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Evidence for arrested succession within a tropical forest fragment in Singapore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2011

Gregory R. Goldsmith ,
Liza S. Comita  and
Siew Chin Chua
Gregory R. Goldsmith*
Affiliation:
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Liza S. Comita
Affiliation:
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State St., Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancón, Republic of Panamá
Siew Chin Chua
Affiliation:
Center for Tropical Forest Science – Arnold Arboretum, Asia Programme/Natural Sciences and Science Education, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616, Singapore
*
1Corresponding author. Email: grgoldsmith@berkeley.edu
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Secondary forests occupy a growing portion of the tropical landscape mosaic due to regeneration on abandoned pastures and other disturbed sites (Asner et al. 2009). Tropical secondary forests and degraded old-growth forests now account for more than half of the world's tropical forests (Chazdon 2003), and provide critical ecosystem services (Brown & Lugo 1990, Guariguata & Ostertag 2001).

Keywords

Bukit Timahforest dynamics plotforest fragmentationleaf littersecondary forestseedling regeneration

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Journal of Tropical Ecology , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , May 2011 , pp. 323 - 326
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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