Natural Regeneration in Plantations of Native Trees in Lowland Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Community Structure, Diversity, and Dispersal Syndromes

• Published in: Restoration ecology Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 379 - 389
• Main Authors: Sansevero, Jerônimo Boelsums Barreto, Prieto, Pablo Viany, de Moraes, Luiz Fernando Duarte, Rodrigues, Pablo JoséFrancisco Pena
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2011
• Subjects: Community ecology; Community structure; degraded land; Environmental restoration; Forest management; forest plantation; forest succession; Native species; Plant populations; restoration; seed dispersal; Trees; Brazil

Plantations of native‐tree species are often recommended for ecological restoration, but the understanding of how these techniques catalyze natural ecological processes is limited. We investigated natural regeneration in five plantations of native trees in the Poço das Antas Biological Reserve (PABR...