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Restoration and Conservation of Tropical Degraded Forest
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Restoration and Conservation of Tropical Degraded Forest

A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Biogeography and Macroecology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 December 2022) | Viewed by 2199

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Huazheng Lu

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CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China
Interests: restoration ecology; clonal plant ecology; forest canopy biology
Dr. Liang Song

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CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun 666303, China
Interests: restoration ecology; biodiversity; global change

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Tropical regions host a large variety of flora, fauna, and microbiota, representing the “hotspot” of biodiversity and ecosystem functions around the biosphere. However, the great threat of forest devastation is posed to tropical and subtropical forest throughout the world, and 2.3 million km2 of forest have been lost due to disturbance from 2001 to 2012 with 32% of forest loss occurring in tropical rainforest ecozones, where tropical dry broadleaved and coniferous forests were under very great pressure from human impacts, especially in unprotected areas. Therefore, as one of the most extraordinary means to many ends under biosphere degradation and hothouse earth pathway risk, ecological restoration and biodiversity conservation for tropical forest ecosystems is highly significant and urgently needed today.

In this Special Issue, we would like to showcase the latest studies on community reassembly and ecology restoration of degraded tropical and subtropical forest ecosystems. Additionally, we would like to highlight the conservation issues of threatened species under a plethora of scenarios (from habitat degradation to forest fragmentation from plantation, forestation to jungle, etc.). Now the Special Issue is calling for papers. You are invited to contribute to this Special Issue with your latest and most updated research. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Dr. Huazheng Lu
Dr. Liang Song
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  •  tropics and subtropics
  •  rainforest
  •  forest devastation
  •  habitat degradation
  •  disturbance
  •  ecological restoration
  •  biodiversity conservation
  •  threatened species

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Shading Gradients Drive Differential Responses of Leaf Traits in an Early Community Germinated by Forest Topsoil
by Fajun Chen, Gaojuan Zhao, Youxin Shen, Zhenjiang Li, Beilin Tan, Hong Zhu, Qinghe Wang and Xun Fu
Diversity 2022, 14(8), 600; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/d14080600 - 28 Jul 2022
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Seedling performance in the early stage is crucial to natural forest restoration, and functional traits have been widely employed in exploring plant adaptation under field conditions. However, the responses and variabilities of leaf traits have not been clearly defined at the light gradients [...] Read more.
Seedling performance in the early stage is crucial to natural forest restoration, and functional traits have been widely employed in exploring plant adaptation under field conditions. However, the responses and variabilities of leaf traits have not been clearly defined at the light gradients that are used in restoration practices. We evaluated the variation in leaf treats in species and community levels in a controlled field plot with shading treatments. We found that the variation characteristics differed across different species and trait types along shading gradients. Individuals of most species had a larger leaf area (LA) and specific leaf area (SLA) in the shaded habitats, while only a few tree species showed significant responses in their leaf shape and chlorophyll concentration. Although LA and SLA showed similar directions and trends of changes in the trait mean, four response models were observed based on the light points corresponding to initial responses and following trends. The extent of within-species trait variation for each treatment was similar at the community level due to diverse changes in the direction and degrees of variation in co-occurring species. Intraspecific variation was limited within each shading treatment, while it noticeably contributed to the local adaptation in the entire heterogeneous restoration community. Our findings indicate that species with different trait combinations will have different responses to light gradients, and that the mean and degree of variation in leaf traits will also lead to distinctive strategies being created to match the different shading conditions. Vegetation restoration should consider the adaptive traits and their response diversity when selecting species and for habitat management with specific trait–environment interactions. Full article
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