The forest restoration challenge (globally 2 billion ha) and the prospect of changing climate
with increasing frequency of extreme events argues for approaching restoration from a …

Background Forest landscape restoration (FLR) has been adopted by governments and
practitioners across the globe to mitigate and adapt to climate change and restore ecological …

We present a review of more than 30 years of ecological restoration in the Brazilian part of
the Atlantic Forest. Based on what has been done in this biome, we try to summarize the …

The complex interactions among endangered ecosystems, landowners' interests, and
different models of land tenure and use, constitute an important series of challenges for …

Understanding tropical forest succession is critical for the development of tropical forest
conservation strategies worldwide, given that tropical secondary forests can be considered …

Forest restoration by planting trees often accelerates succession, but the trajectories toward
reference ecosystems have rarely been evaluated. Using a chronosequence (4–53 years) of …

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 …

With the increasing need to restore former agricultural lands worldwide and in the tropics, in
particular, it is critical to explore different models for how to restore these lands in a cost …

Ethnopharmacological relevance This study aims to document the traditional knowledge on
the use of medicinal plants in the neighborhood of the protected area “Parque Estadual da …

Neotropical rainforests are global biodiversity hotspots and are challenging to restore. A
core part of this challenge is the very long recovery trajectory of the system: recovery of …