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Functional forest restoration

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021
The strength of functional diversity effects on forest productivity increases over time, highlighting the key role of multi-species tree communities in long-term restoration initiatives.
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Where to restore: Connectivity forest for spatial prioritization in forest landscape restoration [PDF]

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Forest loss, fragmentation, and transformation negatively impact forest biodiversity and ecosystem functionality worldwide. Improving landscape intactness and connectivity through restoration is critical. Determining where to restore remains, however, a challenge. As an approach for prioritizing restoration areas, we define connectivity forest (CFs) as
Wang, Xiaoming, Svensson, Johan, Jonsson, Bengt Gunnar, Singh, Navinder J., Bubnicki, Jakub W., Lopéz-Peinado, Andrés, Angelstam, Per, Mikusiński, Grzegorz, Ardö, Jonas   +8 more
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Seasonal stability of 137Cs in coppiced Quercus serrata current-year branches: Toward the estimation of trunk 137Cs activity concentrations without felling

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Radiocesium (137Cs) remains in forests in the Fukushima region due to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. To resume the use of bed logs in this area for shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes) cultivation, estimating 137Cs activity ...
Wataru Sakashita, Satoru Miura, Junko Nagakura, Tsutomu Kanasashi, Yoshiki Shinomiya   +4 more
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Differential seed removal, germination and seedling growth as determinants of species suitability for forest restoration by direct seeding – A case study from northern Thailand

Forest Ecosystems, 2023
Background: Direct seeding is potentially a more cost-effective alternative to conventional tree planting for restoring tropical forest ecosystems. However, seed loss, due to removal and damage by animals, can substantially reduce seedling establishment.
Khuanphirom Naruangsri, Pimonrat Tiansawat, Stephen Elliott   +2 more
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Variation in Seed Quality, Seedling Growth and Biomass Allocation of One-year-old Siberian Larch ( Larix sibirica Ledeb.) Seedlings Grown in Different Conditions from Diverse Seed Sources of Mongolia [PDF]

Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2006
The rehabilitation of degraded forests in Mongolia showed very low success and the total area reforested successfully represents only 5% of the total forest lost. One of the reasons for such poor results may be low
Nyam-Osor Batkhuu, Don Koo Lee, Jamsran Tsogtbaatar, Park Yeong Dae, Ravdanlkhumbuu Bat-Amgalan, Park Go Eun   +5 more
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Temporal changes in the radiocesium distribution in forests over the five years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

Scientific Reports, 2017
To elucidate the temporal changes in the radiocesium distribution in forests contaminated by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident, we monitored the 137Cs concentration and inventory within forests from 2011 to 2015 across nine plots ...
Naohiro Imamura, Masabumi Komatsu, Shinta Ohashi, Shoji Hashimoto, Takuya Kajimoto, Shinji Kaneko, Tsutomu Takano   +6 more
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Radiocesium mobility in different parts of the two major tree species in Fukushima

Scientific Reports, 2023
Radiocesium (137Cs) released in the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident is still cycling in the forest ecosystem. We examined the mobility of 137Cs in the external parts—leaves/needles, branches, and bark—of the two major tree species in ...
Takuya Manaka, Masatake G. Araki, Shinta Ohashi, Naohiro Imamura, Wataru Sakashita, Sumika Ogo, Masabumi Komatsu, Tadashi Sakata, Yoshiki Shinomiya   +8 more
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Three new species of Neodon (Rodentia, Cricetidae) from Sichuan and Xizang, China [PDF]

Zoosystematics and Evolution
During a survey of small mammals in Sichuan and southern Xizang, China, three species of Neodon were collected that did not match to any described species. Therefore, we conducted phylogenetic analyses of the entire genus based on two mitochondrial genes
Xuming Wang, Xuan Pan, Yingxun Liu, Robert W. Murphy, Buqing Peng, Chao Duan, Rui Liao, Xin Wang, Shaoying Liu   +8 more
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Governments commit to forest restoration, but what does it take to restore forests?

Environmental Conservation, 2022
SummaryForest restoration is receiving increased attention from many public and private actors, but few large-scale experiences exist. We explored 10 cases where forest cover had either increased or stabilized or where there was a significant drive towards forest expansion to understand which factors can facilitate the scaling up of forest restoration.
Stéphanie Mansourian, Hermine Kleymann, Valerie Passardi, Susanne Winter, Mercy Derkyi, Anita Diederichsen, Mónica Gabay, Pablo Pacheco, Daniel Vallauri, Christian A. Kull   +9 more
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Fractal features of soil particle size distributions and their potential as an indicator of Robinia pseudoacacia invasion1

Scientific Reports, 2018
To study the fractal dimensions of the soil particle size distributions (PSDs) within different plantations (of Pinus densiflora, Quercus acutissima, Robinia pseudoacacia, and Larix kaempferi) and evaluate PSDs as an indicator of the likelihood of ...
Kun Li, Huanxiang Yang, Xu Han, Lingyu Xue, Yang Lv, Jinhua Li, Zhanyong Fu, Chuanrong Li, Weixing Shen, Huiling Guo, Yikun Zhang   +10 more
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