21: Auto-monitoring wildlife recovery

ABSTRACT: Wildlife monitoring during forest restoration addresses such questions as: What species re-colonize or disappear from restored areas? How many individuals are present? What are the...

22: Smart seed for automated forest restoration.

ABSTRACT: Aerial seeding may be an effective way to restore forest ecosystems on inaccessible or remote sites; it has been used for almost 80 years in agriculture and now is a widespread practice...

23: Allelopathy for weed management in forest restoration

ABSTRACT: In forest restoration, weeds compete with tree seedlings for water, nutrients, sunlight and space, as well as act as habitat for pests and diseases. Allelopathy - the inhibition of one...

24: Developing aerial seeding by UAVs: lessons from direct seeding

ABSTRACT: Direct seeding means sowing the seeds of forest tree species directly into the substrate of restoration sites. It is cheaper than conventional tree planting, but seed predation is high...

25: Applications of remote sensing for tropical forest restoration: challenges and opportunities

ABSTRACT: The tremendous physical and material efforts, required to accurately assess forest degradation and to plan and monitor vegetation recovery using conventional ground surveys, often limit...

26: Forest restoration: concepts and the potential for its automation

ABSTRACT: In 2014, the UN New York Climate Summit set a goal to restore forest to 350 million hectares of degraded land by 2030, to counter climate change. Conventional tree-planting with human...

27: Automated Forest Restoration: Could Robots Revive Rain Forests?

Now available as printed book. Please click on CONTACT US tab if you would like one.  The proceedings of a brainstorming workshop - "Automated Forest Restoration; Could Robots Revive Rain...

28: The science and sociology of restoring Asia’s tropical forest ecosystems

ABSTRACT: Thirty years ago, reforestation in the tropics meant planting monocultures of economic trees. Ecosystem restoration was rarely practised, due to lack of effective techniques. Since then,...

29: Genetic assessment of three Fagaceae species in forest restoration trials

ABSTRACT: Restoring isolated patches of forest ecosystems in degraded landscapes could potentially lead to inbreeding, leading to loss of genetic variability among small populations of planted...

30: The interface between forest science and policy—a review of the IUFRO international and multidisciplinary scientific conference 4–7 October 2016: forestry-related policy and governance: analyses in the environmental social sciences

ABSTRACT: This commentary uses the experience of attending the “Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Forestry-related Policy and Governance” to contrast the lack of progress with...