Succession is a fundamental concept in ecology because it indicates how species
populations, communities, and ecosystems change over time on new substrate or after a …

A major global effort to enable cost‐effective natural regeneration is needed to achieve
ambitious forest and landscape restoration goals. Natural forest regeneration can potentially …

Tropical forests disappear rapidly because of deforestation, yet they have the potential to
regrow naturally on abandoned lands. We analyze how 12 forest attributes recover during …

Is active restoration the best approach to achieve ecological restoration success (the return
to a reference condition, that is, old-growth forest) when compared to natural regeneration in …

Hundreds of millions of hectares of cropland have been abandoned globally since 1950 due
to demographic, economic, and environmental changes. This abandonment has been seen …

Old‐growth tropical forests are being extensively deforested and fragmented worldwide. Yet
forest recovery through succession has led to an expansion of secondary forests in human …

Given the substantial contributions of forest biodiversity and ecosystem services to society,
forest sciences have a large potential to contribute to the integrity and sustainability of our …

Habitat loss and fragmentation has long been considered the primary cause for biodiversity
loss and ecosystem degradation worldwide, and is a key research topic in landscape …

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 …

Secondary forests are increasingly important components of human‐modified landscapes in
the tropics. Successional pathways, however, can vary enormously across and within …