Claim · model-written summary
Remnant tree number strongly shaped forest recovery rates.
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Verbatim
e0“Recovery rates are strongly shaped by both the number of remnant trees (residuals of the former old-growth forest) and the previous crop cultivated before abandonment”
e1“time needed to recover 50% of an old-growth forest biomass”
t0“forested”
Title
Drivers of biomass recovery in a secondary forested landscape of West Africa
Anny Estelle N'Guessan; Justin Kassi N'dja; Olivier N. Yao; et al. Forest Ecology and Management 2018. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2018.11.021
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- Observation Forest biomass recovery accelerated to 37 years and then decelerated, reaching 4.23 Mg·ha −1 ·yr −1 at 37 years.
- Observation The model predicted 10% old-growth biomass recovery 17 years after abandonment.
- Observation The model predicted 25% old-growth biomass recovery 30 years after abandonment.
- Observation The model predicted 50% old-growth biomass recovery 51 years after abandonment.
- Association The previously cultivated crop strongly shaped forest recovery rates.
- Observation Former Yam fields required 38 years to recover half of old-growth forest biomass.
- Observation Former rice fields required 86 years to recover half of old-growth forest biomass.
- Observation West African forest biomass recovers more slowly than Neotropical forest biomass.