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 …

Global biodiversity change is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time.
Here, we review current scientific knowledge on global biodiversity change and identify the …

Abstract In the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, large knowledge gaps
persist on how to increase biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in cash crop-dominated …

Ecological restoration, when implemented effectively and sustainably, contributes to
protecting biodiversity; improving human health and wellbeing; increasing food and water …

Given that few ecosystems on the Earth have been unaffected by humans, restoring them
holds great promise for stemming the biodiversity crisis and ensuring ecosystem services …

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 …

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

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 101–112 Abstract Biodiversity in agricultural landscapes can be
increased with conversion of some production lands into 'more‐natural'–unmanaged or …

For millennia, mankind has shaped landscapes, particularly through agriculture. In Europe,
the age-old interaction between humans and ecosystems strongly influenced the cultural …

Ecological restoration is widely used to reverse the environmental degradation caused by
human activities. However, the effectiveness of restoration actions in increasing provision of …