Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural
solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges …

The two most urgent and interlinked environmental challenges humanity faces are climate
change and biodiversity loss. We are entering a pivotal decade for both the international …

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

A plethora of articles suggest that tree planting can overcome a host of environmental
problems, including climate change, water shortages, and the sixth mass extinction (1–3) …

Over 140 Mha of restoration commitments have been pledged across the global tropics, yet
guidance is needed to identify those landscapes where implementation is likely to provide …

Under suitable conditions, deforested land used for agricultural crops or pastures can revert
to forest through the assisted or unassisted process of natural regeneration. These naturally …

It is theoretically possible to protect large fractions of species in relatively small regions. For
plants, 85% of species occur entirely within just over a third of the Earth's land surface …

Land‐use change is fragmenting natural ecosystems, with major consequences for
biodiversity. This paper reviews fragmentation trends–historical and current–in China, the …

Aim Planted forests are becoming increasingly common world‐wide for a variety of reasons,
including water conservation and carbon sequestration, although the effects of tree …

The land sparing-sharing model provides a powerful heuristic and analytical framework for
understanding the potential of agricultural landscapes to support wild species. However, its …