Soil is an immense habitat for diverse organisms across the tree of life, but just how many
organisms live in soil is surprisingly unknown. Previous efforts to enumerate soil biodiversity …

Estimating biodiversity change across the planet in the context of widespread human
modification is a critical challenge. Here, we review how biodiversity has changed in recent …

Ecological restoration projects often have variable and unpredictable outcomes, and these
can limit the overall impact on biodiversity. Previous syntheses have investigated restoration …

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 …

Ecological thresholds comprise relatively fast changes in ecological conditions, with respect
to time or external drivers, and are an attractive concept in both scientific and policy arenas …

Habitat restoration is becoming an increasingly prevalent tool in the armoury of marine
conservation, particularly given the expanding interest in creating nature-based solutions to …

The strategy of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration identifies three
pathways for action for overcoming six global barriers thought to hamper upscaling. We …

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to accelerate actions to prevent, halt, and
reverse the degradation of ecosystems, and re-establish ecosystem functioning and species …

Despite growing global attention on forest landscape restoration (FLR) as an integrated
approach to enhancing environmental and human well‐being, the potential for leveraging …

A governance perspective that connects actors at multiple levels in forest restoration is
largely missing and much needed to expedite the translation of national restoration targets …