Global forest restoration targets have been set, yet policy makers and land managers lack
guiding principles on how to invest limited resources to achieve them. We conducted a meta …

Abstract Purpose of Review Resilience is a key concept to deal with an uncertain future in
forestry. In recent years, it has received increasing attention from both research and practice …

Ecosystem recovery from anthropogenic disturbances, either without human intervention or
assisted by ecological restoration, is increasingly occurring worldwide. As ecosystems …

Disturbances, such as fire and grazing, are often claimed to facilitate plant species richness
and plant invasions in particular, although empirical evidence is contradictory. We …

Environmental conditions that vary from year to year can be strong drivers of ecological
dynamics, including the composition of newly assembled communities. However, ecologists …

Disturbances are key drivers of plant community composition, structure, and function. Plant
functional traits, including life forms and reproductive strategies are critical to the resilience …

Climate controls vegetation distribution across the globe, and some vegetation types are
more vulnerable to climate change, whereas others are more resistant. Because resistance …

Altered fuels and climate change are transforming fire regimes in many of Earth's biomes.
Postfire reassembly of vegetation–paramount to C storage and biodiversity conservation …

Aquatic plant communities are frequently subjected to water level fluctuation. While many
experimental studies have examined effects of water level fluctuation on the growth of …

When an ecosystem undergoing restoration does not follow the desired trajectory,
management interventions may be warranted. Where the initial steps towards restoration …