Although approximately three decades ago the ecological role of big-sized trees (also
known as either large, large-diameter, mega, oversized or big trees) has been recognized in …

Understanding the mechanisms of ecosystem services trade-offs and synergies is critical for
forest management. Plant functional traits provide an approach to identify the relationships …

Human societies face six existential challenges to their sustainable development. These
challenges have been previously addressed by a myriad of concepts such as soil …

Abstract Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have been an increasingly recognized framework
that uses naturally occurring processes to maximise the provisioning of ecosystem services …

Forest restoration mitigates climate change by removing CO 2 and storing C in terrestrial
ecosystems. However, incomplete information on C storage in restored tropical forests often …

This study analysed the influence of urbanisation on the expansion of surface urban heat
island intensities (SUHIIs) and the variability of biophysical parameters in twenty one major …

Although disturbance is considered a major driver of plant invasions across many systems,
our understanding of the mechanisms by which disturbance mediates understorey invasions …

The restoration of plants is effective for restoring ecosystems in eroded areas. Soil bacterial
communities play an important role in nutrient cycling. High-throughput sequencing …

Land-use change has negative impacts on the biodiversity of plants and animals. However,
we lack studies and/or information about the impacts of land-use change on the biodiversity …

Despite the potential of diversification strategies to achieve sustainability, diversified
systems such as agroforestry are still not widely implemented by farmers, which indicates …