There has been a debate about the effectiveness of passive restoration for recovering tropical forests, but few studies quantify the success of passive restoration. The aim of this study was to better understand tropical forest succession under a passive restoration scenario. We compared floristic and functional attributes of seedlings in a passively restored and an old‐growth forest, and assessed the effect of restoration age and distance from the old‐growth forest on seedling attributes.

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乌干达热带潮湿森林被动恢复过程中幼苗群落属性的恢复

关于被动恢复对恢复热带森林的有效性的争论一直存在，但是很少有研究量化被动恢复的成功。这项研究的目的是更好地了解被动恢复情景下的热带森林演替。我们比较了被动恢复和老龄林中幼苗的植物区系和功能属性，并评估了恢复年龄和离老龄林的距离对幼苗属性的影响。