For decades, conservation initiatives and research in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old growth forests because scientists believed that these "virgin" ecosystems included high levels of biodiversity. With the second growth, Robin reveals to.

They assert that these assumptions were largely false, highlighting the previously overlooked surface of the old growth forests: second growth. Even as human activities lead to widespread fragmentation and deforestation, tropical forests demonstrate a great potential for natural and human regeneration. Although these affected landscapes can take centuries to restore old growth characteristics, Chazdon shows here that re-growth forests - or second growth - are vital bio-repositories of biodiversity and environmental services. What's more, they have always been.

With chapters on the roles these forests play in carbon and nutrient cycling, biodiversity sustainability, the provision of wood and non-wood products, and integrated agriculture, Second Growth not only provides a comprehensive and comprehensive view of success and rehabilitation, but also the need to preserve and renew tropical forests , In an attempt to inspire a new era of local and global supervision.