🌱 Restoration & conservation practitioners - we want to hear from you! 🌱
As part of our work with @snappartnership.bsky.social we're inviting practitioners to complete an anonymous questionnaire about how they monitor their restoration and conservation work.
🔗 umn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
@restorationecology.bsky.social @unep.org @aibsbiology.bsky.social
Now out in BioScience! Our group highlights the importance of monitoring belowground tropical
forest restoration outcomes doi.org/10.1093/bios...
We recommend and outline streamlined approaches to monitor six key dynamic soil physical,
chemical and biological properties to track project outcomes.
The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.
Check out our new paper that introduces an open-source method to quantify herbivory pressure from camera trap images!
The project was led masterfully by @ethzurich.bsky.social student Manuel Weber (not on bluesky).
Desktop application: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Code: github.com/ManuelABWebe...
Out today in @biotropica.bsky.social: We show that deciduous dipterocarp and semi-evergreen forests in Cambodia have distinct species, but similar soils across their abrupt boundaries. But we see differences in fire history and fire adapted functional traits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧰 Our work emphasizes that we already have many of the tools necessary to propel the terrestrial restoration movement forward. It is time to implement and assess their efficacy at scale.
🌱 These approaches have the potential to scale up forest landscape restoration by reducing or offsetting costs and improving cost-benefit ratios, while increasing restoration persistence. However, we need more data on the context-dependent cost-benefit ratio and feasibility of applying them.
🌳 Of the innovations assessed, increasing species diversity and integrating economic species in restoration plantings most frequently improved outcomes. However, each innovation has its own benefits and trade-offs that can help overcome specific restoration challenges.
📊 We found that these innovations frequently outperformed business-as-usual approaches, such as monoculture plantations, in speeding vegetation recovery.
🔎 We worked with an incredible group of restoration practitioners and ecologists to identify seven innovative assisted forest restoration approaches with potential to rapidly regenerate the world’s forests once scaled up.
