Questions To select the best method to restore an ecosystem requires an understanding of
the various outcomes commonly achieved through different restoration techniques. What …

Applied nucleation, mostly based upon planting tree islands, has been proposed as a cost‐
effective strategy to meet ambitious global forest and landscape restoration targets. We …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

The pace of deforestation worldwide has necessitated the development of strategies that
restore forest cover quickly and efficiently. We review one potential strategy, applied …

The contribution of agroforestry systems (AFS) to enhance soil organic carbon (SOC)
storage in soil layers due to the presence of deep tree roots are of interest in the context of …

Steve Goosem has a background in protected area management and in botanical, soil and
wildlife ecological research. His first experience with rainforest restoration involved flood …

Active forest restoration typically involves planting trees over large areas; this practice is
costly, however, and establishing homogeneous plantations may favour the recruitment of a …

Natural regeneration of large-seeded, late-successional trees in fragmented tropical
landscapes can be strongly limited by a lack of seed dispersal resulting in the need for more …

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 …

Past studies have shown that tropical forest regeneration on degraded farmlands is initially
limited by lack of seed dispersal, but few studies have tracked changes in abundance and …