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Looks what we have found in our two year old secondary forest in Mexico! We are not only facilitating tree regeneration at our research sites, but also creating a habitat for animals🦜

Our driest PANTROP site is the dry forest in Mexico. Look at the tremendous difference in vegetation during the dry and wet season! During the dry season the non-woody vegetation dries out and dies, while in the wet season (June-Oct) everything comes alive again!

As biologists we are always curious what flies, flaps, slides and walks around us in the forest. One night we caught two nectarivorous bats with @fernandoguals! Watch the video and look at those tongues (and super cute noses).

Young #secondary #forests show strong floristic variation across the #Neotropics, with 14 regions differing in #species composition. This is surprising, as it was thought they would be dominated by a few widespread pioneer species.Jakovac 2ndFOR in ScAdv tinyurl.com/ys9f98ah

There are also many master students involved in the PANTROP project! Check out our webpage for an overview pantrop-eu.com/msc-students/ Are you currently doing your MSc studies Wageningen U&R and are you looking for an internship or thesis subject? Contact us!

Our PhD student Tomonari Matsuo wrote a blog titled "The important lesson during my fieldwork". It's about finding a balance between managing large teams in the Ghanaian forest and measuring trees yourself. Check it out here! pantrop-eu.com/blog/

Did you ever consider the effect of past land-use for the recovery of forests? Catarina Jakovac et al reviewed the literature and found that land-use history plays a central role in driving successional pathways within human-modified landscapes doi.org/10.1111/brv.12…

The PANTROP team @PoorterLourens @hordijk_iris has the opportunity again to work in Australia! Thanks to Dr Susan Laurance we found all the already established plots and many new plots to measure. Living the Australian PANTROP dream✨

Look at all these different soil colours and textures! They are all taken in the Atherton tablelands area in Australia, but show very different properties and characteristics.

While looking for field sites for our tropical forest successional study PANTROP, a land owner showed me this little cutey & I was convinced it fitted our selection criteria 😀

Wondering what happened in the next few minutes? Well, we had to leave the plot and walk fast to the car to not get too wet. But the pre-storm sky was beautiful! Picture credits: Reinoud van Giersbergen

Happy new year everybody! Let there be many regrowing forests in 2023 ✨ Picture by Kimson Doan