Central European temperate oak woodlands are highly valued for their rich biodiversity.
They are also of great economic importance and forest management aims to produce high …

Applied nucleation, mostly based upon planting tree islands, has been proposed as a cost‐
effective strategy to meet ambitious global forest and landscape restoration targets. We …

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 …

Key message There is no one-size-fits-all way to successfully implement forest landscape
restoration (FLR). Complex socio-ecological systems present challenges and opportunities …

Acorns, the fruit of oak trees of the genus Quercus, have been known to people for
generations worldwide. In ancient times, they were an important part of culinary traditions …

International agreements combined with the recent Chilean Forestry Policy (2015–2035)
represent a challenge and an opportunity for forest landscape restoration in Chile …

Silvicultural approaches for mixed-species stands typically aim at creating and maintaining
stand compositional and structural diversity to provide the desired ecosystem function. An …

Sustainable forest management plays a key role for forest biodiversity and the provisioning
of ecosystem services (BES), including the important service of carbon sequestration for …

The renewal and sustainability of the forest stands are attained through regeneration. There
are three basic methods to regenerate high forest stands: natural regeneration, direct …

Small-scale harvesting methods as practised in close-to-nature forestry may disadvantage
the regeneration of more light-demanding tree species such as most oaks and thus cause …