Recovery from clearing, cyclone and fire in rain forests of Tonga, South Pacific: Vegetation dynamics 1995-2005

Agriculture & Biology

• Tonga 100%
• rain forests 65%
• vegetation 48%
• saplings 48%
• seedlings 40%
• shade 39%
• land clearing 33%
• Macaranga 33%
• forest dynamics 31%
• shifting cultivation 30%
• overstory 27%
• Carica papaya 27%
• secondary forests 26%
• land use 21%
• species recruitment 19%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• rain forest 79%
• vegetation dynamics 75%
• seedling 67%
• cyclone 63%
• sapling 54%
• land clearing 31%
• shifting cultivation 28%
• overstory 28%
• forest dynamics 27%
• secondary forest 26%
• annual variation 21%
• community composition 20%
• disturbance 15%
• land use 14%
• effect 5%