BACKGROUND Human actions have long been known to drive declines in nature, and there
is growing awareness of how globalization means that these drivers increasingly act at a …

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 …

In the face of major shifts in temperature and precipitation, some conventional strategies that
help people to cope or incrementally adapt to climate change may become inappropriate in …

For millennia, Amazonian peoples have managed forest resources, modifying the natural
environment in subtle and persistent ways. Legacies of past human occupation are striking …

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

A central challenge for sustainability is how to preserve forest ecosystems and the services
that they provide us while enhancing food production. This challenge for developing …

The concept of land use transition highlights that land use change is non-linear and is
associated with other societal and biophysical system changes. A transition in land use is …

This paper assesses the role of protected and community managed forests for the long term
maintenance of forest cover in the tropics. Through a meta-analysis of published case …

Although global rates of tropical deforestation remain alarmingly high, they have decreased
over the period 2000–2010, and a handful of tropical developing countries have recently …

Agriculture is facing up to an increasing number of challenges, including the need to ensure
various ecosystem services and to resolve apparent conflicts between them. One of the …