Urgent need for updating the slogan of global climate actions from “tree planting” to “restore native vegetation”

A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2

(2021) C. Terrer et al.   NATURE

The present and future of grassland restoration

(2021) Péter Török et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Time and space catch up with restoration programs that ignore ecosystem service trade-offs

(2021) Ruonan Li et al.   Science Advances

People plant trees for utility more often than for biodiversity or carbon

(2021) Meredith P. Martin et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Limited effects of tree planting on forest canopy cover and rural livelihoods in Northern India

(2021) Eric A. Coleman et al.   Nature Sustainability

Biome Awareness Disparity is BAD for tropical ecosystem conservation and restoration

(2021) Fernando A. O. Silveira et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Grassland ecosystem services: a systematic review of research advances and future directions

(2020) Yuanyuan Zhao et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Underground deserts below fertility islands? Woody species desiccate lower soil layers in sandy drylands

(2020) Csaba Tölgyesi et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Tree planting is not a simple solution

(2020) Karen D. Holl et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

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

Afforestation falls short as a biodiversity strategy

(2020) Susana Gómez-González et al.   SCIENCE

Misguided forest action in EU Biodiversity Strategy

(2020) Nuria Selva et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2020) Robert Heilmayr et al.   Nature Sustainability

Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth

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

Grasslands and savannahs in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration

(2020) Nigel Dudley et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

A research agenda for the restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas

(2020) Elise Buisson et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

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

Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

(2019) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   SCIENCE

The edge of two worlds: A new review and synthesis on Eurasian forest-steppes

(2018) László Erdős et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Experimental arid land afforestation in Central Anatolia, Turkey

(2018) Oktay Yildiz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Grasslands may be more reliable carbon sinks than forests in California

(2018) Pawlok Dass et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality

(2018) Peter Manning et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

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

(2018) Elise Buisson et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Humboldt and the reinvention of nature

(2018) Juli G. Pausas et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Afforestation, Subsequent Forest Fires and Provision of Hydrological Services: A Model-Based Analysis for a Mediterranean Mountainous Catchment

(2017) João Pedro Nunes et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

The underestimated biodiversity of tropical grassy biomes

(2016) Brett P. Murphy et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Clarifying the confusion: old-growth savannahs and tropical ecosystem degradation

(2016) Joseph W. Veldman   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models

(2015) W. R. L. Anderegg et al.   SCIENCE

Committing to ecological restoration

(2015) K. Suding et al.   SCIENCE

Forests in a water limited world under climate change

(2014) Csaba Mátyás et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

(2014) Nuno Carvalhais et al.   NATURE

Grassland restoration on former croplands in Europe: an assessment of applicability of techniques and costs

(2011) Péter Török et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The Global Extent and Determinants of Savanna and Forest as Alternative Biome States

(2011) A. C. Staver et al.   SCIENCE

Woody cover in African savannas: the role of resources, fire and herbivory

(2007) Mahesh Sankaran et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY