Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

We analyse how community wood density (WD) recovers during secondary tropical forest succession. In wet forests succession proceeds from low to high WD, in dry forests from high to low WD, resulting in convergence of community WD of dry and wet forests over time, as vegetation cover builds up.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-z3s-3d7t
PID https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-1r-x437
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Creator Poorter, L.; Rozendaal, D.M.A.; Bongers, F.; Almeida-Cortez, J.S. de; Almeyda Zambrano, A.M.; Alvarez, F.S.; Andrade, J.L.; Arreola Villa, L.F.; Balvanera, P.; Becknell, J.M.; Bentos, T.V.; Bhaskar, R.; Boukili, V.; Brancalion, P.H.S.; Broadbent, E.N.; Cesar, R.G.; Chave, J.; Chazdon, R.L.; Colletta, G.D.; Craven, D.; Jong, B.H.J. de; Denslow, J.S.; Dent, D.H.; DeWalt, S.J.
Publisher Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Contributor Diaz Garcia, E.; Dupuy, J.M.; Durán, S.M.; Espírito Santo, M.M.; Fandiño, M.C.; Fernandes, G.W.; Finegan, B.; Granda Moser, V.; Hall, J.S.; Hernández-Stefanoni, J.L.; Jakovac, C.C.; Junqueira, A.B.; Kennard, D.; Lebrija-Trejos, E.; Letcher, S.G.; Lohbeck, M.; Lopez, O.R.; Marín-Spiotta, E.; Martínez-Ramos, M.; Martins, S.V.; Massoca, P.E.S.; Meave, J.A.; Mesquita, R.; Mora, F.; Souza Moreno, V. de; Müller, S.C.; Muñoz, R.; Muscarella, R.; Oliveira Neto, S.N. de; Nunes, Y.R.F.; Ochoa-Gaona, S.; Paz, H.; Peña-Claros, M.; Piotto, D.; Ruíz, J.; Sanaphre-Villanueva, L.; Sanchez-Azofeifa, A.; Schwartz, N.B.; Steininger, M.K.; Thomas, W.W.; Toledo, M.; Uriarte, M.; Utrera, L.P.; Breugel, M. van; Wal, H. van der
Publication Year 2019
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Biospheric Sciences; Ecology; Forestry; Geosciences; Life Sciences; Natural Sciences