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‘Mind the Gap’—reforestation needs vs. reforestation capacity in the western United States

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change
Tree establishment following severe or stand-replacing disturbance is critical for achieving U.S. climate change mitigation goals and for maintaining the co-benefits of intact forest ecosystems.
Marin E Chambers   +2 more
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The Reforestation of Africa?

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Science, 2012
1poses a challenging question for African ecologists and environmentalists: do we, in the subcontinent, face not a contraction, but a vast and inevitable expansion of subtropical tree cover, driven by levels of CO 2 that have not been seen in the past several million years?
Adam West, Guy Midgley, William Bond
doaj   +6 more sources

A new species of social wasp from Madagascar with an inverted nest architecture (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Hymenoptera Research, 2023
Ropalidia jemmae sp. nov. is described from the protected Ankafobe evergreen forest in central Madagascar. This species is characterized by a variable black and green body colour pattern and a unique nest architecture within the genus Ropalidia.
Ozren Polašek, Len de Beer
doaj   +3 more sources

Review of Community-Based Conservation Initiatives for Protecting a Primary Atlantic Forest Remnant: A Case Study

open access: yesConservation, 2023
Effective forest conservation should go hand in hand with collaboration of the surrounding local communities. Bringing advancement and relief to marginalized communities is pivotal for conservation initiatives, with the objective of cultivating a ...
Anita Studer   +8 more
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Mapping the distribution of the Eurasian Hoopoe Upupa epops and the Pine Processionary Moth in Lebanon based on a Citizen Science approach

open access: yesAvocetta, 2023
The Pine Processionary Moth (PPM) Thaumetopoea wilkinsoni has long been attacking Mediterranean forests. In its management strategy, Lebanon has focused mainly on pesticides, leaving natural predators as an understudied control option. This study aims to
Leila Rossa Mouawad   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cost of mitigating climate change through reforestation in China

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023
Reforestation is a potentially large-scale approach for removing CO2 from the atmosphere, thereby helping China achieve its goal of carbon neutrality by 2060.
Xianghua Zhang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Local ecological niche modelling to provide suitability maps for 27 forest tree species in edge conditions

open access: yesiForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2020
Ecological Niche Modelling (ENM) portrays the relationship between the actual geographical distribution of a species and the environmental factors that induced this distribution.
Stephan J   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Review of reforestation value chain planning and management: A conceptual framework

open access: yesTrees, Forests and People, 2022
The growing importance of sustainable forest management has led to increased interest in reforestation. A better understanding of the processes in the reforestation value chain and the development of means to improve planning could help forest managers ...
Mahtabalsadat Mousavijad   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reforestation and sylvopastoral systems in Sahelian drylands: evaluating return on investment from provisioning ecosystem services, Senegal

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Since the 1960s, droughts have caused significant degradation of Sahelian ecosystems, particularly resulting in a reduction in tree cover. Despite the challenges posed by climate change, the rural Sahelian population continues to depend on natural ...
Jean-Daniel Cesaro   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reforestation regulated soil bacterial community structure along vertical profiles in the Loess Plateau

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2023
IntroductionReforestation is a widely used strategy for ecological restoration in areas facing ecological degradation. Soil bacteria regulate many functional processes in terrestrial ecosystems; however, how they respond to reforestation processes in ...
Fan Wu   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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