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 …

Ecosystems are under increasing pressure from human activities, with land use and land‐
use change at the forefront of the drivers that provoke global and regional biodiversity loss …

Forest restoration is being scaled up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and
biodiversity benefits; however, there is a lack of rigorous comparison of cobenefit delivery …

A plethora of articles suggest that tree planting can overcome a host of environmental
problems, including climate change, water shortages, and the sixth mass extinction (1–3) …

Purpose Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) translates emissions and resource extractions
into a limited number of environmental impact scores by means of so-called characterisation …

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 …

Life cycle assessment (LCA) enables the assessment of the pressure a certain (production)
process places on the environment. The assessment comprises all phases needed to …

Two billion ha have been identified globally for forest restoration. Our meta-analysis
encompassing 221 study landscapes worldwide reveals forest restoration enhances …

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

Habitat degradation and subsequent biodiversity damage often take place far from the place
of consumption because of globalization and the increasing level of international trade …