Forest restoration and hydrology

J Jones, D Ellison, S Ferraz, A Lara, X Wei… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Forest restoration aims to increase forest cover, structure, function, and/or species
composition, and it influences hydrology through the partitioning of precipitation into …

The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches

F Hua, LA Bruijnzeel, P Meli, PA Martin, J Zhang… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Forest restoration is being scaled up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and
biodiversity benefits; however, there is a lack of rigorous comparison of cobenefit delivery …

Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment

T Newbold, LN Hudson, AP Arnell, S Contu… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Land use and related pressures have reduced local terrestrial biodiversity, but it is unclear
how the magnitude of change relates to the recently proposed planetary boundary (“safe …

Future effects of climate and land-use change on terrestrial vertebrate community diversity under different scenarios

T Newbold - Proceedings of the Royal Society b, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Land-use and climate change are among the greatest threats facing biodiversity, but
understanding their combined effects has been hampered by modelling and data limitations …

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

T Newbold, LN Hudson, SLL Hill, S Contu, I Lysenko… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Human activities, especially conversion and degradation of habitats, are causing global
biodiversity declines. How local ecological assemblages are responding is less clear—a …

Does plantation forestry restore biodiversity or create green deserts? A synthesis of the effects of land-use transitions on plant species richness

LL Bremer, KA Farley - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2010 - Springer
Plantations are established for a variety of reasons including wood production, soil and
water conservation, and more recently, carbon sequestration. The effect of this growing land …

The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

LN Hudson, T Newbold, S Contu, SLL Hill… - Ecology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as
habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global …

Spread and impact of introduced conifers in South America: lessons from other southern hemisphere regions

D Simberloff, MA Nuñez, NJ Ledgard… - Austral …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The history of conifers introduced earlier elsewhere in the southern hemisphere suggests
that recent invasions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay are likely to increase in number …

The database of the PREDICTS (projecting responses of ecological diversity in changing terrestrial systems) project

LN Hudson, T Newbold, S Contu, SLL Hill… - Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing
Terrestrial Systems (https://www. nhm. ac. uk/our-science/our-work/biodiversity/predicts …

Fire as a driver of pine invasions in the Southern Hemisphere: a review

J Franzese, E Raffaele - Biological Invasions, 2017 - Springer
Contrasting evidence in the degree of post-fire conifer invasion reported for different regions
of the Southern Hemisphere (SH) raises questions about the role of fire as a presumed …