Designing optimal human‐modified landscapes for forest biodiversity conservation

V Arroyo‐Rodríguez, L Fahrig, M Tabarelli… - Ecology …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Agriculture and development transform forest ecosystems to human‐modified landscapes.
Decades of research in ecology have generated myriad concepts for the appropriate …

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 …

Ecological restoration success is higher for natural regeneration than for active restoration in tropical forests

R Crouzeilles, MS Ferreira, RL Chazdon… - Science …, 2017‏ - science.org
Is active restoration the best approach to achieve ecological restoration success (the return
to a reference condition, that is, old-growth forest) when compared to natural regeneration in …

Multiple successional pathways in human‐modified tropical landscapes: new insights from forest succession, forest fragmentation and landscape ecology research

V Arroyo‐Rodríguez, FPL Melo… - Biological …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Old‐growth tropical forests are being extensively deforested and fragmented worldwide. Yet
forest recovery through succession has led to an expansion of secondary forests in human …

Agricultural expansion and its impacts on tropical nature

WF Laurance, J Sayer, KG Cassman - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2014‏ - cell.com
The human population is projected to reach 11 billion this century, with the greatest
increases in tropical develo** nations. This growth, in concert with rising per-capita …

A global meta-analysis on the ecological drivers of forest restoration success

R Crouzeilles, M Curran, MS Ferreira… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Two billion ha have been identified globally for forest restoration. Our meta-analysis
encompassing 221 study landscapes worldwide reveals forest restoration enhances …

Fostering natural forest regeneration on former agricultural land through economic and policy interventions

RL Chazdon, D Lindenmayer… - Environmental …, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Under suitable conditions, deforested land used for agricultural crops or pastures can revert
to forest through the assisted or unassisted process of natural regeneration. These naturally …

Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production

RM Beyer, F Hua, PA Martin, A Manica… - … Earth & Environment, 2022‏ - nature.com
Agricultural production has replaced natural ecosystems across the planet, becoming a
major driver of carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, and freshwater consumption. Here we …

[كتاب][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” …

Can we name Earth's species before they go extinct?

MJ Costello, RM May, NE Stork - science, 2013‏ - science.org
Some people despair that most species will go extinct before they are discovered. However,
such worries result from overestimates of how many species may exist, beliefs that the …