Source: wur.nl Published: February 3, 2016 Regrowing secondary tropical forests rapidly sequester carbon. An international team of forest researchers led by researchers from Wageningen University measured an eleven times higher carbon uptake compared with old-growth...
Source: oikosjournal.org Published: August 23, 2016 Géraldine Derroire Can tropical dry forests recover their species richness and composition after major disturbance? Secondary forests recovering after previous deforestation account for a substantial proportion of...
Source: globalforestatlas.yale.edu Published: March 28, 2017 In places where forests have been lost or degraded, restoration or reforestation projects may be undertaken in order to guarantee or accelerate the recovery of forests. Objectives of forest restoration can...
Source: wri.org Published: September 8, 2016 Commitment represents 9 percent of the country’s total land, shows opportunity to restore rangelands and increase quality of life for country’s poorest NAIROBI, KENYA (September 8, 2016)– The African continent has the...
Source: popsci.com Published: July 11, 2016 Researchers at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and Wageningen University found not only that a small amount of donor, healthy soil helped to restore ecosystems, but also that the land restored to the specific type of...
Source: defiance.edu Published: March 1, 2017 Restoration ecology is the art and science of restoring and repairing damaged or destroyed ecosystems. With the worldwide destruction of rain forests, wetlands, old growth forests, prairies, streams, lakes, rivers, and...
Source: wwno.org Published: January 20, 2016 A swamp in Breton Basin. Weenta Girmay By Tegan Wendland State officials want landowners to convert old farmland to wetlands. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service is accepting applications for its Agricultural...
Source: en.reset.org Published: March 1, 2017 CIFOR Agroforestry is the management and integration of trees, crops and/or livestock on the same plot of land and can be an integral component of productive agriculture. It may include existing native forests and forests...
Source: nationalgeographic.com Published: February 21, 2017 By Cathy Newman Photographs by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel https://www.nationalgeographic.com/content/dam/magazine/rights-exempt/2017/03/Trees/trees-outside-desert-tree.adapt.676.1.jpg Bristlecone Pines | Inyo...
Source: abava.com Published: February 21, 2017 Eric Arneson At Antonia Bava Landscape Architects we have had the privilege of designing and overseeing ongoing maintenance for the landscaping within the Living Machine at the LEED Platinum SFPUC Administrative Office...