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Differing Agents of Physical Damage to Artificial Seedlings in Remnant and Restored Forests

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT We tested the importance of physical damage to seedlings as a bottleneck to natural regeneration in restored tropical forests using an artificial seedling experiment. After one year, more artificial seedlings had been damaged in restored forests (17.6% ± 2.6% SE) compared to remnant forests (12.7% ± 1.1% SE), primarily due to greater frequency of woody debris falling from planted trees. Vertebrate damage was more common in remnant forests.

Source: Biotropica

DOI: 10.1111/btp.13421

Authors: Gerald J. Quirós Cedeño, Francis H. Joyce, María Auxiliadora Zúñiga Amador, Karen D. Holl

Institutions: Distance State University, University of California, Santa Cruz

Language: English

Topic: Seedling growth and survival studies

Subfield: Nature and Landscape Conservation

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental Biology