Testing species abundance distribution models in tropical forest successions: Implications for fine-scale passive restoration

Villa, Pedro Manuel; Martins, Sebastião Venâncio; Rodrigues, Alice Cristina; Safar, Nathália Vieira Hissa; Bonilla, Michael Alejandro Castro; Ali, Arshad

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2019.05.015

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“…Rarefaction was estimated as the mean of 100 replicate bootstrapping runs to estimate 95% confidence intervals (e.g. Campos et al 2018;Rodrigues et al 2019;2019b). Whenever the 95% confidence intervals did not overlap, species numbers differed significantly at P < 0.05 (Colwell et al 2012).…”

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“…According to Rodrigues et al, (2019), we evaluated the number of stem-dominant and carbondominant species in the study area. In this sense, we considered as 'carbon dominants' the species that accumulated 50% of the total carbon when ranked by decreasing order of contribution to the total AGC and as 'stem dominants' the species that accumulated 50% of the total number of individuals in the tree community (Bastin et al 2015;Fauset et al 2015;Rodrigues et al 2019).…”

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“…However, since the same stem-dominant species are not the same as the biomass-dominant species, because species may differ in their contribution to ecosystem functioning (Rodrigues et al 2019), we estimated the maximum number of species required to account for 50% of carbon in the study area.…”

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“…Thus, we also calculated the contribution of stem dominants to the total carbon and regressed the percentage contribution of each species to the carbon of the whole dataset against their percentage contribution to the number of stems of the whole dataset (Fauset et al 2015;Rodrigues et al 2019).…”

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“…Poorter et al 2017;, such as seed dispersal syndrome and regeneration strategies (Wright et al 2005;Reich 2014;Santos-Silva et al 2016). In this sense, there is strong evidence that during the early stages of tropical forest succession, light-demanding pioneer species dominate (Guariguata and Ostertag 2001;Villa et al 2018aVilla et al , 2019 along with non-zoochoric pioneer species (Tabarelli et al 2010(Tabarelli et al , 2012. Along the succession, the pioneer species are gradually replaced by shade-tolerant species due to decreasing light in the understory (Chazdon 2014;Villa et al 2018a;Poorter et al 2019).…”

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Brazilian Atlantic forest carbon stocks undergoing active restoration after bauxite mining exploration: an approach based on functional attributes

Balestrin¹,

Sv²,

Villa³

2020

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Background: Tropical forests are important carbon sinks at the global scale. They are important reservoirs of terrestrial carbon and play a fundamental role in global climate regulation. We evaluated the tree species diversity and dominance patterns in stem and carbon stocks in a Brazilian Atlantic forest restored after bauxite mining exploration in the state of Minas Gerais, south-eastern Brazil.Methods: Aboveground carbon was estimated for a permanent 1-ha forest restored after 14 years, measuring all trees with a circumference at breast height (CBH) ≥ 15 cm, planted during restoration. We studied species richness, community composition and stem- and carbon-dominant species based on two categorical functional attributes associated with forest regeneration (successional strategy and dispersal syndrome).Results: The restored forest obtained a high carbon accumulation (~58 Mg ha -1 ), between two and three times more than second-growth forests with the same or more time for natural regeneration, when compared with other restored Brazilian seasonal semideciduous Atlantic Forest stands. The restored forest presented a marked local carbon dominance, with ~7.5% of the tree species of the community representing 50% of the total aboveground carbon (AGC). Anemochoric and zoochoric species presented a similar pattern of carbon dominance, while the initial second-growth species presented a higher carbon storage capacity than the pioneer species.Conclusions: Our findings stress the importance of analysing the relative contributions of species, classified by functional attributes and by their dominance, to ecosystem functioning at fine-scale active restoration.

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2020

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Complementing seedling planting with nucleation techniques increases forest restoration potential in areas around bauxite mining

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Martins,

Fioresi

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The soil seed bank is one of the most important ecological indicators to evaluate and monitor the ecological restoration process of plant communities. We aimed to analyze the influence of two different ecological restoration techniques on the diversity and floristic composition of the soil seed bank and of standing vegetation, in two 4‐year‐old areas under forest restoration around bauxite mining, Southeast Brazil. A total of 30 soil samples were collected in each area (SPN—forest restoration by seedling planting in rows and nucleation techniques between planting rows and SP—forest restoration by seedling planting in rows). The samples were transported to a shade house and evaluated for 6 months, where germinated individuals were counted and identified weekly. A floristic census of shrub/tree species was conducted to assess the diversity of standing vegetation. The results indicated that the soil seed banks of the two areas are floristically similar (predominance of pioneer, herbaceous, and native origin species). The two restoration techniques did not differ in their effects on the species composition of the soil seed bank, mainly due to the restoration age. However, when analyzing the standing vegetation, 38 species were recorded in SPN, while only 20 species were in SP. This result demonstrates that nucleation techniques contributed to the increase in species diversity in SPN. We conclude that combining seedling planting in rows with nucleation techniques (topsoil transposition, direct seeding, and artificial perches) can enhance species diversity in standing vegetation, improve forest functionality, and consequently enhance the potential for forest restoration.

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Managing Natural Resources Through Ecological Intensification in Oil-Rich Niger Delta

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2021

Sustainable Intensification for Agroecosystem Services and Management

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Testing species abundance distribution models in tropical forest successions: Implications for fine-scale passive restoration

Cited by 43 publications

References 60 publications

Brazilian Atlantic forest carbon stocks undergoing active restoration after bauxite mining exploration: an approach based on functional attributes

Brazilian Atlantic forest carbon stocks undergoing active restoration after bauxite mining exploration: an approach based on functional attributes

Complementing seedling planting with nucleation techniques increases forest restoration potential in areas around bauxite mining

Managing Natural Resources Through Ecological Intensification in Oil-Rich Niger Delta

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