Increasing Turnover Through Time in Tropical Forests

Tree turnover rates were assessed at 40 tropical forest sites. Averaged across inventoried forests, turnover, as measured by tree mortality and recruitment, has increased since the 1950s, with an apparent pantropical acceleration since 1980. Among 22 mature forest sites with two or more inventory periods, forest turnover also increased. The trend in forest dynamics may have profound effects on biological diversity.

• Publication year

  1994

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1994-02-18

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/science.263.5149.954PMID 17758638
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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