Plant functional group responses in an African tropical forest recovering from disturbance

摘要: Background: Newly protected, tropical forests recovering from logging and clearance are increasingly important targets for conservation. Recovery is typically evaluated or monitored by using a few easily identified species groups, but this may not be sufficient as unmonitored groups of equivalent ecological importance unlikely to respond in similar manner due physiological dispersal differences.Aims: We compared four plants: large trees, shrubs saplings, herbs ferns forest disturbance. quantified the relative disturbance history local environmental conditions determining richness community composition these assessed whether could act surrogate indicators one another.Methods: Vegetation was surveyed on gradient intensity recovery time (20–60 years) Mabira Forest, Uganda. looked correlations between across sites us...