As countries advance in greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting for climate change mitigation,
consistent estimates of aboveground net biomass change (∆ AGB) are needed. Countries …

Tropical secondary forests sequester carbon up to 20 times faster than old-growth forests.
This rate does not capture spatial regrowth patterns due to environmental and disturbance …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

Tropical forests play a critical role in the global carbon (C) cycle, storing~ 45% of terrestrial C
and constituting the largest component of the terrestrial C sink. Despite their central …

Although increasing efforts are being made to restore tropical forests, little information is
available regarding the time scales required for carbon and plant biodiversity to recover to …

Maintaining an appropriate level of soil organic matter and biological cycling of nutrients is
crucial to the success of any soil management in the humid tropics. Cover crops, mulches …

The amount and spatial distribution of forest biomass in the Amazon basin is a major source
of uncertainty in estimating the flux of carbon released from land‐cover and land‐use …

Approximately half of the tropical biome is in some stage of recovery from past human
disturbance, most of which is in secondary forests growing on abandoned agricultural lands …

A better understanding of the reasons for variation in tropical rain forest (TRF) structure is
important for quantifying global above-ground biomass (AGBM). We used three data sets to …

Secondary forests are a major terrestrial carbon sink and reliable estimates of their carbon
stocks are pivotal for understanding the global carbon balance and initiatives to mitigate …