"Secondary forest like this was once farmland," Nilson explained.
We will survey mixed bamboo and limestone forest, regenerating secondary forest, magnolia plantations and secondary forest, among others.
The area of secondary forest is increasing by more than 4percentt yearly, Dr. Wright estimates.
At the sides, perhaps a kilometre apart, the tangled secondary forest rose sharply to serrated peaks.
Secondary forest plays and important role in this environment.
Bruelheide, H. et al. Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest.
During secondary forest succession, simultaneous changes occur among stand structural attributes, soil properties, and species composition.
Those woodlands, too, grew over with scrub and then dense secondary forest.
Larger villages were usually located on remote hillside terraces often surrounded by secondary forest growth.
Much of the land, reclaimed from defunct banana plantations, has transformed into rampant secondary forest.
The island has much degraded secondary forest (locally called savoka) along the eastern and northern coasts.
