costa rica tested three ways to restore tropical forests; 20 years later, planted plots held 6.5 times more biomass than forests left to recover naturally |
A forest can return without being planted, but the pace and character of that recovery can depend heavily on what happens at the beginning. In southern Costa Rica, researchers have been following three different restoration approaches for about two decades, allowing them to compare how much woody biomass accumulated under each one. Some plots were…
