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

When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration

(2016) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   AMBIO

The potential for automating assisted natural regeneration of tropical forest ecosystems

(2016) Stephen Elliott   BIOTROPICA

Natural regeneration in the context of large-scale forest and landscape restoration in the tropics

(2016) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   BIOTROPICA

Impacts of climate variability on tree demography in second growth tropical forests: the importance of regional context for predicting successional trajectories

(2016) María Uriarte et al.   BIOTROPICA

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

Roles of non-native species in large-scale regeneration of moist tropical forests on anthropogenic grassland

(2016) Carla P. Catterall   BIOTROPICA

Natural regeneration and biodiversity: a global meta-analysis and implications for spatial planning

(2016) Agnieszka E. Latawiec et al.   BIOTROPICA

Natural forest regeneration and ecological restoration in human-modified tropical landscapes

(2016) Miguel Martínez-Ramos et al.   BIOTROPICA

Co-benefits of biodiversity and carbon sequestration from regenerating secondary forests in the Philippine uplands: implications for forest landscape restoration

(2016) Sharif A. Mukul et al.   BIOTROPICA

Ecological outcomes and livelihood benefits of community-managed agroforests and second growth forests in Southeast Brazil

(2016) Saulo E. X. Franco de Souza et al.   BIOTROPICA

Scaling up farmer-managed natural regeneration in Africa to restore degraded landscapes

(2016) Chris Reij et al.   BIOTROPICA

Impacts of large-scale forest restoration on socioeconomic status and local livelihoods: what we know and do not know

(2016) Cristina Adams 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

Targeted reforestation could reverse declines in connectivity for understory birds in a tropical habitat corridor

(2016) Matthew E. Fagan et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

International trade, and land use intensification and spatial reorganization explain Costa Rica’s forest transition

(2016) I Jadin et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Integrating plant- and animal-based perspectives for more effective restoration of biodiversity

(2016) Clive McAlpine et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

(2016) Lourens Poorter et al.   NATURE

Anthropogenic disturbances jeopardize biodiversity conservation within tropical rainforest reserves

(2016) Miguel Martínez-Ramos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quandaries of a decade-long restoration experiment trying to reduce invasive species: beat them, join them, give up, or start over?

(2016) Susan Cordell et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

A 70-year perspective on tropical forest regeneration

(2016) Sawaid Abbas et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A Policy-Driven Knowledge Agenda for Global Forest and Landscape Restoration

(2016) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   Conservation Letters

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

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

Making dispersal syndromes and networks useful in tropical conservation and restoration

(2016) Henry F. Howe   Global Ecology and Conservation

Metropolitanization and Forest Recovery in Southern Brazil: a Multiscale Analysis of the Florianópolis City-Region, Santa Catarina State, 1970 to 2005

(2016) Sandra R. Baptista   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Enrichment Planting in Secondary Forests: a Promising Clean Development Mechanism to Increase Terrestrial Carbon Sinks

(2016) Alain Paquette et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Tropical secondary forests regenerating after shifting cultivation in the Philippines uplands are important carbon sinks

(2016) Sharif A. Mukul et al.   Scientific Reports

The farmer as a landscape steward: Comparing local understandings of landscape stewardship, landscape values, and land management actions

(2015) Christopher M. Raymond et al.   AMBIO

Atlantic Forest spontaneous regeneration at landscape scale

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

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

Spatial Priorities for Restoring Biodiverse Carbon Forests

(2015) Josie Carwardine et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Amazon Rain Forest Succession: Stochasticity or Land-Use Legacy?

(2015) Rita de Cássia Guimarães Mesquita et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Slow recovery of tropical old-field rainforest regrowth and the value and limitations of active restoration

(2015) Luke P. Shoo et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Demographic drivers of tree biomass change during secondary succession in northeastern Costa Rica

(2015) Danaë M. A. Rozendaal et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Seed dispersal limitations shift over time in tropical forest restoration

(2015) J. Leighton Reid et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Reforestation with four native tree species after abandoned gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon

(2015) Francisco Román-Dañobeytia et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Biomass is the main driver of changes in ecosystem process rates during tropical forest succession

(2015) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   ECOLOGY

Carbon farming via assisted natural regeneration as a cost-effective mechanism for restoring biodiversity in agricultural landscapes

(2015) Megan C. Evans et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Natural establishment of indigenous trees under planted nuclei: A study from a clear-felled pine plantation in an afrotropical rain forest

(2015) T. Piiroinen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Creating space for large-scale restoration in tropical agricultural landscapes

(2015) Agnieszka E Latawiec et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A landscape triage approach: combining spatial and temporal dynamics to prioritize restoration and conservation

(2015) Danielle I. Rappaport et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Evidence for arrested succession in a liana-infested Amazonian forest

(2015) Blaise Tymen et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Loss of secondary-forest resilience by land-use intensification in the Amazon

(2015) Catarina C. Jakovac et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Tropical forest regeneration following land abandonment is driven by primary rainforest distribution in an old pastoral region

(2015) Sean Sloan et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Animal-dispersed pioneer trees enhance the early regeneration in Atlantic Forest restoration plantations

(2015) Ricardo Augusto Gorne Viani et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

Future directions for forest restoration in Hawai‘i

(2015) James B. Friday et al.   NEW FORESTS

Successional dynamics in Neotropical forests are as uncertain as they are predictable

(2015) Natalia Norden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The socioecological complexity of ecological restoration in Mexico

(2015) Eliane Ceccon et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Establishment of tree seedlings in the understory of restoration plantations: natural regeneration and enrichment plantings

(2015) Maria Isabel F. Bertacchi et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Passive restoration can be an effective strategy: a reply to Prach and del Moral (2015)

(2015) Rakan A. Zahawi et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Increasing human dominance of tropical forests

(2015) S. L. Lewis et al.   SCIENCE

Engaging Stakeholders: Assessing Accuracy of Participatory Mapping of Land Cover in Panama

(2015) Gerardo Vergara-Asenjo et al.   Conservation Letters

Challenges and Prospects for Scaling-up Ecological Restoration to Meet International Commitments: Colombia as a Case Study

(2015) Carolina Murcia et al.   Conservation Letters

A role for tropical forests in stabilizing atmospheric CO2

(2015) R. A. Houghton et al.   Nature Climate Change

Invasive Trees in Singapore: Are they a Threat to Native Forests?

(2015) Le T. P. Nghiem et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Governing a pioneer program on payment for watershed services: Stakeholder involvement, legal frameworks and early lessons from the Atlantic forest of Brazil

(2015) Ryan C. Richards et al.   Ecosystem Services

Carbon stocks and changes in tropical secondary forests of southern Mexico

(2014) Deb R. Aryal et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Land-use Change Dynamics, Soil Type and Species Forming Mono-dominant Patches: the Case ofPteridium aquilinumin a Neotropical Rain Forest Region

(2014) Ireri Suazo-Ortuño et al.   BIOTROPICA

The relationship between tree biodiversity and biomass dynamics changes with tropical forest succession

(2014) Jesse R. Lasky et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Using ecological memory as an indicator to monitor the ecological restoration of four forest plantations in subtropical China

(2014) Zhongyu Sun et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Use and cultivation of plants that yield products other than timber from South Asian tropical forests, and their potential in forest restoration

(2014) M.S. Ashton 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

Perturbations in the carbon budget of the tropics

(2014) John Grace et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sustainable harvesting of non-timber forest products based on ecological and economic criteria

(2014) Juan C. Hernández-Barrios et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

How good are tropical forest patches for ecosystem services provisioning?

(2014) Silvio F. B. Ferraz et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Woody Species Regeneration in Atlantic Forest Restoration Sites Depends on Surrounding Landscape

(2014) Lya Carolina da Silva Mariano Pereira et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

Landscape Context Mediates Avian Habitat Choice in Tropical Forest Restoration

(2014) J. Leighton Reid et al.   PLoS One

Land cover dynamics in Osa Region, Costa Rica: secondary forest is here to stay

(2014) Nur Algeet-Abarquero et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Hidden Costs of Passive Restoration

(2014) Rakan A. Zahawi et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Cracking Brazil's Forest Code

(2014) B. Soares-Filho et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Challenges of Governing Second-Growth Forests: A Case Study from the Brazilian Amazonian State of Pará

(2014) Ima Vieira et al.   Forests

Redefining Secondary Forests in the Mexican Forest Code: Implications for Management, Restoration, and Conservation

(2014) Francisco Román-Dañobeytia et al.   Forests

From Target to Implementation: Perspectives for the International Governance of Forest Landscape Restoration

(2014) Till Pistorius et al.   Forests

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

(2014) Severino Pinto et al.   Forests

Viewing forests through the lens of complex systems science

(2014) Elise Filotas et al.   Ecosphere

Altitudinal migration in bats: evidence, patterns, and drivers

(2013) Liam P. McGuire et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Quantifying ecological memory during forest succession: A case study from lower subtropical forest ecosystems in South China

(2013) Zhongyu Sun et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Community Monitoring for REDD+: International Promises and Field Realities

(2013) Finn Danielsen et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

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

Cultural drivers of reforestation in tropical forest groves of the Western Ghats of India

(2013) Shonil A. Bhagwat et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Ten principles for a landscape approach to reconciling agriculture, conservation, and other competing land uses

(2013) J. Sayer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Increasing tree cover while losing diverse natural forests in tropical Hainan, China

(2013) De-Li Zhai et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Selecting Species for Passive and Active Riparian Restoration in Southern Mexico

(2013) Paula Meli et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

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

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

A Framework to Optimize Biodiversity Restoration Efforts Based on Habitat Amount and Landscape Connectivity

(2013) Leandro R. Tambosi et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Reframing Community Forestry to Manage the Forest–Farm Interface

(2013) Peter Cronkleton et al.   Small-Scale Forestry

Making Tropical Succession and Landscape Reforestation Successful

(2013) Robin L. Chazdon   Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Resilience of an ancient tropical forest landscape to 7500years of environmental change

(2012) Shonil A. Bhagwat et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

(2012) T. Mitchell Aide et al.   BIOTROPICA

Role of eucalypt and other planted forests in biodiversity conservation and the provision of biodiversity-related ecosystem services

(2012) Eckehard G. Brockerhoff et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Depopulation of rural landscapes exacerbates fire activity in the western Amazon

(2012) M. Uriarte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Migratory bird species in young tropical forest restoration sites: effects of vegetation height, planting design, and season

(2011) CATHERINE A. LINDELL et al.   BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

Biophysical and Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Forest Transitions at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales

(2011) Charles B. Yackulic et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Potential Management of Chamaedorea seifrizii (Palmae), a Non-timber Forest Product from the Tropical Forest of Calakmul, Southeast Mexico1

(2011) Leonel Lopez-Toledo et al.   ECONOMIC BOTANY

Restoring forest landscapes for biodiversity conservation and rural livelihoods: A spatial optimisation model

(2011) Francesco Orsi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Spatial resilience: integrating landscape ecology, resilience, and sustainability

(2011) Graeme S. Cumming   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

(2011) Luke Gibson et al.   NATURE

The modularity of seed dispersal: differences in structure and robustness between bat– and bird–fruit networks

(2011) Marco Aurelio Ribeiro Mello et al.   OECOLOGIA

Understory Bird Communities in Amazonian Rainforest Fragments: Species Turnover through 25 Years Post-Isolation in Recovering Landscapes

(2011) Philip C. Stouffer et al.   PLoS One

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Restoration of ecosystem services and biodiversity: conflicts and opportunities

(2011) James M. Bullock et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation

(2010) William F. Laurance et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Seed rain under tree islands planted to restore degraded lands in a tropical agricultural landscape

(2010) R. J. Cole et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Secondary Forests on Anthropogenic Soils of the Middle Madeira River: Valuation, Local Knowledge, and Landscape Domestication in Brazilian Amazonia

(2010) André Braga Junqueira et al.   ECONOMIC BOTANY

Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Restoration Using the Clean Development Mechanism: A Case Study from Humbo, Ethiopia

(2010) Douglas R. Brown et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Restoration of dry tropical forests in Central America: A review of pattern and process

(2010) Heather P. Griscom et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Large-scale ecological restoration of high-diversity tropical forests in SE Brazil

(2010) Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

When and where to actively restore ecosystems?

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

Forest Recovery in Newly Abandoned Pastures in Southern Brazil: Implications for the Atlantic Rain Forest Resilience

(2010) Kwok Chiu Cheung et al.   Natureza & Conservacao

Cost-effectiveness of dryland forest restoration evaluated by spatial analysis of ecosystem services

(2010) J. C. Birch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Planting Seedlings in Tree Islands Versus Plantations as a Large-Scale Tropical Forest Restoration Strategy

(2010) Karen D. Holl et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Degrading uplands in the rainforest region of Madagascar: Fallow biomass, nutrient stocks, and soil nutrient availability

(2009) Erika Styger et al.   AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS

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

Neotropical Forest Conservation, Agricultural Intensification, and Rural Out-migration: The Mexican Experience

(2009) Luis García-Barrios et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Synthesis: Land Transitions in the Tropics

(2009) María Uriarte et al.   BIOTROPICA

Small Tent-Roosting Bats Promote Dispersal of Large-Seeded Plants in a Neotropical Forest

(2009) Felipe P. L. Melo et al.   BIOTROPICA

The Potential for Species Conservation in Tropical Secondary Forests

(2009) ROBIN L. CHAZDON et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Natural Regeneration in Plantations of Native Trees in Lowland Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Community Structure, Diversity, and Dispersal Syndromes

(2009) Jerônimo Boelsums Barreto Sansevero et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Beyond Reserves: A Research Agenda for Conserving Biodiversity in Human-modified Tropical Landscapes

(2008) Robin L. Chazdon et al.   BIOTROPICA

Integrating Agricultural Landscapes with Biodiversity Conservation in the Mesoamerican Hotspot

(2008) CELIA A. HARVEY et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Local Participation in Natural Resource Monitoring: a Characterization of Approaches

(2008) FINN DANIELSEN et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Deforestation and forest restoration in Guanacaste, Costa Rica: Putting conservation policies in context

(2008) J. Calvo-Alvarado et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Applying Indigenous Knowledge to the Restoration of Degraded Tropical Rain Forest Clearings Dominated by Bracken Fern

(2008) David Douterlungne et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Beyond Deforestation: Restoring Forests and Ecosystem Services on Degraded Lands

(2008) R. L. Chazdon   SCIENCE