First meeting: 16.-20.12.2019

PIs:
Lourens Poorter
Nadja Rüger
Michiel van Breugel

iDiv members:
Nadja Rüger
Stephan Kambach

Project summary:
Tropical secondary forests cover 25% of tropical forest landscapes and play an increasingly important role in delivering ecosystem services, such as biodiversity conservation or carbon storage. We will combine conceptual synthesis, data-driven pantropical analysis, and mech-anistic modeling to elucidate demographic and environmental drivers of tropical forest succession at local to continental scales. The results allow to make evidence-based decisions on how to manage secondary succession as the natural engine of forest restoration, and to de-sign effective forest restoration strategies.

Participants:
Lucy Amissah (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana); Frans Bongers (Wageningen University & Research); Robin Chazdon (University of Connecticut (USA), University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia)); Dylan Craven (Universidad Mayor Santiago de Chile); Caroline Farrior (University of Texas at Austin);  Bruno Herault (Cirad); Catarina Jakovac (Wageningen University); Stephan Kambach (iDiv); Jorge Meave del Castillo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México); Rodrigo Muñoz Aviles (Wageningen University & Research); Natalia Norden (Instituto Alexander von Humboldt Bogotá); Lourens Poorter (Wageningen University & Research); Nadja Rüger (iDiv); Michiel van Breugel (Yale-NUS College Singapore); Masha van der Sande (Wageningen University and Research)

Second meeting: 29.11-3.12.2021

In person participants:
Frans Bongers (Wageningen University and Research); Wirong Chanthorn (Kasetsart University); Robin Chazdon (University of the Sunshine Coast); Caroline Farrior (University of Texas at Austin); Rodrigo Muñoz Aviles (Wageningen University & Research); Lourens Poorter (Wageningen University & Research (WUR)); Nadja Rüger (iDiv); Markus Schorn (iDiv); Michiel van breugel (Yale NUS College); Coen van den Brand (Wageningen University and Research)

Remote participants:
Lucy Amissah (CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana); Dylan Craven (Universidad Mayor); Bruno Herault (CIRAD); Catarina Jakovac (Federal University of Santa Catarina); Jorge A. Meave (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México); Natalia    Norden (Instituto Alexander von Humboldt)

Third meeting: 21.-25.11.2022

In-person Participants:
Frans Bongers (Wageningen University); Wirong Chanthorn (Kasetsart University); Dylan Craven (Universidad Mayor, Chile); Daisy Dent (Max Planck Institute for Animal Behaviour); Edwin Lebrija Trejos (University of Haifa); Miguel Martinez-Ramos (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México); Jorge Meave (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México); Natalia Norden (Instituto Alexander von Humboldt, Colombia); Lourens Poorter (Wageningen University); Nadja Rüger (iDiv / UL); Markus Schorn (iDiv / UL); Michiel van Breugel (NUS Singapore); Masha van der Sande (Wageningen University)

Remote participants
Hao Ran Lai (University of Canterbury, New Zealand); Lucy Amissah (CSIR-Forestry Research Institute of Ghana)

Meeting report