Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes

It is not just about time: Agricultural practices and surrounding forest cover affect secondary forest recovery in agricultural landscapes

(2021) Ricardo G. César et al.   BIOTROPICA

Sparing land for secondary forest regeneration protects more tropical biodiversity than land sharing in cattle farming landscapes

(2021) Felicity A. Edwards et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2021) Alice Di Sacco et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Major and persistent shifts in below‐ground carbon dynamics and soil respiration following logging in tropical forests

(2021) Terhi Riutta et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Practitioner Views on the Determinants of Tropical Forest Restoration Longevity

(2021) Lauren Nerfa et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Producing wood at least cost to biodiversity: integrating T riad and sharing–sparing approaches to inform forest landscape management

(2021) Matthew G. Betts et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Forest regeneration can positively contribute to local hydrological ecosystem services: Implications for forest landscape restoration

(2021) H. J. (Ilja) van Meerveld et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Recovery of logged forest fragments in a human-modified tropical landscape during the 2015-16 El Niño

(2021) Matheus Henrique Nunes et al.   Nature Communications

Long-term (1990–2019) monitoring of forest cover changes in the humid tropics

(2021) C. Vancutsem et al.   Science Advances

Impacts of wildlife trade on terrestrial biodiversity

(2021) Oscar Morton et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The economic consequences of conserving or restoring sites for nature

(2021) Richard B. Bradbury et al.   Nature Sustainability

Potential negative effects of the Green Wall on Sahel's biodiversity

(2021) Marisa Naia et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Nature-based solutions can help cool the planet — if we act now

(2021) Cécile A. J. Girardin et al.   NATURE

Large carbon sink potential of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon to mitigate climate change

(2021) Viola H. A. Heinrich et al.   Nature Communications

Mapping the deforestation footprint of nations reveals growing threat to tropical forests

(2021) Nguyen Tien Hoang et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Restoration of the Brazilian savanna after pine silviculture: Pine clearcutting is effective but not enough

(2021) Thaís Mazzafera Haddad et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Yield effects of climate-smart agriculture aid investment in southern Malawi

(2020) Festus O. Amadu et al.   FOOD POLICY

Initial establishment of commercial tree species under enrichment planting in a Central Amazon secondary forest: Effects of silvicultural treatments

(2020) Victor Alexandre Hardt Ferreira dos Santos et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

Persistent Quaternary climate refugia are hospices for biodiversity in the Anthropocene

(2020) Stuart C. Brown et al.   Nature Climate Change

Trophic rewilding revives biotic resistance to shrub invasion

(2020) Jennifer A. Guyton et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Economically viable forest restoration in shifting cultivation landscapes

(2020) Oscar Morton et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Widespread mangrove damage resulting from the 2017 Atlantic Mega Hurricane Season

(2020) Paul Taillie et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Invasive grasses: A new perfect storm for forested ecosystems?

(2020) Becky K. Kerns et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Large climate mitigation potential from adding trees to agricultural lands

(2020) Melissa Chapman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Rainfall anomalies are a significant driver of cropland expansion

(2020) Esha Zaveri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tree planting is not a simple solution

(2020) Karen D. Holl et al.   SCIENCE

A Local Initiative to Achieve Global Forest and Landscape Restoration Challenge—Lessons Learned from a Community-Based Forest Restoration Project in Biliran Province, Philippines

(2020) Nestor Gregorio et al.   Forests

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

(2020) M. E. Fagan   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The impact of interventions in the global land and agri‐food sectors on Nature’s Contributions to People and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

(2020) Pamela McElwee et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Guidance for Successful Tree Planting Initiatives

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

Effectiveness and costs of invasive species control using different techniques to restore cerrado grasslands

(2020) Geissianny B. Assis et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

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

Land‐use history determines ecosystem services and conservation value in tropical agroforestry

(2020) Dominic Andreas Martin et al.   Conservation Letters

Co-Creating Conceptual and Working Frameworks for Implementing Forest and Landscape Restoration Based on Core Principles

(2020) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   Forests

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

(2020) Robert Heilmayr et al.   Nature Sustainability

Bird diversity and endemism along a land‐use gradient in Madagascar: The conservation value of vanilla agroforests

(2020) Dominic Andreas Martin et al.   BIOTROPICA

Forest regeneration on European sheep pasture is an economically viable climate change mitigation strategy

(2020) Connie O’Neill et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Fishers who rely on mangroves: Modelling and mapping the global intensity of mangrove-associated fisheries

(2020) Philine S.E. zu Ermgassen et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Economic valuation of ecosystem services from secondary tropical forests: trade-offs and implications for policy making

(2020) Julia Naime et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Restoration concessions: a second lease on life for beleaguered tropical forests?

(2020) Rhett D Harrison et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Secondary forests offset less than 10% of deforestation‐mediated carbon emissions in the Brazilian Amazon

(2020) Charlotte C. Smith et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth

(2020) Susan C. Cook-Patton et al.   NATURE

Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

(2020) Bernardo B. N. Strassburg et al.   NATURE

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

Grasslands and savannahs in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

(2020) Nigel Dudley et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

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

(2020) Christopher D. Philipson et al.   SCIENCE

Economic and social constraints on reforestation for climate mitigation in Southeast Asia

(2020) Yiwen Zeng et al.   Nature Climate Change

Global forest restoration and the importance of prioritizing local communities

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

Bright Spots in Coastal Marine Ecosystem Restoration

(2020) Megan I. Saunders et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

People, primates and predators in the Pontal: from endangered species conservation to forest and landscape restoration in Brazil's Atlantic Forest

(2020) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Proactive conservation to prevent habitat losses to agricultural expansion

(2020) David R. Williams et al.   Nature Sustainability

Positive effects of liana cutting on seedlings are reduced during El Niño-induced drought

(2019) Michael J. O'Brien et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon

(2019) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Potential for low-cost carbon dioxide removal through tropical reforestation

(2019) Jonah Busch et al.   Nature Climate Change

Better restoration policies are needed to conserve mangrove ecosystems

(2019) Shing Yip Lee et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Mangrove area and propagule number planting targets produce sub-optimal rehabilitation and afforestation outcomes

(2019) Dominic C.J. Wodehouse et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Mangroves shelter coastal economic activity from cyclones

(2019) Jacob P. Hochard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global loss of climate connectivity in tropical forests

(2019) Rebecca A. Senior et al.   Nature Climate Change

Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes

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

Land tenure considerations are key to successful mangrove restoration

(2019) Catherine E. Lovelock et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The State of the World's Mangrove Forests: Past, Present, and Future

(2019) Daniel A. Friess et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Secondary forest fragments offer important carbon‐biodiversity co‐benefits

(2019) Fabio A. R. Matos et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

The Trouble with Trees: Afforestation Plans for Africa

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

How afforestation affects the water cycle in drylands: A process‐based comparative analysis

(2019) Kai Schwärzel et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Afforestation for climate change mitigation: Potentials, risks and trade‐offs

(2019) Jonathan C. Doelman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate-driven regime shifts in a mangrove–salt marsh ecotone over the past 250 years

(2019) Kyle C. Cavanaugh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantifying the impacts of defaunation on natural forest regeneration in a global meta-analysis

(2019) Charlie J. Gardner et al.   Nature Communications

The future of Blue Carbon science

(2019) Peter I. Macreadie et al.   Nature Communications

Private funding is essential to leverage forest and landscape restoration at global scales

(2019) Sara Löfqvist et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Assessing the growth and climate sensitivity of secondary forests in highly deforested Amazonian landscapes

(2019) Fernando Elias et al.   ECOLOGY

Climate-smart agroforestry: Faidherbia albida trees buffer wheat against climatic extremes in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia

(2018) Tesfaye Shiferaw Sida et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Crop vs. tree: Can agronomic management reduce trade-offs in tree-crop interactions?

(2018) Tesfaye Shiferaw Sida et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Tree plantations displacing native forests: The nature and drivers of apparent forest recovery on former croplands in Southwestern China from 2000 to 2015

(2018) Fangyuan Hua et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Networked and embedded scientific experiments will improve restoration outcomes

(2018) Nicholas JC Gellie et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Forest landscape restoration for livelihoods and well-being

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

Resilience and restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and grassy woodlands

(2018) Elise Buisson et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Actively restoring resilience in selectively logged tropical forests

(2018) Gianluca R. Cerullo et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Effect of diversity on growth, mortality, and loss of resilience to extreme climate events in a tropical planted forest experiment

(2018) Chantal Hutchison et al.   Scientific Reports

Why do smallholder farmers dis-adopt conservation agriculture? Insights from Malawi

(2018) Edna Chinseu et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

The contributions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ecological restoration

(2018) Victoria Reyes-García et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Strategic approaches to restoring ecosystems can triple conservation gains and halve costs

(2018) Bernardo B. N. Strassburg et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Enset in Ethiopia: a poorly characterized but resilient starch staple

(2018) James S Borrell et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Effects of silvicultural intensification on timber yields, carbon dynamics, and tree species composition in a dipterocarp forest in Kalimantan, Indonesia: An individual-tree-based model simulation

(2017) Ruslandi et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Abandoned pastures cannot spontaneously recover the attributes of old-growth savannas

(2017) Mário G. B. Cava et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention

(2017) David Tilman et al.   NATURE

Titling indigenous communities protects forests in the Peruvian Amazon

(2017) Allen Blackman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Natural climate solutions

(2017) Bronson W. Griscom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cash for carbon: A randomized trial of payments for ecosystem services to reduce deforestation

(2017) Seema Jayachandran et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2017) Renato Crouzeilles et al.   Science Advances

The biodiversity cost of carbon sequestration in tropical savanna

(2017) Rodolfo C. R. Abreu et al.   Science Advances

Conservation performance of different conservation governance regimes in the Peruvian Amazon

(2017) Judith Schleicher et al.   Scientific Reports

Accelerating tropical forest restoration through the selective removal of pioneer species

(2016) Tom Swinfield et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A global meta-analysis on the ecological drivers of forest restoration success

(2016) Renato Crouzeilles et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2016) Fangyuan Hua et al.   Nature Communications

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

Global progress toward sustainable forest management

(2015) Kenneth G. MacDicken et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The vulnerability of Indo-Pacific mangrove forests to sea-level rise

(2015) Catherine E. Lovelock et al.   NATURE

Climate and Pest-Driven Geographic Shifts in Global Coffee Production: Implications for Forest Cover, Biodiversity and Carbon Storage

(2015) Ainhoa Magrach et al.   PLoS One

Tropical reforestation and climate change: beyond carbon

(2015) Bruno Locatelli et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

The potential of small Eucalyptus plantations in farmscapes to foster native woody plant diversity: local and landscape constraints

(2015) Habte Telila et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Gender and ecological restoration: time to connect the dots

(2015) Nicky Broeckhoven et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Testing Chronosequences through Dynamic Approaches: Time and Site Effects on Tropical Dry Forest Succession

(2014) Francisco Mora et al.   BIOTROPICA

Testing a silvicultural recommendation: Brazil nut responses 10 years after liana cutting

(2014) Karen A. Kainer et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Loss of frugivore seed dispersal services under climate change

(2014) Karel Mokany et al.   Nature Communications

Cheap carbon and biodiversity co-benefits from forest regeneration in a hotspot of endemism

(2014) James J. Gilroy et al.   Nature Climate Change

Targeting global conservation funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines

(2013) A. Waldron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Governance regime and location influence avoided deforestation success of protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon

(2013) C. Nolte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecosystem Restoration is Now a Global Priority: Time to Roll up our Sleeves

(2013) James Aronson et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Fodder trees for improving livestock productivity and smallholder livelihoods in Africa

(2013) Steven Franzel et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

(2011) Luke Gibson et al.   NATURE

When and where to actively restore ecosystems?

(2010) K.D. Holl 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

Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s

(2010) H. K. Gibbs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate change: helping nature survive the human response

(2010) Will R. Turner et al.   Conservation Letters

Evergreen Agriculture: a robust approach to sustainable food security in Africa

(2010) Dennis Philip Garrity et al.   Food Security