Europe's forest provide multiple ecosystem services for societies, ranging from provisioning
(eg wood) and regulating (eg climate mitigation and biodiversity) to cultural (eg recreation) …

Forest covers 4.06 billion hectares (ha) or 31% of the total land area worldwide, where
93%(3.75 billion ha) are natural regenerating forests and the remaining 7%(294 million ha) …

Forest restoration increases global forest area and ecosystem services such as primary
productivity and carbon storage. How tree species functional composition impacts the …

Extreme climatic events threaten forests and their climate mitigation potential globally.
Understanding the drivers promoting ecosystem stability is therefore considered crucial for …

Current policy is driving renewed impetus to restore forests to return ecological function,
protect species, sequester carbon and secure livelihoods. Here we assess the contribution …

There has never been a more pressing and opportune time for science and practice to
collaborate towards restoration of the world's forests. Multiple uncertainties remain for …

Tropical reforestation is among the most powerful tools for carbon sequestration. Yet, climate
change impacts on productivity are often not accounted for when estimating its mitigation …

National and local governments need to step up efforts to effectively implement the post‐
2020 global biodiversity framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity to halt and …

Abstract The European Union (EU) set clear climate change mitigation targets to reach
climate neutrality, accounting for forests and their woody biomass resources. We …

Increasing durations and frequencies of droughts under climate change endanger the
sustainable functioning of forests worldwide. The admixture of species with complementary …