Succession is a fundamental concept in ecology because it indicates how species
populations, communities, and ecosystems change over time on new substrate or after a …

A growing number of initiatives at global, regional and national scales propose to plant
millions, billions or even trillions of trees as a simple solution to resolve complex …

Abstract In the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, large knowledge gaps
persist on how to increase biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in cash crop-dominated …

Tree planting is both a promising and controversial solution to climate change and
biodiversity loss. However, this controversy is largely theoretical because we lack detailed …

Current policy is driving renewed impetus to restore forests to return ecological function,
protect species, sequester carbon and secure livelihoods. Here we assess the contribution …

Forest restoration is currently a primary objective in environmental management policies at a
global scale, to the extent that impressive initiatives and commitments have been launched …

Increased private finance can accelerate forest and landscape restoration globally. Here we
conduct semi-structured interviews with asset managers, corporations and restoration …

Forest restoration is increasingly heralded as a global strategy to conserve biodiversity and
mitigate climate change, yet long-term studies that compare the effects of different …

There is an increasing urgency to implement large-scale ecosystem restoration to mitigate
the biodiversity and climate crises. These efforts must be scaled up to counteract the …

Succession is defined as a directional change in species populations, the community, and
the ecosystem at a site following a disturbance. Succession is a fundamental concept in …