T. Mitchell Aide

TL;DR: Most of the reviewed studies are using multiple measures to evaluate restoration success, but it would encourage future projects to include at least two variables within each of the three ecosystem attributes that clearly related to ecosystem functioning and at leastTwo reference sites to capture the variation that exist in ecosystems.

TL;DR: A biomass recovery map of Latin America is presented, which illustrates geographical and climatic variation in carbon sequestration potential during forest regrowth and will support policies to minimize forest loss in areas where biomass resilience is naturally low and promote forest regeneration and restoration in humid tropical lowland areas with high biomass resilience.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the woody vegetation in 71 abandoned pastures and forest sites in four regions of Puerto Rico, and demonstrate that one restoration strategy for tropical forest in abandoned pasture is simply to protect the areas from fire, and allow natural regeneration to produce secondary forest.

TL;DR: The authors in this paper suggest that important social and conservation gains can be made by focusing social programs on preparing rural migrants for an urban environment and promoting ecosystem recovery in the marginal agriculture and pasture lands that are being abandoned.

TL;DR: Estimates of the contemporary global extent of deforestation, selective logging, and secondary regrowth in humid tropical forests are combined to highlight the enormous geographic extent of forest change throughout the humid tropics and the considerable limitations of the science and technology available for such a synthesis.