Natural regeneration as a tool for large-scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges

• Published in: Biotropica Vol. 48; no. 6; pp. 716 - 730
• Main Authors: Chazdon, Robin L., Guariguata, Manuel R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2016; Wiley; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: biocenosis; biodiversity; cost effectiveness; cost-effective restoration; Deforestation; dispersión de semillas; dispersão de sementes; ecological resilience; Economic conditions; Economics; Ecosystem resilience; ecosystem services; environmental factors; Environmental restoration; forest clearing; forest restoration; governance; Heterogeneity; Indigenous species; issues and policy; Land use; landscape management; landscape restoration; landscapes; Local communities; monitoring; natural regeneration; resilience; resiliencia; resiliência; restauración costo-eficiente; restauración del paisaje; restauração custo-efetiva; restauração de paisagem; secondary succession; SECTION I. WHY REFOREST? THE SCALE OF THE CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITY; seed dispersal; servicios ecosistémicos; serviços ecossistêmicos; sucesión secundaria; sucessão secundária; Tropical environments; Tropical forests; tropics

A major global effort to enable cost-effective natural regeneration is needed to achieve ambitious forest and landscape restoration goals. Natural forest regeneration can potentially play a major role in large-scale landscape restoration in tropical regions. Here, we focus on the conditions that fav...