Ecosystem restoration conventionally focuses on ecological targets. However, while
ecological targets are crucial to mobilizing political, social, and financial capital, they do not …

Area-based conservation is essential to safeguard nature's diversity. In view of expanding
human land use, increasing climate change and unmet conservation targets, area-based …

Forest restoration is being scaled up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and
biodiversity benefits; however, there is a lack of rigorous comparison of cobenefit delivery …

Extensive ecosystem restoration is increasingly seen as being central to conserving
biodiversity and stabilizing the climate of the Earth. Although ambitious national and global …

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

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 …

Invasive plant species can hinder the establishment and growth of native plants and impact
several ecosystem properties, such as soil cover, nutrient cycling, fire regimes and …

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 …

Forest restoration occupies centre stage in global conversations about carbon removal and
biodiversity conservation, but recent research rarely acknowledges social dimensions or …

As a nature‐based and cost‐effective solution, forestation plays a crucial role in combating
global warming, biodiversity collapse, environmental degradation, and global well‐being …