Positive site selection bias in meta-analyses comparing natural regeneration to active forest restoration

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

(2017) Renato Crouzeilles 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

Recovery of floristic diversity and basal area in natural forest regeneration and planted plots in a Costa Rican wet forest

(2016) Alex C. Gilman et al.   BIOTROPICA

Balancing economic costs and ecological outcomes of passive and active restoration in agricultural landscapes: the case of Brazil

(2016) Pedro H. S. Brancalion et al.   BIOTROPICA

When does seed limitation matter for scaling up reforestation from patches to landscapes?

(2016) T. Trevor Caughlin et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

Natural regeneration in a degraded tropical peatland, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia: Implications for forest restoration

(2014) Grace V. Blackham et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Factors explaining variability in woody above-ground biomass accumulation in restored tropical forest

(2014) Karen D. Holl et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Vegetation response to removal of non-native feral pigs from Hawaiian tropical montane wet forest

(2013) Rebecca J. Cole et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

A meta-analytical global comparison of aboveground biomass accumulation between tropical secondary forests and monoculture plantations

(2013) Mark T.L. Bonner et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Natural Experiment Demonstrates That Bird Loss Leads to Cessation of Dispersal of Native Seeds from Intact to Degraded Forests

(2013) Eleanor M. Caves et al.   PLoS One

Stimulating Natural Regeneration of Tropical Forest on Degraded Land: Approaches, Outcomes, and Information Gaps

(2013) Luke P. Shoo et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Soil microbial properties and temporal stability in degraded and restored lands of Northeast Brazil

(2013) Ademir Sérgio Ferreira Araújo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Bird community shifts related to different forest restoration efforts: A case study from a managed habitat matrix in Mexico

(2010) Ian MacGregor-Fors et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Vertebrate population responses to reduced-impact logging in a neotropical forest

(2010) Jake Bicknell et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

When and where to actively restore ecosystems?

(2010) K.D. Holl et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Response of Ants and Their Seed Removal in Rehabilitation Areas and Forests at El Cerrejón Coal Mine in Colombia

(2010) Yamileth Dominguez-Haydar et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Rapid Recovery of Biomass, Species Richness, and Species Composition in a Forest Chronosequence in Northeastern Costa Rica

(2009) Susan G. Letcher et al.   BIOTROPICA