Applied nucleation, mostly based upon planting tree islands, has been proposed as a cost‐
effective strategy to meet ambitious global forest and landscape restoration targets. We …

Ecological restoration of modified and degraded landscapes is an important challenge for
the 21st century, with potential for major gains in the recovery of biodiversity. However, there …

Natural regeneration of large-seeded, late-successional trees in fragmented tropical
landscapes can be strongly limited by a lack of seed dispersal resulting in the need for more …

Direct seeding has been considered a forest restoration option for centuries. Over the past
half century, the use of this practice has declined in developed countries as forest …

Ecological restoration has become an important technique for mitigating the human impacts
on natural vegetation. Planting seedlings is the most common approach to regain lost forest …

With the increasing need to restore former agricultural lands worldwide and in the tropics, in
particular, it is critical to explore different models for how to restore these lands in a cost …

Shifting cultivation has been attributed to causing large-scale deforestation and forest
degradation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers. This view has been embedded in many …

To increase the scale of restoration efforts, it is imperative to develop more cost-efficient
methods. Seedling planting is the most common strategy for active restoration in the tropics …

There is renewed interest in the use of native tree species in ecosystem restoration for their
biodiversity benefits. Growing native tree species in production systems (eg plantation …

Active restoration may be necessary to the recovery of degraded tropical dry forests, which
are highly threatened but relatively understudied compared to other forest ecosystems. A …