2017
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01984
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Tree Age Distributions Reveal Large-Scale Disturbance-Recovery Cycles in Three Tropical Forests

Abstract: Over the past few decades there has been a growing realization that a large share of apparently ‘virgin’ or ‘old-growth’ tropical forests carries a legacy of past natural or anthropogenic disturbances that have a substantial effect on present-day forest composition, structure and dynamics. Yet, direct evidence of such disturbances is scarce and comparisons of disturbance dynamics across regions even more so. Here we present a tree-ring based reconstruction of disturbance histories from three tropical forest si… Show more

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“…Consequently, some amount of uncertainty in the present results obviously is related to the reliability of the used models. However, qualitatively, the appearance of slow recruitment, in accordance with Equation (5), appears to agree with quite a few observations [6,23,[39][40][41]. Also, observations indicating a higher rate of recruitment exist [42][43][44].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 86%
“…Consequently, some amount of uncertainty in the present results obviously is related to the reliability of the used models. However, qualitatively, the appearance of slow recruitment, in accordance with Equation (5), appears to agree with quite a few observations [6,23,[39][40][41]. Also, observations indicating a higher rate of recruitment exist [42][43][44].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 86%
“…Brienen and Zuidema 2006;De Ridder et al 2013;Schöngart 2008), study forest dynamics (e.g. Brienen et al 2010;Vlam et al 2017) and potentially to monitor forest responses to climate change (e.g. van der Sleen et al 2015;Zuidema et al 2012, but also see Brienen et al 2016a).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This variation in plant communities was attributed to the global increase in tree growth in response to the increased anthropogenic CO 2 atmospheric concentration in the last decades (Baker et al 2014, Levis et al 2017). A growing perception, however, has been that variations within present-day tropical forests were imprinted by long-term (i.e., secular to millennial scale) environmental changes (Patton et al 2000, Vlam et al 2017, and references contained therein). For instance, African rainforests showed large-scale changes even with small fluctuations in intensity or duration of the dry season (Malhi et al 2013).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A recent publication has also related large-scale changes in the Amazonian rainforest to seasonal variations (Zemp et al 2017). A growing perception, however, has been that variations within present-day tropical forests were imprinted by long-term (i.e., secular to millennial scale) environmental changes (Patton et al 2000, Vlam et al 2017, and references contained therein). Thus, identifying the timing and mode of forest establishment and development is critical to examine the origin of the forest's present-day diversity and understand its functionality.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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