Reforestation is an important tool for reducing or reversing biodiversity loss and mitigating
climate change. However, there are many potential compromises between the structural …

Much information on restoration and management exists for wet tropical forests of Central
America but comparatively little work has been done in the dry forests of this region. Such …

Tropical forests are being cleared at an alarming rate although our understanding of their
ecology is limited. It is therefore essential to design restoration experiments that both further …

Biodiversity offsets are seen as a policy mechanism to balance development and
conservation goals. Many offset schemes employ habitat restoration in one area to recreate …

Patterns of plant and animal diversity were studied in a 10-year-old native species
reforestation area at a bauxite-mined site at Porto Trombetas in western Pará State, Brazil …

Aim To analyse global patterns in soil carbon (C) in tropical successional and plantation
forests based on climate, forest age, former land use and soil type to determine factors …

Abandoned pastures and secondary forests are increasingly prominent features of tropical
landscapes. Forest regrowth on abandoned pastures is generally slow and virtually limited …

1. Fragmentation of tropical forest is accelerating at the same time that already cleared land
reverts to secondary growth. Fragments inexorably lose deep-forest species to local …

Large-scale, landscape-level restoration actions are widely implemented but receive little
attention from academic ecologists. We review the methods used to assess the role of these …

In Australia, as in many countries, there has been a shift in timber production from native
forests to plantations. While plantations are primarily considered an efficient means of …