Mário M. Espírito Santo

TL;DR: Forest recovery is analyzed using 1,403 plots that differ in age since agricultural abandonment from 50 sites across the Neotropics to analyse changes in community composition using species-specific stem wood density (WD), which is a key trait for plant growth, survival and forest carbon storage.

TL;DR: How the abundance of Leguminosae is affected by both recovery from disturbance and large-scale rainfall gradients is shown through a synthesis of forest inventory plots from a network of 42 Neotropical forest chronosequences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed functional recovery using community data on seven plant characteristics (traits) of 1,016 forest plots from 30 chronosequence sites across the Neotropics.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used a chronosequence approach to assess how soils resist forest conversion and agricultural land use, and how soils recover during subsequent tropical forest succession on abandoned agricultural fields.