Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Trends in Above and Belowground Carbon with Forest Regrowth After Agricultural Abandonment in the Neotropics

Chapter 3 Post Sugar Cane Succession in Moist Alluvial Sites in Puerto Rico

Chapter 4 Soil Fungi and Macrofauna in the Neotropics

Chapter 5 Earthworms and Post-Agricultural Succession

Chapter 6 Factors Affecting the Species Richness and Composition of Neotropical Secondary Succession: A Case Study of Abandoned Agricultural Land in Panama

Chapter 7 Seed Dispersal by Cattle: Natural History and Applications to Neotropical Forest Restoration and Agroforestry

Chapter 8 The Roles of Disperser Behavior and Physical Habitat Structure in Regeneration of Post-Agricultural Fields

Chapter 9 Neotropic Post-Dispersal Seed Predation

Chapter 10 Facilitation Versus Competition in Neotropical Old-Fields: A Case Study After Pinus taeda Cultivation in Brazil

Chapter 11 Recruitment of Dry Forest Tree Species in Central Brazil Pastures

Chapter 12 Microbial Biomass in Native Amazonian Ecosystems and its Adaptation to Deforestation and Pasture Introduction and Management

Chapter 13 Management for Sustainability and Restoration of Degraded Pastures in the Neotropics

Chapter 14 Conclusions, Synthesis, and Future Directions