Mongabay: Trees left standing after deforestation have a discernible impact on the composition of local biodiversity in secondary growth forests, according to a new study published in PLOS ONE. Researchers working on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica discovered that remnant trees could affect species composition of regenerated forests up to 20 years after being logged.
When land that was once forest is abandoned after being cleared for timber or agricultural purposes, what emerges is known as a second-growth...