As the world’s largest ecosystem, forests affect the location, layout, and functionality of human populations worldwide. Despite environmental efforts, forests are being taken down. As socioeconomic issues promote deforestation, sustainable dev...
Artificial afforestation plays a critical role in ecological restoration, but its implementation involves multiple strategies—such as new afforestation, densification, and replacement afforestation. Long-term spatial and temporal identification...
Climate change is likely to decrease surface water availability in Central Asia, thereby necessitating land use adaptations in irrigated regions. The introduction of trees to marginally productive croplands with shallow groundwater was suggested for...
This study examined the development, direction, and characteristics of the North Korean forest restoration policy when compared to similar restoration policies established in South Korea. The success factors of South Korea’s Forest Conservation...
Across the Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia, millions of newly planted trees struggle to survive amid adverse ecological conditions. They were planted by a wide variety of actors in an attempt to protect, restore, or modify the local environment, de...
Over the past 40 years, south-central Chile has experienced important land-use-induced land cover changes, with massive conversion from native forests (NF) to Pinus radiata D.Don and Eucalyptus spp. exotic forest plantations (FP). Several case studie...
Soil aggregate stability and carbon–nitrogen content are critical indicators for assessing the vegetation restoration effects. Salix cupularis plays a vital role in rehabilitating desertified alpine meadows on the eastern Qinghai–Tibet Pl...
Sandy soils are less fertile and, therefore, often abandoned in the Central European region. Land abandonment can cause the recovery of ecosystems by the replacement of crop species by vegetation that disperses from surrounding habitats and will be s...
Recent international climate documents emphasize the great importance of the afforestation of agricultural land having a positive impact on CO2 levels, not only by absorbing carbon by trees, but also by replacing fossil fuels with biomass. In Russia,...
This study compares the quality of wood from two distinct sites in the Czech Republic—from former afforested agricultural land and forest land. We compared the properties of Norway spruce wood (Picea abies Karst.) and Scots pine wood (Pinus sylvestri...
Urban green infrastructure (UGI) includes green and blue open spaces that provide multiple ecosystem services (ES) and the ecological and cultural benefits for people to hedge the urbanization challenges. In this paper, we assessed the total economic...
Regarding the achievement of worldwide agricultural climate neutrality, the focus is on a worldwide net-zero emission of cradle-to-farmgate greenhouse gases (GHGs), while, when appropriate, including the biogeophysical impacts of practices on the lon...
Natural radionuclides (40K, 210Pb, 226Ra, 232Th, and 238U) were evaluated for the first time on volcanic ash soils of the Argentine Patagonian Andes. The study was carried out along a topoedaphoclimatic gradient, encompassing soils from Xeric Molliso...
The mixing of poplar and robinia in coastal saline land is a useful attempt at difficult site afforestation. Investigating the long–term mixing effects of nitrogen–fixing and non–nitrogen–fixing tree species on the spatial het...
Human-induced land degradation in biodiverse regions like Mount Elgon threatens vital ecosystems. This study employs drone mapping and community insights to assess land use changes, degradation, and restoration in Mount Elgon, Uganda. Drone monitorin...
Robinia pseudoacacia is native to North America and has been introduced into many other countries in Europe, South and South East Asia, South America, Africa, and Oceania. The species has been planted intensively in a large area of these countries be...
The climate emergency calls for carbon drawdown to be applied at scale to offset the ‘hard to abate’ emission reductions that threaten Net Zero. The use of biogenic materials in construction promises benefits in terms of low embodied carb...
The biogenic organization of widespread valley pine ecosystems on sandy alluvium leads to an increase in soil fertility, productivity, and biodiversity through autogenic successions. Using our own stationary observations and literary data on the prod...
Burning forest biomass from renewable sources has been suggested as a viable strategy to help offset greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the energy generation sector. Energy facilities can, in principle, be retrofitted to produce a portion of their ene...
Urbanization has become an important player in the global carbon cycle, and land use change is the second largest source of carbon emissions. However, despite great advances in remote sensing and satellite imagery, there is no reliable estimate of th...
European forests are facing ongoing climate change, and certain tree species are being critically impacted. The Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) is one of the most sensitive species to climate fluctuations, a fact manifesting itself through ma...
The largest area of tropical rainforests in China is on Hainan Island, and it is an important part of the world’s tropical rainforests. The structure of the tropical rainforests in Hainan is complex, the biomass density is high, and conducting ground...
Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) is the most widely distributed pine species in Europe and is relevant in terms of planted areas and harvest yields. Therefore, each year the demand for planting stock of Scots pine is exceedingly high, and large quant...
Forests of the Carpathians are of increasing research interest, as they cover a large area (>9 Mha) within European forests and are influenced by diverse environmental conditions and contrasting historical developments. We reviewed 251 papers deal...
Prosopis was introduced to Baringo, Kenya in the early 1980s for provision of fuelwood and for controlling desertification through the Fuelwood Afforestation Extension Project (FAEP). Since then, Prosopis has hybridized and spread throughout the regi...
Replacement of native deciduous forests by coniferous stands was a common result of former European afforestation policies and paradigms of forest management and led to considerable ecological consequences. Therefore, the most popular management stra...
Arid oasis–desert systems in inland basins are increasingly threatened by human-induced land-use transformation and aggravated dust storm hazards, whereas the nonlinear coupling mechanisms and critical land-use thresholds controlling dust pollu...
Forest stand density has been shown to have different, albeit small, effects on soil carbon. We hypothesized that the absence of a density effect on soil carbon (C) storage could be explained by a loss of old soil C. This replacement of old by fresh...