Terrestrial ecological restoration in China: identifying advances and gaps

Relationship between energy consumption, economic growth and environmental pollution in China

(2021) Jinhui Xiong et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

China’s three north shelter forest program: cost–benefit analysis and policy implications

(2021) Xinhao Suo et al.   ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions

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

Payoff from afforestation under the Three-North Shelter Forest Program

(2020) Shixiong Cao et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

A State Factor Model for Ecosystem Carbon–Water Relations

(2020) Toby M. Maxwell et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

General trends in freshwater ecological restoration practice in China over the past two decades: the driving factors and the evaluation of restoration outcome

(2020) Juan Wu et al.   Environmental Sciences Europe

The EMR-rural project: key techniques and devices development for rural environmental monitoring and remediation in China

(2020) Zhongli Chen et al.   Environmental Sciences Europe

Cost–Benefit Analysis of China’s Natural Forest Conservation Program

(2020) Zihao Ma et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

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

(2020) Robert Heilmayr et al.   Nature Sustainability

Ecological restoration impact on total terrestrial water storage

(2020) Meng Zhao et al.   Nature Sustainability

Soil carbon sequestration accelerated by restoration of grassland biodiversity

(2019) Yi Yang et al.   Nature Communications

Step back from the forest and step up to the Bonn Challenge: How a broad ecological perspective can promote successful landscape restoration

(2019) Vicky M. Temperton et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Potential for low-cost carbon dioxide removal through tropical reforestation

(2019) Jonah Busch et al.   Nature Climate Change

Vegetation dynamics and their effects on surface water-energy balance over the Three-North Region of China

(2019) Cuiling Deng et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Shifts in soil microbial community functional gene structure across a 61-year desert revegetation chronosequence

(2019) Yigang Hu et al.   GEODERMA

International principles and standards for the practice of ecological restoration. Second edition

(2019) George D. Gann et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Ecological restoration in Brazilian biomes: Identifying advances and gaps

(2019) Angélica Guerra et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Households' Willingness to Accept Improved Ecosystem Services and Influencing Factors: Application of Contingent Valuation Method in Bashang Plateau, Hebei Province, China

(2019) Xi Chu et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Variations in vegetative characteristics of Deyeuxia angustifolia wetlands following natural restoration in the Sanjiang Plain, China

(2018) Yu An et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Balancing trade-offs between ecosystem services in Germany’s forests under climate change

(2018) Martin Gutsch et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Ecological restoration by afforestation may increase groundwater depth and create potentially large ecological and water opportunity costs in arid and semiarid China

(2018) Chenxi Lu et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

A cost-benefit analysis of afforestation as a climate change adaptation measure to reduce flood risk

(2018) Ruth Dittrich et al.   Journal of Flood Risk Management

Comparing watershed afforestation and natural revegetation impacts on soil moisture in the semiarid Loess Plateau of China

(2018) Zongping Ren et al.   Scientific Reports

Satellite-Observed Major Greening and Biomass Increase in South China Karst During Recent Decade

(2018) Martin Brandt et al.   Earths Future

Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China

(2018) Yue Li et al.   Science Advances

Forest condition change, tenure reform, and government-funded eco-environmental programs in Northeast China

(2018) Wei Huang   FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS

China’s response to a national land-system sustainability emergency

(2018) Brett A. Bryan et al.   NATURE

Protect Third Pole's fragile ecosystem

(2018) Jie Liu et al.   SCIENCE

A win-win strategy for ecological restoration and biodiversity conservation in Southern China

(2017) Shixiong Cao et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Past and future carbon sequestration benefits of China’s grain for green program

(2017) Lei Deng et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Practices and opportunities of ecosystem service studies for ecological restoration in China

(2016) Shiliang Liu et al.   Sustainability Science

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

(2016) Xiaoming Feng et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

(2015) Joseph W. Veldman et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Conservation in Brazil needs to include non-forest ecosystems

(2015) Gerhard E. Overbeck et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Rocky desertification in Southwest China: Impacts, causes, and restoration

(2014) Zhongcheng Jiang et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Should we respect the historical reference as basis for the objective of forest restoration? A case study from Northeastern China

(2014) Jing Yao et al.   NEW FORESTS

Forest restoration, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2011) Raf Aerts et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Establishment of Markov successional model and its application for forest restoration reference in Southern China

(2010) Shao-Lin Peng et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Fragmentation of China’s landscape by roads and urban areas

(2010) Taian Li et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Development and testing of a sustainable environmental restoration policy on eradicating the poverty trap in China's Changting County

(2009) S. Cao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecological restoration for future sustainability in a changing environment

(2008) Young D. Choi et al.   ECOSCIENCE

Why Large-Scale Afforestation Efforts in China Have Failed To Solve the Desertification Problem

(2008) Shixiong Cao   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY