Delineation of secondary succession mechanisms for tropical dry forests using LiDAR

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2217-2231

  Castillo Núñez, Mauricio ^a   Sánchez Azofeifa, G Arturo ^a   Croitoru, Arie ^a   Rivard, Benoit ^a   Calvo Alvarado, Julio ^b   Dubayah, Ralph O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy digital model; LIDAR; Secondary forests; Tropical dry forests

Indexed keywords

CANOPY HEIGHTS; COSTA RICA; DIGITAL MODEL; FOREST PATCHES; FOREST REGENERATION; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; LIDAR DATA; LIDAR SYSTEMS; NATIONAL PARKS; OLD GROWTH; RIPLEY'S K; SECONDARY FORESTS; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION; STUDY SITES; TROPICAL DRY FOREST; WAVE FORMS;

AGRICULTURE; DOMES; OPTICAL RADAR; PARKS; TROPICS;

REFORESTATION;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DISPERSAL; DISTURBANCE; DRY FOREST; FRAGMENTATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LIDAR; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PASTURE; REGENERATION; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SLOPE; THEORETICAL STUDY; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VERTEBRATE;

AGRICULTURE; FORESTS; RADAR; REFORESTATION; TROPICS;

COSTA RICA; GUANACASTE; SANTA ROSA NATIONAL PARK;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79958747476     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.04.020     Document Type: Article

References (89)

1. Aide T.M., Zimmerman J.K., Rosario M., Marcano H. Forest recovery in abandoned cattle pastures along an elevational gradient in northeastern Puerto Rico. Biotropica 1996, 28:537-548.
2. Allen W. Green Phoenix: Restoring the tropical forests of Guanacaste 2001, Oxford, Costa Rica.
3. Anderson J., Martin M.E., Smith M.L., Dubayah R.O., Hofton M.A., Hyde P., et al. The use of waveform lidar to measure northern temperate mixed conifer and deciduous forest structure in New Hampshire. Remote Sensing of Environment 2006, 105:248-261.
4. Arroyo-Mora J.P., Sanchez-Azofeifa G.A., Kalacska M.E.R., Rivard B., Calvo-Alvarado J.C., Janzen D.H. Secondary forest detection in a neotropical dry forest landscape using Landsat 7 ETM+ and IKONOS imagery. Biotropica 2005, 37:497-507.
5. Arroyo-Rodriguez V., Mandujano S. The importance of tropical rain forest fragments to the conservation of plant species diversity in Los Tuxtlas, Mexico. Biodiversity and Conservation 2006, 15:4159-4179.
6. Ashton M.S., Gunatilleke C.V.S., Singhakumara B.M.P., Gunatilleke I. Restoration pathways for rain forest in southwest Sri Lanka: A review of concepts and models. Forest Ecology and Management 2001, 154:409-430.
7. Asner G.P., Palace M., Keller M., Pereira R., Silva J.N.M., Zweede J.C. Estimating canopy structure in an Amazon Forest from laser range finder and IKONOS satellite observations. Biotropica 2002, 34:483-492.
8. Bailey T.C., Gatrell A.C. Interactive spatial data analysis 1998, Addison-Wesley longman, Essex (GB).
9. Baltsavias E.P. Airborne laser scanning: Basic relations and formulas. Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 1999, 54:199-214.
10. Baltsavias E.P. Airborne laser scanning: Existing systems and firms and other resources. Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 1999, 54:164-198.
11. Blair J.B., Rabine D.L., Hofton M.A. The Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor: A medium-altitude, digitisation-only, airborne laser altimeter for mapping vegetation and topography. Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 1999, 54:115-122.
12. Bounfour A., Lambin E.F. How valuable is remotely sensed information? The case of tropical deforestation modelling. Space Policy 1999, 15:149-158.
13. Boyd D.S., Foody G.M., Curran P.J., Lucas R.M., Honzak M. An assessment of radiance in Landsat TM middle and thermal infrared wavebands for the detection of tropical forest regeneration. International Journal of Remote Sensing 1996, 17:249-261.
14. Brandtberg T. Classifying individual tree species under leaf-off and leaf-on conditions using airborne lidar. Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2007, 61:325-340.
15. Browder J.O., Wynne R.H., Pedlowski M.A. Agroforestry diffusion and secondary forest regeneration in the Brazilian Amazon: Further findings from the Rondonia Agroforestry Pilot Project (1992-2002). Agroforestry Systems 2005, 65:99-111.
16. Brown S., Lugo A.E. Tropical secondary forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 1990, 6:1-32.
17. Burgos A., Maass J.M. Vegetation change associated with land-use in tropical dry forest areas of Western Mexico. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment 2004, 104:475-481.
18. Burnham R.J. Stand characteristics and leaf litter composition of a dry forest hectare in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica. Biotropica 1997, 29:384-395.
19. Burrough P.A., McDonnell R. Principles of geographical information systems 1998, Oxford University Press, Oxford; New York.
20. Castro-Esau K.L., Sanchez-Azofeifa G.A., Rivard B. Monitoring secondary tropical forests using space-borne data: implications for Central America. International Journal of Remote Sensing 2003, 24:1853-1894.
21. Chazdon R.L., Letcher S.G., van Breugel M., Martinez-Ramos M., Bongers F., Finegan B. Rates of change in tree communities of secondary Neotropical forests following major disturbances. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 2007, 362:273-289.
22. Clark M.L., Clark D.B., Roberts D.A. Small-footprint lidar estimation of subcanopy elevation and tree height in a tropical rain forest landscape. Remote Sensing of Environment 2004, 91(1):68-89.
23. Clark C.J., Poulsen J.R., Bolker B.M., Connor E.F., Parker V.T. Comparative seed shadows of bird-, monkey-, and wind-dispersed trees. Ecology 2005, 86:2684-2694.
24. Colon S.M., Lugo A.E. Recovery of a subtropical dry forest after abandonment of different land uses. Biotropica 2006, 38:354-364.
25. Couteron P., Pelissier R., Nicolini E.A., Dominique P. Predicting tropical forest stand structure parameters from Fourier transform of very high-resolution remotely sensed canopy images. Journal of Applied Ecology 2005, 42:1121-1128.
26. Dosch J.J., Peterson C.J., Haines B.L. Seed rain during initial colonization of abandoned pastures in the premontane wet forest zone of southern Costa Rica. Journal of Tropical Ecology 2007, 23:151-159.
27. Drake J.B., Dubayah R.O., Clark D.B., Knox R.G., Blair J.B., Hofton M.A., et al. Estimation of tropical forest structural characteristics using large-footprint lidar. Remote Sensing of Environment 2002, 79:305-319.
28. Drake J.B., Knox R.G., Dubayah R.O., Clark D.B., Condit R., Blair J.B., et al. Above-ground biomass estimation in closed canopy Neotropical forests using lidar remote sensing: Factors affecting the generality of relationships. Global Ecology and Biogeography 2003, 12:147-159.
29. Feldpausch T.R., Rondon M.A., Fernandes E.C.M., Riha S.J., Wandelli E. Carbon and nutrient accumulation in secondary forests regenerating on pastures in central Amazonia. Ecological Applications 2004, 14:S164-S176.
30. Foody G.M., Curran P.J. Estimation of Tropical Forest extent and regenerative stage using remotely-sensed data. Journal of Biogeography 1994, 21:223-244.
31. Franco A.C., Nobel P.S. Effect of nurse plants on the microhabitat and growth of cacti. Journal of Ecology 1989, 77:870-886.
32. Gauriguata M.R., Ostertag R. Neotropical secondary forest succession: Changes in structural and functional characteristics. Forest Ecology and Management 2001, 148:185-206.
33. Gaveau D.L.A., Hill R.A. Quantifying canopy height underestimation by laser pulse penetration in small-footprint airborne laser scanning data. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 2003, 29:650-657.
34. Gerhardt K. Tree seedling development in tropical dry forest in Costa Rica. Journal of Vegetation Science 1993, 4:95-102.
35. Getis A., Boots B.N. Models of spatial processes: An approach to the study of point, line, and area patterns 1978, Cambridge University Press, New York, Cambridge [Eng.].
36. Getis A., Franklin J. Second-order neighborhood analysis of mapped point patterns. Ecology 1987, 68:473-477.
37. Gillespie T.W., Brock J., Wright C.W. Prospects for quantifying structure, floristic composition and species richness of tropical forests. International Journal of Remote Sensing 2004, 25:707-715.
38. Gonzalez R.C., Woods R.E. Digital image processing 2002, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J. 2nd edn.
39. Guevara S., Laborde J., Sanchez-Rios G. Rain forest regeneration beneath the canopy of fig trees isolated in pastures of Los Tuxtlas, Mexico. Biotropica 2004, 36:99-108.
40. Haase P. Spatial pattern-analysis in ecology based in Ripley K-function and methods of edge correction. Journal of Vegetation Science 1995, 6:575-582.
41. Haase P., Pugnaire F.I., Clark S.C., Incoll L.D. Spatial patterns in a two-tiered semi-arid shrubland in southeastern Spain. Journal of Vegetation Science 1996, 7:527-534.
42. Hofton M.A., Rocchio L.E., Blair J.B., Dubayah R. Validation of vegetation canopy Lidar sub-canopy topography measurements for a dense tropical forest. Journal of Geodynamics 2002, 34(3-4):491-502.
43. Hooper E.R., Legendre P., Condit R. Factors affecting community composition of forest regeneration in deforested, abandoned land in Panama. Ecology 2004, 85:3313-3326.
44. Janzen D.H. Management of habitat fragments in a tropical dry forest-growth. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 1988, 75:105-116.
45. Janzen D.H., Tinker Foundation, Fundación de Parques Nacionales (Costa Rica), Universidad Estatal a Distancia (Costa Rica), Programa de Educación Ambiental Guanacaste National Park: Tropical ecological and cultural restoration 1986, Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia, San José.
46. Jensen J.R. Remote sensing of the environment: An earth resource perspective 2007, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 2nd edn.
47. Kalacska M., Sanchez-Azofeifa G.A., Calvo-Alvarado J.C., Quesada M., Rivard B., Janzen D.H. Species composition, similarity and diversity in three successional stages of a seasonally dry tropical forest. Forest Ecology and Management 2004, 200:227-247.
48. Kalacska M., Sánchez-Azofeifa G.A., Quesada M., Calvo J. Comparison of Leaf Area Index of three tropical dry forests environments. Biotropica 2005, 37(4):486-497.
49. Kalacska M., Sanchez-Azofeifa G.A., Rivard B., Calvo-Alvarado J.C., Journet A.R.P., Arroyo-Mora J.P., et al. Leaf area index measurements in a tropical moist forest: A case study from Costa Rica. Remote Sensing of Environment 2004, 91:134-152.
50. Khurana E., Singh J.S. Ecology of seed and seedling growth for conservation and restoration of tropical dry forest: A review. Environmental Conservation 2001, 28:39-52.
51. Lawrence D., Foster D. Changes in forest biomass, litter dynamics and soils following shifting cultivation in southern Mexico: An overview. Interciencia 2002, 27:400-+.
52. Lefsky M.A., Cohen W.B., Acker S.A., Parker G.G., Spies T.A., Harding D. Lidar remote sensing of the canopy structure and biophysical properties of Douglas-fir western hemlock forests. Remote Sensing of Environment 1999, 70:339-361.
53. Lefsky M.A., Harding D.J., Keller M., Cohen W.B., Carabajal C.C., Espirito-Santo F.D., et al. Estimates of forest canopy height and aboveground biomass using ICESat. Geophysical Research Letters 2005, 32:4.
54. Levine, N. (2007). CrimeStat: A spatial statistics program for the analysis of crime incident locations (v3.1). N Levine & Associates, Houston, TX, and the National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC.
55. Lillesand T.M., Kiefer R.W., Chipman J.W. Remote sensing and image interpretation 2004, Wiley, New York. 5th edn.
56. Lim K., Treitz P., Wulder M., St-Onge B., Flood M. LiDAR remote sensing of forest structure. Progress in Physical Geography 2003, 27:88-106.
57. Longley P., Batty M. Spatial analysis: Modelling in a GIS environment. GeoInformation International 1996, J. Wiley, Cambridge, New York.
58. Lu D., Moran E., Mausel P. Linking Amazonian secondary succession forest growth to soil properties. Land Degradation & Development 2002, 13:331-343.
59. Madeira B.G., Espirito-Santo M.M., Neto S.D., Nunes Y.R.F., Sánchez-Azofeifa G.A., Fernandes G.W., et al. Changes in tree and liana communities along a successional gradient in tropical dry forests in south-eastern Brazil. Plant Ecology 2009, 201(1):291-304.
60. Martinez-Garza C., Gonzalez-Montagut R. Seed rain from forest fragments into tropical pastures in Los Tuxtlas, Mexico. Plant Ecology 1999, 145:255-265.
61. Mathworks (2011). Mathlab and Simulink computer software. The MathWorks Inc. Natick, MA. U.S.A.
62. Meléndez Chaverri C. Viajeros por Guanacaste microform: [relatos] 1974, Juventud y Deportes, Departamento de Publicaciones, San José, Costa Rica, Ministerio de Cultura.
63. Muller-Landau H.C., Wright S.J., Calderon O., Condit R., Hubbell S.P. Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest. Journal of Ecology 2008, 96:653-667.
64. Murray K.G. Avian seed dispersal of 3 neotropical gap-dependent plants. Ecological Monographs 1988, 58:271-298.
65. Myster R.W. Post-agricultural invasion, establishment, and growth of neotropical trees. Botanical Review 2004, 70:381-402.
66. Neeff T., Lucas R.M., dos Santos J.R., Brondizio E.S., Freitas C.C. Area and age of secondary forests in Brazilian Amazonia 1978-2002: An empirical estimate. Ecosystems 2006, 9:609-623.
67. Otterstrom S.M., Schwartz M.W., Velazquez-Rocha I. Responses to fire in selected tropical dry forest trees. Biotropica 2006, 38:592-598.
68. Patenaude G., Hill R.A., Milne R., Gaveau D.L.A., Briggs B.B.J., Dawson T.P. Quantifying forest above ground carbon content using LiDAR remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment 2004, 93:368-380.
69. Perrow M.R., Davy A.J. Handbook of ecological restoration 2002, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK; New York.
70. Quesada M., Sánchez-Azofeifa G.A., Alvares M., Avila-Cavadilla L.D., Calvo-Alvarado J.C., Castillo A., et al. Succession and management of tropical dry forests in the Americas: Review and new perspectives. Forest Ecology and Management 2009, 258(6):1014-1024.
71. Restom T.G., Nepstad D.C. Contribution of vines to the evapotranspiration of a secondary forest in eastern Amazonia. Plant and Soil 2001, 236:155-163.
72. Reulke R., Haala N. Tree species recognition with fuzzy texture parameters 2004, Combinatorial Image Analysis, Proceedings(eds), pp. 607-620.
73. Ripley B.D. 2nd Order analysis of stationary point processes. Journal of Applied Probability 1976, 13:255-266.
74. Ripley B.D. Test of randomness for spatial point patterns. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series - B-Methodological 1979, 41(3):368-374.
75. Ripley B.D. Spatial Statistics 1981, John Wiley Sons, New York, 335 pp.
76. Schedlbauer J.L., Kavanagh K.L. Soil carbon dynamics in a chronosequence of secondary forests in northeastern Costa Rica. Forest Ecology and Management 2008, 255:1326-1335.
77. Schlawin J., Zahawi R.A. 'Nucleating' succession in recovering neotropical wet forests: The legacy of remnant trees. Journal of Vegetation Science 2008, 19:485U7.
78. Silver W.L., Kueppers L.M., Lugo A.E., Ostertag R., Matzek V. Carbon sequestration and plant community dynamics following reforestation of tropical pasture. Ecological Applications 2004, 14:1115-1127.
79. Silver W.L., Ostertag R., Lugo A.E. The potential for carbon sequestration through reforestation of abandoned tropical agricultural and pasture lands. Restoration Ecology 2000, 8:394-407.
80. Steininger M.K. Tropical secondary forest regrowth in the Amazon: Age, area and change estimation with Thematic Mapper data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 1996, 17:9-27.
81. Steininger M.K. Satellite estimation of tropical secondary forest above-ground biomass: Data from Brazil and Bolivia. International Journal of Remote Sensing 2000, 21:1139-1157.
82. Steininger M.K. Net carbon fluxes from forest clearance and regrowth in the Amazon. Ecological Applications 2004, 14:S313-S322.
83. Traveset A. Pre-dispersal seed predation in Central-American Acacia farnesiana-factors affecting the abundance of cooccurring bruchid beetles. Oecologia 1991, 87:570-576.
84. Tschakert P., Coomes O.T., Potvin C. Indigenous livelihoods, slash-and-burn agriculture, and carbon stocks in Eastern Panama. Ecological Economics 2007, 60:807-820.
85. Vieira D.L.M., Scariot A. Principles of natural regeneration of tropical dry forests for restoration. Restoration Ecology 2006, 14:11-20.
86. Wagner S., Walder K., Ribbens E., Zeibig A. Directionality in fruit dispersal models for anemochorous forest trees. Ecological Modelling 2004, 179:487-498.
87. Weishampel J.F., Blair J.B., Knox R.G., Dubayah R., Clark D.B. Volumer lidar return patterns from an old-growth tropical rainforest canopy. International Journal of Remote Sensing 2000, 21(2):409-415.
88. Yang J.C., Huang J.H., Pan Q.M., Tang J.W., Han X.G. Long-term impacts of land-use change on dynamics of tropical soil carbon and nitrogen pools. Journal of Environmental Sciences (China) 2004, 16:256-261.
89. Zahwai R.A., Augspurger C.K. Tropical forest restoration: Tree islands as recruitment foci in degraded lands of Honduras. Ecological Applications 2006, 16:464-478.