Hidden destruction of older forests threatens Brazil’s Atlantic Forest and challenges restoration programs

Fostering natural forest regeneration on former agricultural land through economic and policy interventions

(2020) Robin Chazdon et al.   Environmental Research Letters

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

(2020) Renato Crouzeilles et al.   Conservation Letters

Tree planting is not a simple solution

(2020) Karen D. Holl et al.   SCIENCE

The fate of tropical forest fragments

(2020) Matthew C. Hansen et al.   Science Advances

Guidance for Successful Tree Planting Initiatives

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

Forest proximity rather than local forest cover affects bee diversity and coffee pollination services

(2020) Adrian González-Chaves et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine

(2020) Carlos M. Souza et al.   Remote Sensing

Biodiversity recovery of Neotropical secondary forests

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

Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon

(2019) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Restoring forests as a means to many ends

(2019) Robin Chazdon et al.   SCIENCE

Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes

(2019) Pedro H. S. Brancalion et al.   Science Advances

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

Key issues in rigorous accuracy assessment of land cover products

(2019) Stephen V. Stehman et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The forest transformation: Planted tree cover and regional dynamics of tree gains and losses

(2019) Sean Sloan et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Ongoing primary forest loss in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia

(2018) Svetlana Turubanova et al.   Environmental Research Letters

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

Classifying drivers of global forest loss

(2018) Philip G. Curtis et al.   SCIENCE

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

Landscape structure regulates pest control provided by ants in sun coffee farms

(2018) Natalia Aristizábal et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

Anthropogenic ecosystem disturbance and the recovery debt

(2017) David Moreno-Mateos et al.   Nature Communications

The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013

(2017) Peter Potapov et al.   Science Advances

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

(2017) Paula Meli et al.   PLoS One

Landscape structure influences bee community and coffee pollination at different spatial scales

(2016) Fernanda Teixeira Saturni et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Natural regeneration as a tool for large-scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges

(2016) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   BIOTROPICA

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

A critical analysis of the Native Vegetation Protection Law of Brazil (2012): updates and ongoing initiatives

(2016) Pedro H.S. Brancalion et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

(2016) R. L. Chazdon et al.   Science Advances

Atlantic Forest spontaneous regeneration at landscape scale

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

Aboveground carbon loss in natural and managed tropical forests from 2000 to 2012

(2015) A Tyukavina et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Increasing human dominance of tropical forests

(2015) S. L. Lewis et al.   SCIENCE

Remaining natural vegetation in the global biodiversity hotspots

(2014) Sean Sloan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Estimating area and map accuracy for stratified random sampling when the strata are different from the map classes

(2014) Stephen V. Stehman   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Experiences from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: ecological findings and conservation initiatives

(2014) Carlos A. Joly et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global, Landsat-based forest-cover change from 1990 to 2000

(2014) Do-Hyung Kim et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change

(2014) Pontus Olofsson et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Using ecological thresholds to evaluate the costs and benefits of set-asides in a biodiversity hotspot

(2014) C. Banks-Leite et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2014) D. Nepstad et al.   SCIENCE

Long-term carbon loss in fragmented Neotropical forests

(2014) Sandro Pütz et al.   Nature Communications

Governing and Delivering a Biome-Wide Restoration Initiative: The Case of Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact in Brazil

(2014) Severino Pinto et al.   Forests

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

What Does Zero Deforestation Mean?

(2013) S. Brown et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2012) T. Mitchell Aide et al.   BIOTROPICA

Land-use and land-cover change in Atlantic Forest landscapes

(2012) Paula K. Lira et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Making better use of accuracy data in land change studies: Estimating accuracy and area and quantifying uncertainty using stratified estimation

(2012) Pontus Olofsson et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Death to Kappa: birth of quantity disagreement and allocation disagreement for accuracy assessment

(2011) Robert Gilmore Pontius et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

(2011) Luke Gibson et al.   NATURE

The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How much is left, and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for conservation

(2009) Milton Cezar Ribeiro et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Conserving the hottest of the hotspots

(2008) William F. Laurance   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION