The value of local ecological knowledge to guide tree species selection in tropical dry forest restoration

Restoration Ecology, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 29(4)

Published: Jan. 15, 2021

Forest restoration projects involving active planting should prioritize species that are useful to local communities, while also considering species' threat status and resistance stress factors, but scientific knowledge on these criteria is scarce, especially in understudied tropical ecosystems. We hypothesized ecological can help fill this gap. Through interviews with 47 experts 197 randomly selected households 8 rural communities of the dry forests northwestern Peru southern Ecuador, we identified perceived as most useful, threatened, resistant factors. To better understand studied knowledge, explored following research questions their implications for selection decisions: (1) How does potential usefulness compare use? (2) relate usefulness? (3) Does factors corroborate knowledge? found large differences between use illustrate how data both yield insights. Furthermore, was mainly linked construction wood, vast majority perceptions coincided knowledge. Our findings improving strategies thereby increasing success forest efforts worldwide.

Language: Английский

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Analyzing vegetation recovery and erosion status after a large Landslide at Mt. Hakusan, Central Japan

Ecological Engineering, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 198, P. 107144 - 107144

Published: Nov. 16, 2023

Language: Английский

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Native leguminous plants for mineland revegetation in the eastern Amazon: seed characteristics and germination

New Forests, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 50(5), P. 859 - 872

Published: Feb. 20, 2019

Language: Английский

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How evergreen and deciduous trees coexist during secondary forest succession: Insights into forest restoration mechanisms in Chinese subtropical forest

Global Ecology and Conservation, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 25, P. e01418 - e01418

Published: Dec. 23, 2020

Deciduous broadleaved forests and evergreen constitute the majority of global subtropical forests. Subtropical vegetation has faced strong anthropogenic pressures, many natural destroyed throughout history have been restored to secondary due various government conservation policies. In early forest restoration, deciduous species with significantly different functional traits play roles jointly determine successional trends, questioning how coexistence competition between trees profoundly impact community assembly restoration. Although seriously threatened, scientific information on these important ecological processes influence regrowth is lacking. We established a 6-ha plot in Guanshan National Nature Reserve, southeastern China. All individual were stem-mapped, identified measured for diameter at breast height (DBH) height. Pair-correlation marked correlation functions indicated that are comparatively more vulnerable density-dependent regulation size reduction adjacent individuals during succession. The interspecific association same DBH class gradually changes from positive negative as increases, indicating seedling large late fine scale. Our results indicate self-thinning caused by conspecific repulsion lead gaps where clustered offspring naturally regenerate coexist, embodying mechanisms facilitating recovery zonal climax types dominated this region. These findings improve our understanding self-recovery succession provide theoretical support accelerate future

Language: Английский

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Rejuvenating ecosystem services through reclaiming degraded land for sustainable societal development: Implications for conservation and human wellbeing

Land Use Policy, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 112, P. 105804 - 105804

Published: Oct. 21, 2021

Language: Английский

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