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Second Growth (Paperback)
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Second Growth (Paperback)
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For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical
forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests
because scientists believed that these "pristine" ecosystems housed
superior levels of biodiversity. With Second Growth, Robin L.
Chazdon reveals those assumptions to be largely false, bringing to
the fore the previously overlooked counterpart to old-growth
forest: second growth. Even as human activities result in extensive
fragmentation and deforestation, tropical forests demonstrate a
great capacity for natural and human-aided regeneration. Although
these damaged landscapes can take centuries to regain the
characteristics of old growth, Chazdon shows here that
regenerating-or second-growth-forests are vital, dynamic reservoirs
of biodiversity and enviornmental services. What is more, they
always have been. With chapters on the roles these forests play in
carbon and nutrient cycling, sustaining biodiversity, providing
timber and non-timber products, and integrated agriculture, Second
Growth not only offers a thorough and wide-ranging overview of
successional and restoration pathways, but also underscores the
need to conserve, and further study, regenerating tropical forests
in an attempt to inspire a new age of local and global stewardship.
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