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. Even as human activities result in extensive fragmentation and deforestation, tropical forests demonstrate a great capacity for natural and human-aided regeneration. Although these damaged...
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believ...
