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Incentives and barriers to private finance for forest and landscape restoration
Increased private finance can accelerate forest and landscape restoration globally. Here we conduct semi-structured interviews with asset managers,...
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Strategies for the Ecological Restoration of the Boreal Forest Facing Climate Change
The large-scale simplification of boreal forest ecosystem structure, composition, and processes to boost timber production, combined with the...
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Application of Species Distribution Modeling for Conservation and Restoration of Forest Ecosystems
Climate change and habitat fragmentation are responsible for creating unstable and isolated populations of various rare, endangered, and threatened...
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Ecological Approaches to Forest Restoration: Lessons Learned from Tropical Wet Asia
In this chapter, we present examples of restoration methods that have successfully returned forest cover to a selected set of study sites in...
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Seventeen Years of Forest Restoration with Small-Scale Technologies: Time and Fuel Consumption for Alternative Operations and Techniques
The study characterizes the types of forest interventions conducted on small-scale (< 2 ha) forests by 7 crews managed by the Forest Service in...
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Ecological Restoration of Campos Sulinos Grasslands
Ecological restoration is an important activity to ensure biodiversity conservation and the provision of ecosystem services. It has been a growing...
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Restoration of Damaged Forest and Roles of Remote Sensing
Ecological damage refers to the reduction in the value of the environment due to human activities and natural disasters such as climate change and...
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Soil organic carbon storage in forest restoration models and environmental conditions
The scale of forest and landscape restoration is expected to increase during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and its contribution to the...
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Restoration of calcareous grasslands by natural recolonization after forest clearing and its impact on the genetic variation of three common herb species
Species-rich calcareous grasslands in Europe strongly declined during the twentieth century due to drastic land use changes. Many grasslands were...
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Aspects of forest restoration and hydrology: the hydrological function of litter
Although forests play important roles in the hydrological cycle, there is little information that relates the water retention capacity of litter in...
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Aspects of forest restoration and hydrology: linking passive restoration and soil–water recovery in Brazilian Cerrado
Although the scientific knowledge about some associations between physical parameters of the soil is consolidated, studies focused on investigating...
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Bee and plant traits drive temporal similarity of pollination interactions in areas under distinct restoration strategies
One of the ways to evaluate the success of restoration strategies in degraded areas, in terms of restoring pollination, key process for the...
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Identifying a green infrastructure to prioritise areas for restoration to enhance the landscape connectivity and the provision of ecosystem services
IntroductionHabitat fragmentation is one of the major causes of the loss of biodiversity that our planet is experiencing. This has affected the...
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Introduction to Restoration Ecology
Restoration ecology is an interdisciplinary field of research that builds on the concepts and foundations of ecology and makes use of other...
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Valuing ecological restoration benefits cannot fully support landscape sustainability: a case study in Inner Mongolia, China
ContextExploring the contribution of ecological restoration benefits to landscape sustainability is critical to the successful implementation,...
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Restoration of Degraded Soils for Food Production Through Agroforestry
The effect of land degradation is mostly seen on the economically weak peoples because economically weak peoples are more dependent on natural...
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Phosphorus Fluxes in a Restored Carolina Bay Wetland Following Eight Years of Restoration
Restoring wetlands on agricultural land can release soil phosphorus (P) to surface waters. Phosphorus is a limiting nutrient in many freshwater...
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Measures in the Practice of Ecosystem Restoration
The measures applied for the restoration of ecosystem range from the well-known measures applied in nature conservation management, agriculture, and...
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Restoration Economy: Costs and Benefits
Cost-benefit calculations play a role not only for land use and generally for nature conservation and environmental protection at the business and...
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The Economics of Ecological Restoration
To date, there have been limited applications of cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis by those involved in ecological restoration,...