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Although many degraded areas are currently undergoing regeneration, the capacity of these secondary forests to recover their biodiversity attributes remains insufficiently assessed within this park. This study quantifies the multidimensional restoration of biodiversity across 125 secondary forest plots and 15 primary forest plots representing 14,731 inventoried individuals in four sectors of the park. Using a Bayesian modelling framework, we estimate recovery trajectories of Shannon diversity, floristic composition, functional traits (wood density, leaf mass per area, seed mass), and conservation-relevant species. The different biodiversity attributes recovered at contrasting rates. Diversity was restored more rapidly (\u03bb\u2009=\u20090.06) than floristic composition (\u03bb\u2009=\u20090.03), and these recovery rates varied according to environmental variables. Among these, the presence of remnant trees showed the highest median on diversity (0.53\u2009\u00b1\u20090.61) and floristic composition (0.37\u2009\u00b1\u20090.17), promoting the rapid recovery of both attributes, followed by prior land use, particularly cocoa farming which also positively influenced the recovery of alpha diversity (\u03bb\u2009=\u20090.03) and floristic composition (\u03bb\u2009=\u20090.02). Regarding functional traits, they displayed contrasting dynamics: leaf mass per area (LMA) and seed mass recovered rapidly along successional gradients, whereas wood density followed a more gradual recovery trajectory. From a conservation perspective, although the proportion of IUCN Red List species remained stable along the successional gradient, old-growth indicator species were significantly more abundant in primary forests. 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