Marine kelp forests cover 1/3 of our world's coastlines, are heralded as a nature-based
solution to address socio-environmental issues, connect hundreds of millions of people with …

Transformative change is needed to align common small‐scale ecological restoration
approaches with expectations to restore millions of hectares of degraded lands globally …

Over the past decades, China's rapid economic growth and industrialization have led to
serious ecological concerns. To combat ecological degradation and promote ecosystem …

Recent concurrent processes of vegetation greening and reduced resilience (the capacity to
recover from disturbances) worldwide have brought many uncertainties into sustainable …

Restoration of forests in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) has the potential to
contribute to international carbon mitigation targets. However, high upfront costs and …

Restoration of coral reef ecosystems as a management aid has accelerated globally in
response to ever-degrading reef health under climate change. As of 2021, more than US …

National reforestation initiatives with ambitious targets and multiple objectives are becoming
the norm across the Global South. The extent to which these large-scale initiatives are …

Ecosystem restoration, as a core strategy for implementing Nature-based Solutions (NbS),
inherently aligns with NbS principles. Despite significant progress in biodiversity …

With the backdrop of climate change and human activities, the complex interactions within
the social‐ecological system have brought unprecedented challenges to sustainable …

A severe decline in ecosystem services (ES) has accompanied the rapid development of
human societies. There is a growing interest in considering ES management from a systemic …