A major global effort to enable cost‐effective natural regeneration is needed to achieve
ambitious forest and landscape restoration goals. Natural forest regeneration can potentially …

International agreements mandate the expansion of Earth's protected-area network as a
bulwark against the continued extinction of wild populations, species, and ecosystems. Yet …

Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives,
many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly …

Humans have elevated global extinction rates and thus lowered global scale species
richness. However, there is no a priori reason to expect that losses of global species …

Ecosystem restoration is one of the most promising strategies for conservation in the
Anthropocene. Within ecosystems, plant-animal interactions are critical to their functioning …

A primary goal of ecological restoration is to increase biodiversity in degraded ecosystems.
However, the success of restoration ecology is often assessed by measuring the response of …

Despite the existing large body of research on plant–animal interactions, plant research and
animal research are still relatively independent and asymmetrical in relation to disturbance …

Millions of hectares of land worldwide is in urgent need of restoration. However, many past
landscape and ecosystem restoration efforts are likely to have been less than effective …

Community ecology is frequently invoked as complementary to and useful for guiding
ecological restoration. While the conceptual literature is devoted to this unification, first‐hand …

Pioneer trees with fleshy fruits are typically planted in restoration projects to attract frugivores
as a mean to increase dispersal and accelerate forest regeneration. However, differences in …