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Ecologist boosts tropical forest restoration
While
environmentalists lobby for conservation of the world's threatened tropical forests,
some scientists are trying to find ways to restore rain forests that have been cleared
and abandoned. Karen Holl, assistant professor of environmental studies at UCSC,
is one of the few ecologists who has completed multifaceted studies of tropical forest
restoration. In the latest issue of Restoration Ecology, Holl reviews the
results of her own work on abandoned pasture in Costa Rica and warns that the challenges
of habitat restoration demand far greater site-specific knowledge than is currently
available. (More)
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