Forest landscape restoration: state of play

How feasible are global forest restoration commitments?

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

Farmers’ Perceptions of Tree Shelterbelts on Agricultural Land in Rural Kyrgyzstan

(2020) Daniel Ruppert et al.   Sustainability

Climate change impact on future wildfire danger and activity in southern Europe: a review

(2020) Jean-luc Dupuy et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Restoring tropical forest composition is more difficult, but recovering tree-cover is faster, when neighbouring forests are young

(2020) R. M. Toledo et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Ecological outcomes of agroforests and restoration 15 years after planting

(2020) Carolina Giudice Badari et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

(2020) Nate G. McDowell et al.   SCIENCE

Cost–Benefit Analysis of Measures to Reduce Windstorm Impact in Pure Norway Spruce (Picea abies L. Karst.) Stands in Latvia

(2020) Valters Samariks et al.   Forests

The long-term restoration of ecosystem complexity

(2020) David Moreno-Mateos et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

An approach for assessing adaptive capacity to climate change in resource dependent communities in the Nikachu watershed, Bhutan

(2020) Kunzang Choden et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Soil and water threats in a changing environment

(2020) Paulo Pereira et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Scaling up forest landscape restoration in Canada in an era of cumulative effects and climate change

(2020) Nicolas Mansuy et al.   FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS

A lesson unlearned? Underestimating tree cover in drylands biases global restoration maps

(2020) M. E. Fagan   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Tropical forest loss enhanced by large-scale land acquisitions

(2020) Kyle Frankel Davis et al.   Nature Geoscience

Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

(2020) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   SCIENCE

Achieving Quality Forest and Landscape Restoration in the Tropics

(2020) Liz Ota et al.   Forests

Forest Landscape Restoration—What Generates Failure and Success?

(2020) Markus Höhl et al.   Forests

The Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative as an opportunity to enhance resilience in Sahelian landscapes and livelihoods

(2019) Deborah Goffner et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Climate change and mixed forests: how do altered survival probabilities impact economically desirable species proportions of Norway spruce and European beech?

(2019) Carola Paul et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Implementing forest landscape restoration under the Bonn Challenge: a systematic approach

(2019) John A. Stanturf et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

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

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

Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon

(2019) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

The global tree restoration potential

(2019) Jean-Francois Bastin et al.   SCIENCE

Land Restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Overview of Recent, Ongoing and Planned Restoration Initiatives and Their Potential for Climate Change Mitigation

(2019) Erika Romijn et al.   Forests

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

(2019) Daniella Schweizer et al.   Forests

Evaluation of restoration approaches on the Inner Mongolian Steppe based on criteria of the Society for Ecological Restoration

(2019) Feng Zhang et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Characterizing and evaluating the impacts of national land restoration initiatives on ecosystem services in Ethiopia

(2019) Wuletawu Abera et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER: INTEGRATION FOR FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION IMPLEMENTATION

(2019) Stephanie Mansourian et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

The Trouble with Trees: Afforestation Plans for Africa

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

Forest-water interactions in the changing environment of south-western Australia

(2019) Richard Harper et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

From addressing symptoms to tackling the illness: Reversing forest loss and degradation

(2019) Stephanie Mansourian et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Global forest discourses must connect with local forest realities

(2018) G.Q. Bull et al.   INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY REVIEW

Redirecting fire-prone Mediterranean ecosystems toward more resilient and less flammable communities

(2018) Victor M. Santana et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

In the eye of the beholder: Reconciling interpretations of forest landscape restoration

(2018) Stephanie Mansourian   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Transformational restoration: novel ecosystems in Denmark

(2018) John A. Stanturf et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Measuring progress in status of land under forest landscape restoration using abiotic and biotic indicators

(2018) Nigel Dudley et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

A policy nexus approach to forests and the SDGs: tradeoffs and synergies

(2018) Joleen Timko et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Community Forestry and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Two Way Street

(2018) Wil de Jong et al.   Forests

Upscaling restoration of native biodiversity: A New Zealand perspective

(2018) David A. Norton et al.   ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT & RESTORATION

Meeting global land restoration and protection targets: What would the world look like in 2050?

(2018) Sarah Wolff et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Characterizing combined fire and insect outbreak disturbance regimes in British Columbia, Canada

(2018) Philip J. Burton et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Global land change from 1982 to 2016

(2018) Xiao-Peng Song et al.   NATURE

Global synthesis of conservation studies reveals the importance of small habitat patches for biodiversity

(2018) Brendan A. Wintle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Natural Resource Management Schemes as Entry Points for Integrated Landscape Approaches: Evidence from Ghana and Burkina Faso

(2017) Samson Foli et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Reforestation policy integration by the multiple sectors toward forest transition in the Republic of Korea

(2017) Mi Sun Park et al.   FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS

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

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

Exclosures as forest and landscape restoration tools: lessons from Tigray Region, Ethiopia

(2017) E. Birhane et al.   INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY REVIEW

Governance and forest landscape restoration: A framework to support decision-making

(2017) Stephanie Mansourian   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Unpacking the concept of land degradation neutrality and addressing its operation through the Rio Conventions

(2017) Mariam Akhtar-Schuster et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functional Enhancement by Forest Restoration: A Meta-analysis in China

(2017) Yanjiao Ren et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

China's fight to halt tree cover loss

(2017) Antje Ahrends et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Reflections on four decades of land restoration in Australia

(2017) Andrew Campbell et al.   RANGELAND JOURNAL

Forest Landscape Restoration: increasing the positive impacts of forest restoration or simply the area under tree cover?

(2017) Stephanie Mansourian et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Time, space, place, and the Bonn Challenge global forest restoration target

(2017) Michael Verdone et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

The development of reforestation options for dryland farmland in south-western Australia: a review

(2017) Richard J Harper et al.   Southern Forests

Overview of restoration and management practices in the degraded landscapes of the Sahelian and dryland forests and woodlands of East and southern Africa

(2017) Paxie W Chirwa et al.   Southern Forests

Afforestation of arid and semiarid ecosystems in Turkey

(2017) Servet ÇALIŞKAN et al.   Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Protocol for Monitoring Tropical Forest Restoration

(2017) Ricardo A. G. Viani et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Implementing Forest Landscape Restoration in Ethiopia

(2017) Till Pistorius et al.   Forests

Tree Shelterbelts as an Element to Improve Water Resource Management in Central Asia

(2017) Niels Thevs et al.   Water

Selection of Native Tree Species for Subtropical Forest Restoration in Southwest China

(2017) Yang Lu et al.   PLoS One

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

(2016) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   BIOTROPICA

Visions of Restoration in Fire-Adapted Forest Landscapes: Lessons from the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program

(2016) Lauren S. Urgenson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Bioenergy production and sustainable development: science base for policymaking remains limited

(2016) Carmenza Robledo-Abad et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Exploring marginal and degraded lands for biomass and bioenergy production: An Indian scenario

(2016) Sheikh Adil Edrisi et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Ecological restoration across the Mediterranean Basin as viewed by practitioners

(2016) Alice Nunes et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Measuring the effectiveness of landscape approaches to conservation and development

(2016) Jeffrey A. Sayer et al.   Sustainability Science

Mapping the World's Intact Forest Landscapes by Remote Sensing

(2016) Peter Potapov et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Global Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on Agricultural Land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets

(2016) Robert J. Zomer et al.   Scientific Reports

Rewilding: Science, Practice, and Politics

(2015) Jamie Lorimer et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

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

(2015) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Land use patterns and related carbon losses following deforestation in South America

(2015) V De Sy et al.   Environmental Research Letters

What is close-to-nature silviculture in a changing world?

(2015) Kevin L. O'Hara   FORESTRY

Future landscapes: opportunities and challenges

(2015) John A. Stanturf   NEW FORESTS

Forest restoration following surface mining disturbance: challenges and solutions

(2015) S. Ellen Macdonald et al.   NEW FORESTS

Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

(2015) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tropical reforestation and climate change: beyond carbon

(2015) Bruno Locatelli et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

On the need of legal frameworks for assessing restoration projects success: new perspectives from São Paulo state (Brazil)

(2015) Rafael B. Chaves et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Tyranny of trees in grassy biomes

(2015) J. W. Veldman et al.   SCIENCE

Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance

(2015) C. I. Millar et al.   SCIENCE

Contemporary forest restoration: A review emphasizing function

(2014) John A. Stanturf et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Elite capture risk and mitigation in decentralized forest governance regimes

(2014) Lauren Persha et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Hidden Costs of Passive Restoration

(2014) Rakan A. Zahawi et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

From Target to Implementation: Perspectives for the International Governance of Forest Landscape Restoration

(2014) Till Pistorius et al.   Forests

Forest Restoration Paradigms

(2014) John A. Stanturf et al.   Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Post-Soviet cropland abandonment and carbon sequestration in European Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus

(2013) Florian Schierhorn et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Does secure land tenure save forests? A meta-analysis of the relationship between land tenure and tropical deforestation

(2013) Brian E. Robinson et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

The national determinants of deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa

(2013) T. K. Rudel   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses

(2013) J. Sayer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

How to Organize a Large-Scale Ecological Restoration Program? The Framework Developed by the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact in Brazil

(2013) Pedro H. S. Brancalion et al.   Journal of Sustainable Forestry

An assessment of deforestation and forest degradation drivers in developing countries

(2012) Noriko Hosonuma et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Role of tenure insecurity in deforestation in Ghana's high forest zone

(2011) Lawrence Damnyag et al.   FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS

A critical assessment of collaborative adaptive management in practice

(2011) Lawrence Susskind et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The restoration of vegetation cover in the semi-arid Iberian southeast

(2011) J. Cortina et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Global and regional analysis of climate and human drivers of wildfire

(2011) Andrew Aldersley et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Valuing ecosystem services from wetlands restoration in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley

(2010) W. Aaron Jenkins et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Neither fast, nor easy: the prospect of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) in Ghana

(2010) C.P Hansen et al.   INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY REVIEW

Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century

(2010) Ruth S. DeFries et al.   Nature Geoscience

Quantification of global gross forest cover loss

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

Increasing storm damage to forests in Switzerland from 1858 to 2007

(2009) Tilo Usbeck et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Reforesting “Bare Hills” in Vietnam: Social and Environmental Consequences of the 5 Million Hectare Reforestation Program

(2009) Pamela McElwee   AMBIO

On the restoration of high diversity forests: 30 years of experience in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

(2009) Ricardo R. Rodrigues et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Trends in global wildfire potential in a changing climate

(2009) Yongqiang Liu et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Modelling the wind damage probability in forests in Southwestern Germany for the 1999 winter storm ‘Lothar’

(2009) Dirk Schindler et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

The Global Potential of Bioenergy on Abandoned Agriculture Lands

(2008) J. Elliott Campbell et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Recovering Riparian Plant Communities with Wolves in Northern Yellowstone, U.S.A.

(2008) Robert L. Beschta et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY