Teegalapalli & Datta FE&M

Vegetation data (trees and regeneration) was collected from different-aged successional sites formed following shifting cultivation and uncut forest sites. Data was collected from two replicate sites each from 2 year, 12 year, 25 year and 50 year old successional sites and two uncut forest sites. Trees (diameter at breast height, dbh>=3 cm) were inventoried and identified to species or genus level in twelve 7 m radius plots located 25 m from each other on alternating sides of a 250-m transect. We enumerated the regeneration comprising of seedlings (height<=25 cm) and saplings (height>25 cm & <=100 cm) of tree species in each of the four successional stages and the uncut forest sites in 1-m and 3-m radius nested within the 7-m radius plots, respectively. Detailed methods are provided in the methods section of the main article.