The forest restoration challenge (globally 2 billion ha) and the prospect of changing climate
with increasing frequency of extreme events argues for approaching restoration from a …

With the demand for, and scale of, ecological restoration increasing globally, effectiveness
monitoring remains a significant challenge. For forest restoration, structural complexity is a …

Monitoring the impacts of anthropogenic threats and interventions to mitigate these threats is
key to understanding how to best conserve biodiversity. Ecologists use many different study …

We present a review of more than 30 years of ecological restoration in the Brazilian part of
the Atlantic Forest. Based on what has been done in this biome, we try to summarize the …

River restoration is at the forefront of applied hydrologic science. However, many river
restoration projects are conducted with minimal scientific context. We propose two themes …

Opportunities to conduct large-scale field experiments are rare, but provide a unique
opportunity to reveal the complex processes that operate within natural ecosystems. Here …

The term “habitat restoration” appears frequently in conservation and landscape
management documents but is often poorly articulated. There is a need to move to a clearer …

We discuss aspects of one of the most important issues in ecological restoration: how to
evaluate restoration success. This first requires clearly stated and justified restoration goals …

Rural communities in many parts of the tropics are dependent of forests for their livelihoods
and for environmental services. Forest resources in the tropics have declined rapidly over …

Dryland degradation and desertification now affect almost a billion people around the world.
Tragically, the biological resources and productivity of millions of acres of land are lost to …