Animal Abundance and Diversity 755

9.4 Consequences of Land-Use Synergisms for Forest Regeneration 159

9.5 Conclusion 162

Chapter 10 Functional Traits and Community Assembly during Secondary Succession 167

10.1 Overview 167

10.2 Environmental Gradients during Succession 170

10.3 Successional Changes in Life-Form Composition 172

10.4 Functional Traits of Early and Late Successional Species 175

10.5 Environmental Filtering, Functional Diversity, and Community Assembly during Succession 185

10.6 A General Scheme for Community Assembly during Secondary Succession 192

10.7 Conclusion 194

Chapter 11 Recovery of Ecosystem Functions during Forest Regeneration 196

11.1 Overview 196

11.2 Loss of Nutrients and Carbon during Conversion of Forest to Agriculture 198

11.3 Accumulation of Carbon and Nutrients during Forest Regeneration 206

11.4 Nutrient Cycling and Nutrient Limitation 213

11.5 Hydrology and Water Balance 216

11.6 Conclusion 217

Chapter 12 Animal Diversity and Plant-Animal interactions in Regenerating Forests 219

12.1 Overview 219

12.2 Animal Diversity in Regenerating Forests 225

12.3 PI ant-Herbivore Interactions during Forest Regeneration 232

12.4 Seed Dispersal and Predation during Forest Regeneration 234

12.5 Pollination in Regenerating Forests 241

12.6 Conclusion 243

Chapter 13 Tropical Reforestation Pathways 245

13.1 Overview 245

13.2 Reforestation Goals and Decisions 246

13.3 Reforestation through Management of Forest Fallows 256

13.4 Ecological Forest Restoration in the Tropics 259

13.5 Recovery of Biodiversity dining Reforestation 268

13.6 Recovery of Ecosystem Properties during Forest Restoration 270

13.7 Conclusion 272

Chapter 14 Regenerating Forests in Tropical Landscapes 274

14.1 Overview 274

14.2 Land-Use Transitions and Forest Transitions 278

14.3 The Landscape Context of Forest Regeneration 279

14.4 Socioecological Drivers of Tropical Reforestation 284

14.5 Enhancing Forest Regeneration and Human Livelihoods in the Landscape Matrix 294

14.6 Conclusion 302

Chapter 15 Synthesis: The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation 304

15.1 The Power of Forest Regeneration 304

15.2 Tropical Forest Change and Resilience 306

15.3 The Current and Future Value of Regenerating Tropical Forests 309

15.4 New Approaches to Promoting Forest Regeneration 314.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-429) and index.

ISBN:

9780226117911

022611791X

9780226118079

022611807X

OCLC:

856861452