Drivers of tropical forest cover increase: A systematic review

Woody vegetation dynamics in the tropical and subtropical Andes from 2001 to 2014: satellite image interpretation and expert validation

(2019) T. Mitchell Aide et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Intensive silviculture enhances biomass accumulation and tree diversity recovery in tropical forest restoration

(2019) Pedro H. S. Brancalion et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon

(2019) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Narratives Across Scales on Barriers and Strategies for Upscaling Forest Restoration: A Brazilian Case Study

(2019) Daniella Schweizer et al.   Forests

An Exploration of Some Pitfalls of Thematic Map Assessment Using the New Map Tools Resource

(2018) Carl Salk et al.   Remote Sensing

The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems

(2018) James E. M. Watson et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A landscape approach for cost-effective large-scale forest restoration

(2018) Paulo Guilherme Molin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Global land change from 1982 to 2016

(2018) Xiao-Peng Song et al.   NATURE

The tropical forest carbon cycle and climate change

(2018) Edward T. A. Mitchard   NATURE

The ephemerality of secondary forests in southern Costa Rica

(2018) J. Leighton Reid et al.   Conservation Letters

The neotropical reforestation hotspots: A biophysical and socioeconomic typology of contemporary forest expansion

(2018) A. Sofía Nanni et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Restoration of ecosystem services in tropical forests: A global meta-analysis

(2018) Carolina Y. Shimamoto et al.   PLoS One

Land-use dynamics influence estimates of carbon sequestration potential in tropical second-growth forest

(2017) Naomi B Schwartz et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Spatial determinants of Atlantic Forest loss and recovery in Brazil

(2017) Paulo G. Molin et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Restoring tropical forests from the bottom up

(2017) Karen D. Holl   SCIENCE

Land-Use Redistribution Compensated for Ecosystem Service Losses Derived from Agriculture Expansion, with Mixed Effects on Biodiversity in a NW Argentina Watershed

(2017) et al.   Forests

Ecological restoration success is higher for natural regeneration than for active restoration in tropical forests

(2017) Renato Crouzeilles et al.   Science Advances

Balancing economic costs and ecological outcomes of passive and active restoration in agricultural landscapes: the case of Brazil

(2016) Pedro H. S. Brancalion et al.   BIOTROPICA

Development of deforestation and land cover database for Bhutan (1930–2014)

(2016) C. Sudhakar Reddy et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

International trade, and land use intensification and spatial reorganization explain Costa Rica’s forest transition

(2016) I Jadin et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation

(2016) Jos Barlow et al.   NATURE

Beyond deforestation: Differences in long-term regrowth dynamics across land use regimes in southern Amazonia

(2016) Hannes Müller et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Four approaches to guide ecological restoration in Latin America

(2016) Paula Meli et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

A 70-year perspective on tropical forest regeneration

(2016) Sawaid Abbas et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A Policy-Driven Knowledge Agenda for Global Forest and Landscape Restoration

(2016) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   Conservation Letters

Opportunities for biodiversity gains under the world’s largest reforestation programme

(2016) Fangyuan Hua et al.   Nature Communications

Atlantic Forest spontaneous regeneration at landscape scale

(2015) Camila Linhares de Rezende et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Multiple successional pathways in human-modified tropical landscapes: new insights from forest succession, forest fragmentation and landscape ecology research

(2015) Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Mapping dynamics of deforestation and forest degradation in tropical forests using radar satellite data

(2015) Neha Joshi et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Forest Resources Assessment of 2015 shows positive global trends but forest loss and degradation persist in poor tropical countries

(2015) Sean Sloan et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Creating space for large-scale restoration in tropical agricultural landscapes

(2015) Agnieszka E Latawiec et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Land Use and Cover Dynamics Since 1964 in the Afro-Alpine Vegetation Belt: Lib Amba Mountain in North Ethiopia

(2015) Miro Jacob et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Tropical forest regeneration following land abandonment is driven by primary rainforest distribution in an old pastoral region

(2015) Sean Sloan et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

MODELOS ESTOCÁSTICOS APLICADOS À AVALIAÇÃO DINÂMICA DA PAISAGEM FLORESTAL DE REMANESCENTES DE MATA ATLÂNTICA NO MUNICÍPIO DE CAXIAS DO SUL-RS1

(2015) Gisele Cemin et al.   REVISTA ARVORE

Committing to ecological restoration

(2015) K. Suding et al.   SCIENCE

Increasing human dominance of tropical forests

(2015) S. L. Lewis et al.   SCIENCE

Challenges and Prospects for Scaling-up Ecological Restoration to Meet International Commitments: Colombia as a Case Study

(2015) Carolina Murcia et al.   Conservation Letters

Long-term socio-economic and spatial pattern drivers of land cover change in a Caribbean tropical moist forest, the Cockpit Country, Jamaica

(2014) Minke E. Newman et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Have tropical deforestation's changing dynamics created conservation opportunities? A historical analysis

(2014) THOMAS K. RUDEL   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Local Wood Demand, Land Cover Change and the State of Albany Thicket on an Urban Commonage in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

(2014) M. M. Stickler et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Geospatial assessment and monitoring of historical forest cover changes (1920–2012) in Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Western Ghats, India

(2014) K. V. Satish et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Climate variability and vulnerability to climate change: a review

(2014) Philip K Thornton et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Flexible and Adaptable Restoration: An Example from South Korea

(2014) Vicky M. Temperton et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Consequences of the Armed Conflict, Forced Human Displacement, and Land Abandonment on Forest Cover Change in Colombia: A Multi-scaled Analysis

(2013) Ana María Sánchez-Cuervo et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Evaluating drivers of land-use change and transition potential models in a complex landscape in Southern Mexico

(2013) Melanie Kolb et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE

Integration of Hyperion Satellite Data and A Household Social Survey to Characterize the Causes and Consequences of Reforestation Patterns in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon

(2013) Stephen J. Walsh et al.   PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING AND REMOTE SENSING

Carbon pools recover more quickly than plant biodiversity in tropical secondary forests

(2013) P. A. Martin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The recovery of the lower montane cloud forest in the Mucujún watershed, Mérida, Venezuela

(2013) Néstor Gutiérrez B. et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Increasing tree cover while losing diverse natural forests in tropical Hainan, China

(2013) De-Li Zhai et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Identifying hotspots of deforestation and reforestation in Colombia (2001–2010): implications for protected areas

(2013) Ana Maria Sanchez-Cuervo et al.   Ecosphere

Deforestation and Reforestation of Latin America and the Caribbean (2001-2010)

(2012) T. Mitchell Aide et al.   BIOTROPICA

National forest cover change in Congo Basin: deforestation, reforestation, degradation and regeneration for the years 1990, 2000 and 2005

(2012) Céline Ernst et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Monitoring the invasion of an exotic tree (Ligustrum lucidum) from 1983 to 2006 with Landsat TM/ETM+ satellite data and Support Vector Machines in Córdoba, Argentina

(2012) Gregorio I. Gavier-Pizarro et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The Human Ecology of Regrowth in the Tropics

(2012) Thomas K. Rudel   Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Factors influencing vegetation cover change in Mediterranean Central Chile (1975-2008)

(2011) Jennifer J. Schulz et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Biophysical and Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Forest Transitions at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales

(2011) Charles B. Yackulic et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Comparing two approaches to land use/cover change modeling and their implications for the assessment of biodiversity loss in a deciduous tropical forest

(2011) Azucena Pérez-Vega et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Global interannual variability in terrestrial ecosystems: sources and spatial distribution using MODIS-derived vegetation indices, social and biophysical factors

(2011) Pedram Rowhani et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Systematic and random transitions of land-cover types in Burkina Faso, West Africa

(2011) Issa Ouedraogo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

The influence of socioeconomic, environmental, and demographic factors on municipality-scale land-cover change in Mexico

(2011) Martha Bonilla-Moheno et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Large-scale ecological restoration of high-diversity tropical forests in SE Brazil

(2010) Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

When and where to actively restore ecosystems?

(2010) K.D. Holl et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Dynamic modeling of forest conversion: Simulation of past and future scenarios of rural activities expansion in the fringes of the Xingu National Park, Brazilian Amazon

(2010) Eduardo E. Maeda et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

A review of spatial-explicit factors determining spatial distribution of land use/land-use change

(2010) Yasushi Mitsuda et al.   Landscape and Ecological Engineering

Cost-effectiveness of dryland forest restoration evaluated by spatial analysis of ecosystem services

(2010) J. C. Birch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

(2010) H. C. J. Godfray et al.   SCIENCE

Forest recovery in a tropical landscape: what is the relative importance of biophysical, socioeconomic, and landscape variables?

(2009) Tanja Crk et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Modeling landscape dynamics in an Atlantic Rainforest region: Implications for conservation

(2008) Ana Maria G. Teixeira et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest transition in Vietnam and its environmental impacts

(2008) PATRICK MEYFROIDT et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Deforestation in Central Africa: Estimates at regional, national and landscape levels by advanced processing of systematically-distributed Landsat extracts

(2008) G. Duveiller et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT