List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Perceptions of Tropical Forests and Natural Regeneration 1.1 Viewing Forests as a Cycle 1.2 The Resilience of Tropical Forests 1.3 Forest Regeneration, Succession, and Forest Degradation 1.4 The Geographic Extent of Deforestation and Forest Regeneration across the Tropics 1.5 The Tropical Forests of the Future Chapter 2 Ancient Human Legacies in Tropical Forest Landscapes 2.1 Overview 2.2 The Peopling of the Tropics 2.
3 Impacts of Early Hunter-Gatherer Societies 2.4 The Development of Agriculture 2.5 Holocene Climate Variability, Forest Change, and Agricultural Expansion 2.6 Conclusion Chapter 3 Landscape Transformation and Tropical Forest Regeneration through Prehistory 3.1 Overview 3.2 Earthworks and Landscape Transformations 3.3 Prehistoric Fires: Synergies between Natural and Human Causes 3.4 Ancient Soil Modifications 3.
5 The Scale of Prehistoric Human Impacts in the Neotropics 3.6 Paleoecological Reconstruction of Tropical Forest Regeneration 3.7 Conclusion Chapter 4 Tropical Forest Dynamics and Disturbance Regimes 4.1 Overview 4.2 Disturbance Regimes in Tropical Forest Regions 4.3 Gap Dynamics and the Forest Growth Cycle 4.4 Detection of Tropical Forest Disturbance 4.5 Are Old-Growth Tropical Forests Stable? 4.
6 Conclusion Chapter 5 Successional Pathways and Forest Transformations 5.1 Overview 5.2 Variability in Successional Pathways 5.3 Successional Stages and Species Classification 5.4 Forest Definitions and Concepts 5.5 Approaches to Studying Tropical Forest Succession 5.6 Conclusion Chapter 6 Tropical Forest Succession on Newly Created Substrates 6.1 Overview 6.
2 Biological Legacies and Local Resource Availability 6.3 Colonization and Succession on Landslides 6.4 Succession following Volcanic Eruptions 6.5 Riverbank Succession 6.6 Conclusion Chapter 7 Forest Regeneration following Agricultural Land Uses 7.1 Overview 7.2 Effects of Land Use and Biological Legacies on Propagule Availability and Modes of Regeneration 7.3 Effects of Land Use on Site Quality and Resource Availability 7.
4 Conclusion Chapter 8 Forest Regeneration following Hurricanes and Fires 8.1 Overview 8.2 Hurricane Damage and Regeneration 8.3 Tropical Forest Regeneration after Single and Recurrent Fires 8.4 Conclusion Chapter 9 Forest Regeneration following Selective Logging and Land-Use Synergisms 9.1 Overview 9.2 Harvesting Intensity, Forest Disturbance, and Postlogging Forest Regeneration 9.3 Effects of Logging on Animal Abundance and Diversity 9.
4 Consequences of Land-Use Synergisms for Forest Regeneration 9.5 Conclusion Chapter 10 Functional Traits and Community Assembly during Secondary Succession 10.1 Overview 10.2 Environmental Gradients during Succession 10.3 Successional Changes in Life-Form Composition 10.4 Functional Traits of Early and Late Successional Species 10.5 Environmental Filtering, Functional Diversity, and Community Assembly during Succession 10.6 A General Scheme for Community Assembly during Secondary Succession 10.
7 Conclusion Chapter 11 Recovery of Ecosystem Functions during Forest Regeneration 11.1 Overview 11.2 Loss of Nutrients and Carbon during Conversion of Forest to Agriculture 11.3 Accumulation of Carbon and Nutrients during Forest Regeneration 11.4 Nutrient Cycling and Nutrient Limitation 11.5 Hydrology and Water Balance 11.6 Conclusion Chapter 12 Animal Diversity and Plant-Animal Interactions in Regenerating Forests 12.1 Overview 12.
2 Animal Diversity in Regenerating Forests 12.3 Plant-Herbivore Interactions during Forest Regeneration 12.4 Seed Dispersal and Predation during Forest Regeneration 12.5 Pollination in Regenerating Forests 12.6 Conclusion Chapter 13 Tropical Reforestation Pathways 13.1 Overview 13.2 Reforestation Goals and Decisions 13.3 Reforestation through Management of Forest Fallows 13.
4 Ecological Forest Restoration in the Tropics 13.5 Recovery of Biodiversity during Reforestation 13.6 Recovery of Ecosystem Properties during Reforestation 13.7 Conclusion Chapter 14 Regenerating Forests in Tropical Landscapes 14.1 Overview 14.2 Land-Use Transitions and Forest Transitions 14.3 The Landscape Context of Forest Regeneration 14.4 Socioecological Drivers of Tropical Reforestation 14.
5 Enhancing Forest Regeneration and Human Livelihoods in the Landscape Matrix 14.6 Conclusion Chapter 15 Synthesis: The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation 15.1 The Power of Forest Regeneration 15.2 Tropical Forest Change and Resilience 15.3 The Current and Future Value of Regenerating Tropical Forests 15.4 New Approaches to Promoting Forest Regeneration References Index.