Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits

Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges

(2020) Nathalie Seddon et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How feasible are global forest restoration commitments?

(2020) Matthew E. Fagan et al.   Conservation Letters

Achieving cost‐effective landscape‐scale forest restoration through targeted natural regeneration

(2020) Renato Crouzeilles et al.   Conservation Letters

Ecological restoration is the dominant driver of the recent reversal of desertification in the Mu Us Desert (China)

(2020) Qingfu Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Tree planting is not a simple solution

(2020) Karen D. Holl et al.   SCIENCE

Impact of Invasive Tree Species on Natural Regeneration Species Composition, Diversity, and Density

(2020) Marcin K. Dyderski et al.   Forests

Tree planting in organic soils does not result in net carbon sequestration on decadal timescales

(2020) Nina L. Friggens et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Guidance for Successful Tree Planting Initiatives

(2020) Pedro H.S. Brancalion et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Shedding light on relationships between plant diversity and tropical forest ecosystem services across spatial scales and plot sizes

(2020) Gijs Steur et al.   Ecosystem Services

Impacts of Chilean forest subsidies on forest cover, carbon and biodiversity

(2020) Robert Heilmayr et al.   Nature Sustainability

Divergent responses of soil organic carbon to afforestation

(2020) Songbai Hong et al.   Nature Sustainability

Maximizing the value of forest restoration for tropical mammals by detecting three-dimensional habitat associations

(2020) Nicolas J. Deere et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Active restoration accelerates the carbon recovery of human-modified tropical forests

(2020) Christopher D. Philipson et al.   SCIENCE

Forest Landscape Restoration—What Generates Failure and Success?

(2020) Markus Höhl et al.   Forests

Global forest restoration and the importance of prioritizing local communities

(2020) J. T. Erbaugh et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

(2019) Danaë M. A. Rozendaal et al.   Science Advances

Grounding nature-based climate solutions in sound biodiversity science

(2019) Nathalie Seddon et al.   Nature Climate Change

Biodiversity assessments in the 21st century: the potential of insect traps to complement environmental samples for estimating eukaryotic and prokaryotic diversity using high-throughput DNA metabarcoding

(2019) Camila D. Ritter et al.   GENOME

Evaluating the success of direct seeding for tropical forest restoration over ten years

(2019) Marina Guimarães Freitas et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses

(2019) B. S. Steidinger et al.   NATURE

Rewilding complex ecosystems

(2019) Andrea Perino et al.   SCIENCE

New guidance for ex situ gene conservation: Sampling realistic population systems and accounting for collection attrition

(2019) Sean Hoban   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Edaphic factors and initial conditions influence successional trajectories of early regenerating tropical dry forests

(2019) Sergio Estrada‐Villegas et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Restoring forests as a means to many ends

(2019) Robin Chazdon et al.   SCIENCE

Evaluating the potential contribution of urban ecosystem service to climate change mitigation

(2019) Vahid Amini Parsa et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Exotic eucalypts: from demonized trees to allies of tropical forest restoration?

(2019) Pedro H.S. Brancalion et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

A new approach to map landscape variation in forest restoration success in tropical and temperate forest biomes

(2019) Renato Crouzeilles et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The Trouble with Trees: Afforestation Plans for Africa

(2019) William J. Bond et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Assessing seed desiccation responses of native trees in the Caribbean

(2019) Efisio Mattana et al.   NEW FORESTS

A new era in forest restoration monitoring

(2019) Danilo R. A. de Almeida et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

(2019) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   SCIENCE

Degradation and forgone removals increase the carbon impact of intact forest loss by 626%

(2019) Sean L. Maxwell et al.   Science Advances

REDD+ measurement, reporting and verification – A cost trap? Implications for financing REDD+MRV costs by result-based payments

(2019) Michael Köhl et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Rainfall interception and plant community in young forest restorations

(2019) Fernando Ravanini Gardon et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Silvicultural treatment effects on commercial timber volume and functional composition of a selectively logged Australian tropical forest over 48 years

(2019) Jing Hu et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Grasslands may be more reliable carbon sinks than forests in California

(2018) Pawlok Dass et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Benefits of mycorrhizal inoculation to ecological restoration depend on plant functional type, restoration context and time

(2018) Lena Neuenkamp et al.   Fungal Ecology

Divergent perceptions of the ‘neo-Australian’ forests of lowland eastern Madagascar: Invasions, transitions, and livelihoods

(2018) Christian A. Kull et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Assessing nature's contributions to people

(2018) Sandra Díaz et al.   SCIENCE

Forest landscape restoration for livelihoods and well-being

(2018) James T Erbaugh et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems

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

Reviewing the evidence base for the effects of woodland expansion on biodiversity and ecosystem services in the United Kingdom

(2018) Vanessa Burton et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

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

Are government incentives effective for avoided deforestation in the tropical Andean forest?

(2018) Pablo Cuenca et al.   PLoS One

Major bottlenecks for the restoration of natural forests in Chile

(2018) Jan R. Bannister et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Is the introduction of novel exotic forest tree species a rational response to rapid environmental change? – A British perspective

(2018) Richard Ennos et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Green desert?: Biodiversity patterns in forest plantations

(2018) Jakub Horák et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest restoration in southern Amazonia: Soil preparation triggers natural regeneration

(2018) Gustavo Mariano Rezende et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Using markets to leverage investment in forest and landscape restoration in the tropics

(2017) Pedro H.S. Brancalion et al.   FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS

Predicting the global incidence of seed desiccation sensitivity

(2017) Sarah V. Wyse et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The feasibility of local participation in Measuring, Reporting and Verification (PMRV) for REDD+

(2017) Manuel Boissière et al.   PLoS One

Targeted habitat restoration can reduce extinction rates in fragmented forests

(2017) William D. Newmark et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Beyond hectares: four principles to guide reforestation in the context of tropical forest and landscape restoration

(2017) Pedro H. S. Brancalion et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Forest and landscape restoration severely constrained by a lack of attention to the quantity and quality of tree seed: Insights from a global survey

(2017) Riina Jalonen et al.   Conservation Letters

A global review of past land use, climate, and active vs. passive restoration effects on forest recovery

(2017) Paula Meli et al.   PLoS One

Current European policies are unlikely to jointly foster carbon sequestration and protect biodiversity

(2016) Sabina Burrascano et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Natural regeneration in the context of large-scale forest and landscape restoration in the tropics

(2016) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   BIOTROPICA

Stakeholders and tropical reforestation: challenges, trade-offs, and strategies in dynamic environments

(2016) Elena Lazos-Chavero et al.   BIOTROPICA

Roles of non-native species in large-scale regeneration of moist tropical forests on anthropogenic grassland

(2016) Carla P. Catterall   BIOTROPICA

Ecological outcomes and livelihood benefits of community-managed agroforests and second growth forests in Southeast Brazil

(2016) Saulo E. X. Franco de Souza et al.   BIOTROPICA

Carbon sequestration and biodiversity following 18 years of active tropical forest restoration

(2016) Charlotte E. Wheeler et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Integrating plant- and animal-based perspectives for more effective restoration of biodiversity

(2016) Clive McAlpine et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Can biochar be used as a seed coating to improve native plant germination and growth in arid conditions?

(2016) Mary I. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

Revegetation in China’s Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits

(2016) Xiaoming Feng et al.   Nature Climate Change

The Potential Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in the Restoration of Degraded Lands

(2016) Fisseha Asmelash et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Identifying Where REDD+ Financially Out-Competes Oil Palm in Floodplain Landscapes Using a Fine-Scale Approach

(2016) Nicola K. Abram et al.   PLoS One

Contributions of a global network of tree diversity experiments to sustainable forest plantations

(2015) Kris Verheyen et al.   AMBIO

Ex situ seed collections will benefit from considering spatial sampling design and species’ reproductive biology

(2015) Sean Hoban et al.   BIOLOGICAL 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

Where Tree Planting and Forest Expansion are Bad for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

(2015) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Tropical forest seeds in the household economy: effects of market participation among three sociocultural groups in the Upper Xingu region of the Brazilian Amazon

(2015) D. I. URZEDO et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Effects of forest management on productivity and carbon sequestration: A review and hypothesis

(2015) A. Noormets et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The effectiveness of different planting frameworks for recruitment of tropical rainforest species on ex-rainforest land

(2015) Singarayer K. Florentine et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance

(2015) C. I. Millar et al.   SCIENCE

Genetic considerations in ecosystem restoration using native tree species

(2014) Evert Thomas et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The role of forest genetic resources in responding to biotic and abiotic factors in the context of anthropogenic climate change

(2014) René I. Alfaro et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Overcoming ecological barriers to tropical lower montane forest succession on anthropogenic grasslands: Synthesis and future prospects

(2014) A.M.T.A. Gunaratne et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

(2014) Jérôme Chave et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains

(2014) D. Nepstad et al.   SCIENCE

Cracking Brazil's Forest Code

(2014) B. Soares-Filho et al.   SCIENCE

Community Monitoring for REDD+: International Promises and Field Realities

(2013) Finn Danielsen et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Extreme Differences in Forest Degradation in Borneo: Comparing Practices in Sarawak, Sabah, and Brunei

(2013) Jane E. Bryan et al.   PLoS One

Cultural Ecosystem Services and Popular Perceptions of the Benefits of an Ecological Restoration Project in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

(2013) Pedro H. S. Brancalion et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Aboveground biomass in mature and secondary seasonally dry tropical forests: A literature review and global synthesis

(2012) Justin M. Becknell et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Do eucalypt plantations provide habitat for native forest biodiversity?

(2012) María Calviño-Cancela et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Testing applied nucleation as a strategy to facilitate tropical forest recovery

(2012) Rakan A. Zahawi et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The role of ex situ seed banks in the conservation of plant diversity and in ecological restoration in Latin America

(2012) Pedro León-Lobos et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Postfire Restoration of Soil Hydrology and Wildland Vegetation Using Surfactant Seed Coating Technology

(2012) Matthew D. Madsen et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Demographic processes limiting seedling recruitment in arid grassland restoration

(2011) Jeremy J. James et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

(2011) Luke Gibson et al.   NATURE

A Reassessment of Carbon Content in Tropical Trees

(2011) Adam R. Martin et al.   PLoS One

Restoration Seed Banks--A Matter of Scale

(2011) D. J. Merritt et al.   SCIENCE

Fallow to forest: Applying indigenous and scientific knowledge of swidden cultivation to tropical forest restoration

(2010) Prasit Wangpakapattanawong et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest transitions, trade, and the global displacement of land use

(2010) P. Meyfroidt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

OCBIL theory: towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes

(2009) Stephen D. Hopper   PLANT AND SOIL

Enhancement of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services by Ecological Restoration: A Meta-Analysis

(2009) J. M. R. Benayas et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity in forest carbon sequestration initiatives: not just a side benefit

(2009) Sandra Díaz et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Restoring a rainforest habitat linkage in north Queensland: Donaghy’s Corridor

(2009) Nigel I. J. Tucker et al.   ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT & RESTORATION

Plantation forests and biodiversity: oxymoron or opportunity?

(2008) Eckehard G. Brockerhoff et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Seed supply for broadscale restoration: maximizing evolutionary potential

(2008) Linda M. Broadhurst et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks

(2008) Sebastiaan Luyssaert et al.   NATURE

Seed banks of invasive Australian Acacia species in South Africa: Role in invasiveness and options for management

(2008) David M. Richardson et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Fire-mediated dieback and compositional cascade in an Amazonian forest

(2008) J. Barlow et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES