Where does the forest come back from? Soil and litter seed banks and the juvenile bank as sources of vegetation resilience in a semiarid Neotropical forest

This research paper examines the role of soil seed banks, litter seed banks, and juvenile plant banks as sources of vegetation resilience for dominant woody species in the semiarid Neotropical Chaco forest of Córdoba, Argentina, across varying levels of land-use intensity.

• In the Chaco forest, the litter seed bank and juvenile bank are the primary reservoirs for dominant woody species, whereas woody species were not found in the soil seed bank.
• The capacity of the litter seed and juvenile banks to provide ecosystem resilience declines as the intensity of land use increases, as evidenced by a decrease in similarity between these reservoirs and the established vegetation of the primary forest reference ecosystem.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (2025). Where does the forest come back from? Soil and litter seed banks and the juvenile bank as sources of vegetation resilience in a semiarid Neotropical forest. https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/where-does-the-forest-come-back-from-soil-and-litter-seed-banks-and-the-juvenile-bank-as-sources-of-vegetation-resilience-in-a-semiarid-neotropical-forest/

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Where does the forest come back from? Soil and litter seed banks and the juvenile bank as sources of vegetation resilience in a semiarid Neotropical forest. 2025. https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/where-does-the-forest-come-back-from-soil-and-litter-seed-banks-and-the-juvenile-bank-as-sources-of-vegetation-resilience-in-a-semiarid-neotropical-forest/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearch2025where, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{Where does the forest come back from? Soil and litter seed banks and the juvenile bank as sources of vegetation resilience in a semiarid Neotropical forest}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2025}, month = jan, url = {https://iai.int/es/pub_acad/where-does-the-forest-come-back-from-soil-and-litter-seed-banks-and-the-juvenile-bank-as-sources-of-vegetation-resilience-in-a-semiarid-neotropical-forest/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }