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 major global effort to enable cost‐effective natural regeneration is needed to achieve
ambitious forest and landscape restoration goals. Natural forest regeneration can potentially …

New remote sensing data on vegetation cover and restoration opportunities bring hope to
the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, one of the hottest of the 36 global biodiversity hotspots …

Is active restoration the best approach to achieve ecological restoration success (the return
to a reference condition, that is, old-growth forest) when compared to natural regeneration in …

Abstract Land-use/land-cover (LULC) pattern influences water quality, however, this relation
may be different for various spatial scales. We evaluated the LULC effects on water quality of …

Roughly 53% of Brazil's native vegetation occurs on private properties. Native forests and
savannahs on these lands store 105±21 GtCO2e (billion tons of CO2 equivalents) and play …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

Summary The Brazilian Atlantic Forest hosts one of the world's most diverse and threatened
tropical forest biota. In many ways, its history of degradation describes the fate experienced …

The forest restoration challenge (globally 2 billion ha) and the prospect of changing climate
with increasing frequency of extreme events argues for approaching restoration from a …

Abstract The Native Vegetation Protection Law of Brazil, which replaced the Forest Code
from 1965, is still undergoing regulation at federal and state levels, and the constitutionality …