Soils under natural, tropical forests provide essential ecosystem services that have been
shaped by long-term soil–vegetation feedbacks. However, deforestation of tropical forest …

The recovery of soil conditions is crucial for successful ecosystem restoration and, hence, for
achieving the goals of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Here, we assess how …

Anthropogenic land use change (LUC) affects soil quality and the global carbon (C) pool.
Such LUC is a potential threat for forest ecosystems because it can alter soil biome and …

Afforestation is known as an available mitigation activity to climate change because it
causes sequestration of CO2 from the atmosphere and stores it as the living biomass and …

Background Tropical forests are threatened by intensifying natural and anthropogenic
disturbance regimes. Disturbances reduce tree cover and leave the organic topsoil …

The tropics cover 8.2 billion hectares or approximately 40% of the world's land area. These
regions are characterized by a large portion of the world's rapidly increasing population …

Soil degradation is one of the most serious environmental problems. Soils represent a
resource that is essential to life on this planet (Hillel, 2001). They are the interface between …

Secondary forests are gaining increased importance in tropical landscapes and have
recently been reported to act as potential belowground carbon sinks. While economic …

Afforestation, the conversion of non‐forested lands to forest plantations, can sequester
atmospheric carbon dioxide, but the rapid growth and harvesting of biomass may deplete …

Land‐use changes are the second largest source of human‐induced greenhouse gas
emission, mainly due to deforestation in the tropics and subtropics. CO2 emissions result …