Ecological restoration projects often have variable and unpredictable outcomes, and these
can limit the overall impact on biodiversity. Previous syntheses have investigated restoration …

Extensive evidence shows that regional (gamma) diversity is often lower across restored
landscapes than in reference landscapes, in part due to common restoration practices that …

Secondary forests (SFs) regenerating on previously deforested land account for large,
expanding areas of tropical forest cover. Given that tropical forests rank among Earth's most …

Overexploitation of iron mining in China has caused serious environmental pollution.
Therefore, establishing a stable ecological restoration with vegetation in mining areas has …

A primary goal of community ecologists is to understand the processes underlying the
spatiotemporal patterns of species distribution. Understanding the dispersal process is of …

Ecosystem restoration is one of the most promising strategies for conservation in the
Anthropocene. Within ecosystems, plant-animal interactions are critical to their functioning …

Despite the urgent demand for sustainable mining, the revegetation and rehabilitation of
areas degraded by mining activities remain challenging. Uncertainties about species …

Reforestation and forest restoration are recognized as an effective means of halting
biodiversity loss and increasing the performance of ecosystem services such as carbon …

Because of continuing degradation or deforestation in areas of undisturbed primary forest,
there is a need to study the relative merit of strategies that mitigate their impacts on …

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has risen to prominence based on its promise to
vastly improve environmental decision‐making and to represent nature's many benefits to …