Category: <span>Speaker’s Column</span>

Rainforest recovery – optimistic results in a rather pessimistic global context

Our recent article in Nature (see our Post here) may spark an optimistic viewpoint – animal communities in a tropical rainforest recover in a few decades, many of them even completely. Note that we only speak of a complete natural regeneration when, based on the species composition, a secondary forest …

Trees, global visions & science communication

Does our research contribute to restoring biodiversity and climate? There is an ongoing discussion around ‘natural solutions’ for climate, and the potential of forest restoration for carbon capture and mitigation of global warming. One of the key papers in this controversial debate was a Science paper in 2019 from Thomas …