Restoring tropical moist forest in northwestern Costa Rica
by Alan R.P. Journet, Kathleen D. Conway
Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (IER), Vol. 8, No. 2, 2006

Abstract: Central American tropical moist forest has suffered extensive removal to provide timber and/or agricultural products. As agricultural land is abandoned, there has been a growing interest in promoting recovery to a forest composition resembling that which was present previously. On an abandoned pasture at Lodge Los Inocentes, a private wildlife reserve and eco-tourist hotel in northwestern Costa Rica, we planted figs (Ficus spp.) of local origin which we hypothesize will serve as recruitment foci enhancing the return of tropical moist forest species. We report on the first three years of Phase I: establishing fig seedlings in the abandoned pasture.

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