Environmental legislation in many countries demands the rehabilitation of degraded areas
to minimize environmental impacts. Brazilian laws require the restitution of self-sustaining …

Governance challenges are frequently underestimated in forest landscape restoration.
Forest restoration practitioners are generally foresters or ecologists and their focus tends to …

Ecosystem restoration is gaining political and economic support worldwide, but its exact
targets and costs often remain unclear. A key issue, both for predicting restoration success …

Abstract Background Paris polyphylla Sm. is an important perennial medicinal plant of the
Himalayas that is increasingly being used in traditional medicines and pharmaceutical …

Extensive global estuarine wetland losses have prompted intensive focus on restoration of
these habitats. In California, substantial tracts of freshwater, brackish and tidal wetlands …

Increasing species regression speeds are one of the consequences of global warming,
which affect both rare and abundant species. However, long-term monitoring data are rarely …

The tips in the tree of life serve as foci for conservation and management, yet clear
delimitations are masked by inherent variance at the species–population interface. Analyses …

Understanding how protected species influence the population dynamics of each other is an
essential part of ecosystem‐based management. Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus …

Geography and climate have been the main drivers of evolution in recent geological epochs.
While new lineages of species have been formed in the last millions of years (speciation) …

Abstract The Endangered Species Act of 1973 continues to be the subject of intense political
acrimony. Opponents believe the law is a failure and call for significant changes, whereas …