Prochazka, Petr Abrham, Josef Cerveny, Jaroslav Kobera, Lukas Sanova, Petra Benes, Daniel Fink, Julia-Maria Jiraskova, Eliska Primasova, Simona Soukupova, Jana
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Introduction This paper investigates the links between deforestation and key economic, social, environmental, and geographical variables. We focus on per capita GDP, total forest cover, and the population across a diverse sample of countries from five continents for the last three decades. Methods This study utilizes a regression model using panel ...
Dieng, Moussa Mbow, Cheikh Skole, David L. Ba, Baba
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Frontiers in Environmental Science
Prior to the UN Policy framework REDD+, the Government of Senegal (GoS) initiated for many decades, important land management programs to address deforestation and land degradation which affects the country’s food production, ecosystem benefits and livelihoods. A lot of investment and policies have been implemented in various ecologies to improve t...
Säumel, Ina Alvarez, Jorge Ramírez, Leonardo R. Barra, Marcos
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
South American grasslands, socio-ecological systems used heavily for a long time, are currently experiencing dramatic land-use changes due to implementation of large-scale afforestation and agro-industrial cash crops. Applying the conceptual framework of “Multifunctional and sustainable productive landscapes” to Uruguay, we explored the impacts on ...
Lee, Heera Pugh, Thomas A M Patacca, Marco Seo, Bumsuk Winkler, Karina Rounsevell, Mark
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Environmental Research Letters
The EU Biodiversity strategy aims to plant 3 billion trees by 2030, in order to improve ecosystem restoration and biodiversity. Here, we compute the land area that would be required to support this number of newly planted trees by taking account of different tree species and planting regimes across the EU member states. We find that 3 billion trees...
Lee, Heera Pugh, Thomas A.M. Patacca, Marco Seo, Bumsuk Winkler, Karina Rounsevell, Mark
The EU Biodiversity strategy aims to plant 3 billion trees by 2030, in order to improve ecosystem restoration and biodiversity. Here, we compute the land area that would be required to support this number of newly planted trees by taking account of different tree species and planting regimes across the EU member states. We find that 3 billion trees...
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The growing demand for native planting material in ecological restoration and rehabilitation for agro-silvo-pastoral ecosystems has resulted in a major global industry in their sourcing, multiplication, and sale. Plant tissue culture is used for producing high-quality, disease-free, and true-to-type plants at a fast rate. Micropropagation can help ...
Yang, Hongling Li, Yulin Zhan, Jin Bao, Chelmeg Luo, Yongqing
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Frontiers in Environmental Science
Litter decomposition is the main driver of nutrient cycling process in terrestrial ecosystems. Afforestation completely altered vegetation composition and litter species, disrupting the long-term carbon balance in grassland ecosystem. However, there is a lack of understanding of how litter mixing effect (LME) affects soil carbon cycling in afforest...
Pei, Jie Wang, Li Huang, Huabing Wang, Lei Li, Wang Wang, Xiaoyue Yang, Hui Cao, Jianhua Fang, Huajun Niu, Zheng
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Frontiers in Plant Science
Plant growth and its changes over space and time are effective indicators for signifying ecosystem health. However, large uncertainties remain in characterizing and attributing vegetation changes in the ecologically fragile South China Karst region, since most existing studies were conducted at a coarse spatial resolution or covered limited time sp...
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Nitrogen is a key factor influencing ecosystem structure and function in reforestation, but knowledge of ecosystem nitrogen accumulation through reforestation with mixed species is limited. Especially in the dry-hot valley of the Jinsha River, no studies cover total ecosystem nitrogen accumulation in mature plantations and its allocation for diffic...
Yin, Huiyan Yu, Bo Zhang, Zhiwei Jia, Lizhi Xue, Jie Chen, Xiaoqiang Wang, Shunke Han, Jiahua Xing, Zhen
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Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Soil quality evaluation is the foundation for understanding the current situation of soil quality and promoting the sustainable utilization of land resources. However, the evaluation of the impacts of the different long-term afforestation timescales on the soil quality in a typical watershed valley area is still insufficient. Here, based on the soi...
