Protect, manage and then restore lands for climate mitigation

SC Cook-Patton, CR Drever, BW Griscom… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Limited time and resources remain to constrain the climate crisis. Natural climate solutions
represent promising options to protect, manage and restore natural lands for additional …

Tamm Review: Postfire landscape management in frequent-fire conifer forests of the southwestern United States

JT Stevens, CM Haffey, JD Coop, PJ Fornwalt… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The increasing incidence of wildfires across the southwestern United States (US) is altering
the contemporary forest management template within historically frequent-fire conifer forests …

Challenges to the reforestation pipeline in the United States

J Fargione, DL Haase, OT Burney… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Large-scale global reforestation goals have been proposed to help mitigate climate change
and provide other ecosystem services. To explore reforestation potential in the United …

Climate-smart forestry through innovative wood products and commercial afforestation and reforestation on marginal land

B Zhang, K Lan, TB Harris, MS Ashton… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Afforestation and reforestation (AR) on marginal land are nature-based solutions to climate
change. There is a gap in understanding the climate mitigation potential of protection and …

Current inequality and future potential of US urban tree cover for reducing heat-related health impacts

RI McDonald, T Biswas, TC Chakraborty… - npj Urban …, 2024 - nature.com
Excessive heat is a major and growing risk for urban residents. Here, we estimate the
inequality in summertime heat-related mortality, morbidity, and electricity consumption …

Consistent cooling benefits of silvopasture in the tropics

LRV Zeppetello, SC Cook-Patton, LA Parsons… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Agroforestry systems have the potential to sequester carbon and offer numerous benefits to
rural communities, but their capacity to offer valuable cooling services has not been …

Upscaling ecological restoration by integrating with agriculture

PHS Brancalion, KD Holl - Frontiers in Ecology and the …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Transformative change is needed to align common small‐scale ecological restoration
approaches with expectations to restore millions of hectares of degraded lands globally …

A lack of ecological diversity in forest nurseries limits the achievement of tree-planting objectives in response to global change

PW Clark, AW D'amato, BJ Palik, CW Woodall… - Bioscience, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Tree planting is increasingly being adopted as a strategy to address global change,
including mitigation, adaptation, and restoration. Although reforestation has long been …

Existing land uses constrain climate change mitigation potential of forest restoration in India

T Gopalakrishna, G Lomax… - Conservation …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Many countries have made ambitious pledges to increase forest areas to mitigate climate
change. However, the availability of land to meet these goals is not well understood. Global …

Silvopasture offers climate change mitigation and profit potential for farmers in the eastern United States

H Greene, CE Kazanski, J Kaufman… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Silvopasture—integrating trees, forage, and grazing livestock on the same piece of land—is
increasingly popular, given its potential to store carbon (C) and improve farmers' livelihoods …