Highlights•Large-scale reforestation will rely on participation of private landholders.•Carbon
farming has the potential to incentivise reforestation in production landscapes.•Assisted …

Monoculture plantations have been promoted for the restoration of the world's forested area,
but these have not contained or reversed the loss of biodiversity. More innovative incentive …

Widespread degradation of natural lands has created an urgent need for restoration.
However, the high cost of conventional techniques limits the extent and success of …

Large‐scale and long‐term restoration efforts are urgently needed to reverse historical
global trends of deforestation and forest degradation in the tropics. Restoration of forests …

Secondary forest succession can be an effective and low-cost strategy to increase forest
cover and the associated biodiversity and soil functions. However, little is known about how …

Because of continuing degradation or deforestation in areas of undisturbed primary forest,
there is a need to study the relative merit of strategies that mitigate their impacts on …

Pioneer trees with fleshy fruits are typically planted in restoration projects to attract frugivores
as a mean to increase dispersal and accelerate forest regeneration. However, differences in …

Reversing large-scale degradation and deforestation goes beyond what can be achieved by
site-level ecological restoration. Forest and landscape restoration focuses on spatial scales …

As the most remote archipelago in the world, the Hawaiian Islands are home to a highly
endemic and disharmonic biota that has fascinated biologists for centuries. Forests are the …

The soil seed bank is one of the most important ecological indicators to evaluate and
monitor the ecological restoration process of plant communities. We aimed to analyze the …