Natural regeneration as a tool for large‐scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges

RL Chazdon, MR Guariguata - Biotropica, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

The role of land‐use history in driving successional pathways and its implications for the restoration of tropical forests

CC Jakovac, AB Junqueira, R Crouzeilles… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Secondary forests are increasingly important components of human‐modified landscapes in
the tropics. Successional pathways, however, can vary enormously across and within …

[BOOK][B] Second growth: the promise of tropical forest regeneration in an age of deforestation

RL Chazdon - 2019 - degruyter.com
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

What makes ecosystem restoration expensive? A systematic cost assessment of projects in Brazil

PHS Brancalion, P Meli, JRC Tymus, FEB Lenti… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Limited funding is a major barrier to implementing ambitious global restoration
commitments, so reducing restoration costs is essential to upscale restoration. The lack of …

Global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions

BA Williams, HL Beyer, ME Fagan, RL Chazdon… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Extensive forest restoration is a key strategy to meet nature-based sustainable development
goals and provide multiple social and environmental benefits. Yet achieving forest …

Turnover rates of regenerated forests challenge restoration efforts in the Brazilian Atlantic forest

PR Piffer, MR Rosa, LR Tambosi… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Natural forest regeneration is a key component of global ecosystem restoration scenarios.
Regenerated forests, however, may not persist and a better understanding of the drivers of …

Asymmetric forest transition driven by the interaction of socioeconomic development and environmental heterogeneity in Central America

DJ Redo, HR Grau, TM Aide… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Forest transitions (FT) have been observed in many developed countries and more recently
in the develo** world. However, our knowledge of FT from tropical regions is mostly …

Effects of preservation policy on land use changes in Iranian Northern Zagros forests

HB Heidarlou, AB Shafiei, M Erfanian, A Tayyebi… - Land use policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Zagros Forest provides various ecosystem services such as food, timber, water, carbon
storage, air purification, wildlife habitat as well as social and cultural benefits for both …

Scale and context dependency of deforestation drivers: Insights from spatial econometrics in the tropics

R Ferrer Velasco, M Köthke, M Lippe, S Günter - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
A better understanding of deforestation drivers across countries and spatial scales is a
precondition for designing efficient international policies and coherent land use planning …

[HTML][HTML] Titling community land to prevent deforestation: An evaluation of a best-case program in Morona-Santiago, Ecuador

MT Buntaine, SE Hamilton, M Millones - Global Environmental Change, 2015 - Elsevier
Assigning land title to collective landholders is one of the primary policies land management
agencies use to avoid deforestation worldwide. Such programs are designed to improve the …