Bright, Ryan M Cattaneo, Nicolas Antón-Fernández, Clara Eisner, Stephanie Astrup, Rasmus
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Environmental Research Letters
Forest restoration and improved forest management are seen as options to enhance terrestrial carbon dioxide removal in many regions, yet concerns surrounding their potentially adverse surface albedo impacts exist, particularly in high latitude and altitude regions. Such concerns are often based on generalized conclusions rooted in analyses carried ...
Hu, Minghui Zhu, Yiren Li, Jianling Yao, Xianyu Hu, Yuanliu Huang, Xiaolin Li, Yonghui Zhang, Deqiang Deng, Qi
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Environmental Research Letters
Due to increasing anthropogenic pressure, over half of the world’s tropical forests are reforested or afforested secondary forests or plantations. The recovery pace and potential of these forests depend largely on soil microbially-mediated biogeochemical cycling. Here we measured soil extracellular enzyme activities and quantified microbial metabol...
Schweizer, Daniella Cole, Rebecca J Werden, Leland K Cedeño, Gerald Quirós Rodriguez, David Navarro, Kassandra Esquivel, Jose Marcel Max, Simeon Chiriboga, Fidel E Zahawi, Rakan A
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With increased interest in forest restoration comes an urgent need to provide accurate, scalable, and cost‐effective monitoring tools. The ubiquity of smartphones has led to a surge in monitoring apps. We reviewed and assessed monitoring apps found through web searches and conversations with practitioners. We identified 42 apps that (1) automatical...
Guillemot, Joannès Muys, Bart
Abstract Tree monocultures constitute an increasing fraction of the global tree cover and are the dominant tree‐growing strategy of forest landscape restoration commitments. Their advantages to produce timber are well known, but their value for biodiversity is highly controversial and context dependent. Therefore, understanding whether, and in whic...
Broggio, Igor S Silva-Junior, Celso H L Nascimento, Marcelo T Villela, Dora M Aragão, Luiz E O C
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Environmental Research Letters
The Brazilian Atlantic Forest (AF) covers 13% of Brazil but retains only 26% of its original forest area. Utilizing a Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA), we generated 30 m spatial resolution fragmentation maps for old-growth and secondary forests across the AF. We quantified landscape fragmentation patterns and carbon (C) dynamics over 3...
Cerullo, Gianluca Worthington, Thomas Brancalion, Pedro Brandão, Joyce d'Albertas, Francisco Eyres, Alison Swinfield, Thomas Edwards, David Balmford, Andrew
Substantial global restoration commitments are occurring alongside a rapid expansion in land-hungry tropical commodities, including to supply increasing demand for wood products. Future commercial tree plantations may deliver high timber yields, shrinking the footprint of production forestry, but there is an as-yet unquantified risk that plantation...
Djiofack, B. Y. Beeckman, H. Bourland, N. Belanganayi, B. L. Laurent, F. Ilondea, B. A. Nsenga, L. Huart, A. Longwwango, M. M. Deklerck, V.
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peer reviewed / A large share of the global forest restoration potential is situated in artificial ‘unstable’ mesic African savannas, which could be restored to higher carbon and biodiversity states if protected from human-induced burning. However, uncertainty on recovery rates in protected unstable savannas impedes science-informed forest restorat...
Yan, Haoru Schmid, Bernhard Xu, Wubing Bongers, Franca J. Chen, Guoke Tang, Ting Wang, Zhiheng Svenning, Jens Christian Ma, Keping Liu, Xiaojuan
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Plot-scale experiments indicate that functional diversity (FD) plays a pivotal role in sustaining ecosystem functions such as net primary productivity (NPP). However, the relationships between functional diversity and NPP across larger scale under varying climatic conditions are sparsely studied, despite its significance for understanding forest–at...
Schimetka, Lorenz R. Ruggiero, Patricia G.C. Carvalho, Raquel L. Behagel, Jelle Metzger, Jean Paul Nascimento, Nathália Chaves, Rafael B. Brancalion, Pedro H.S. Rodrigues, Ricardo R. Krainovic, Pedro M.
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The achievement of international forest restoration goals requires economically viable land-use options. The Brazilian Atlantic Forest is a priority area for ecosystem restoration, as it is widely deforested to make place for intensive agriculture and one of the most threatened biodiversity hotspots in the world. We systematically reviewed existing...
Monteza-Moreno, Claudio M. Grote, Mark N. Hall, Jefferson S. Jansen, Patrick A.
Reforestation projects in the tropics often consist of plantations, typically monocultures of non-native timber species. It has been questioned whether such plantations are suitable as wildlife habitat, but empirical evidence is scarce, especially on plantations embedded on highly disturbed landscapes. Here, we compare species richness and occupanc...
