Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon

TAP West, J Börner, EO Sills… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) has gained
international attention over the past decade, as manifested in both United Nations policy …

Transitional forestry in New Zealand: re‐evaluating the design and management of forest systems through the lens of forest purpose

AG Jones, A Cridge, S Fraser, L Holt… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Forestry management worldwide has become increasingly effective at obtaining high timber
yields from productive forests. In New Zealand, a focus on improving an increasingly …

Globally relevant lessons from a long-term trial series testing universal hypothesis of the impacts of increasing biomass removal on site productivity and nutrient pools

LG Garrett, SJ Smaill, SL Addison… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
It is established that the long-term productivity of planted forests now and into the future
requires a consistent supply of nutrients from soil for sustained growth over multiple …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of priority areas for afforestation in the Loess Plateau region of China

J Sun, G Li, Y Zhang, W Qin, M Wang - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
China has led global greening processes over recent decades, however, a series of
negative impacts have inevitably emerged in some areas, especially on the Loess Plateau …

Promotion of afforestation in New Zealand's marginal agricultural lands through payments for environmental services

TAP West, JJ Monge, LJ Dowling, SJ Wakelin… - Ecosystem Services, 2020 - Elsevier
Several payments for environmental services (PES) schemes to promote large-scale
afforestation are currently operational in New Zealand. In addition, the country has the only …

Evaluating incentives to encourage native afforestation on private lands in Aotearoa–New Zealand

M Polyakov, P Edwards, G Kaine, M Burton… - Landscape and Urban …, 2024 - Elsevier
Native forest establishment is an important mechanism to sequester carbon, increase
biodiversity, prevent erosion, and improve water quality. Designing incentive programmes to …

The Importance of Spatial Configuration When Restoring Intensive Production Landscapes for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Multifunctionality

D Richards, TR Etherington, A Herzig, S Lavorel - Land, 2024 - mdpi.com
Intensive production landscapes provide low levels of many ecosystem services and support
limited biodiversity, so they require restoration to enhance their multifunctionality …

[HTML][HTML] Methodological issues with deforestation baselines compromise the integrity of carbon offsets from REDD+

TAP West, B Bomfim, BK Haya - Global Environmental Change, 2024 - Elsevier
The number of voluntary interventions seeking to generate carbon offsets by reducing
deforestation and forest degradation, generally known as REDD+ projects, has increased …

Integrating social media data and machine learning to analyse scenarios of landscape appreciation

DR Richards, S Lavorel - Ecosystem Services, 2022 - Elsevier
Cultural ecosystem services can be challenging to simulate, leading to their under-
representation in future scenario modelling to support decision-making. Here we use the …

Ecological effect of ecological engineering projects on low-temperature forest cover in Great Khingan Mountain, China

S Wang, R Zhong, L Liu, J Zhang - International Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The evaluation of ecological restoration projects can provide support for further
strengthening the efforts of ecological restoration work and implementing the strategic …