High temperatures, soil salinity, a lack of available water, loose soils with reduced water
holding, and low soil fertility are obstacles to restoration efforts in degraded drylands and …

Roughly 2 billion ha of land are degraded and in need of ecological restoration worldwide.
Active restoration frequently involves revegetation, which leads to the dilemma of whether to …

Restoring vegetation in degraded ecosystems is an increasingly common practice for
promoting biodiversity and ecological function, but successful implementation is hampered …

In the absence of effective and scalable human intervention, up to 95% of the world's
ecosystems will be affected by anthropogenic degradation by 2050. Therefore, immediate …

Planting has been widely adopted to battle the loss of salt marshes and to establish living
shorelines. However, the drivers of success in salt marsh planting and their ecological …

Abstract Background The plant family Cactaceae provides some of the most striking
examples of adaptive evolution, expressing undeniably the most spectacular New World …

As larger tracts of land experience degradation, seed‐based restoration (SBR) will be a
primary tool to reestablish vegetation and ecosystem function. SBR has advanced in terms …

Ecosystem restoration has traditionally focused on re-establishing vegetation and other
foundation species at basal trophic levels, with mixed outcomes. Here, we show that …

Billions of dollars are spent annually on ecological restoration efforts around the world and
yet successful attainment of restoration targets still falls short in many regions. Globally …

Ecologists have worked to ascribe function to the variation found in plant populations,
communities and ecosystems across environments for at least the past century. The vast …