Forest Based NBS Flashcards
Brancalion et al 2019
- Identifying restoration benefits and feasability
- Producing a combined score for evaluating tropical forest restoration
- High scores in Atlantic forest, Guinean forest
Papatov et al 2022
- 3.3% forest gain from 2000
- 5.6% forest loss from 2000
- -2.4% net forest change from 2000-2020.
Maher 1992
Forest transition theory
- Countries richer meaning less forest is cleared and some areas forested as agriculturally marginally land is abandoned
Di Sacco et al 2021
10 golden rules for reforestation
Curtis et al 2019
Drivers of forest loss
- commodity driven 27.5%
- Forestry 26%
- Shifting agriculture 24%
- Wildfire 23%
- Urbanisation
- wildfires increasing
Pendrill et al 2019
Leakage - conversion of agricultural land in one country to forest, leads to deforestation in another country to meet food demand.
Song et al 2019
Reduction in soy in Amazon shifted deforestation to Cerrado
Tilman and Clark 2014
Meat diet has highest GHG emissions
Hua et al 2022
Plantations good for timber, but bad for ES
Plantation vs native forests/regeneration
Lewis 2019
Natural Regeneration best method
Crouzilles and Curran 2015
Natural regen needs continuous forests of at least 50% within 5km of target regen site to be effective
Bond et al 2019
African countries focusing on 100 million ha of Savanna for reforestation
Martin et al 2021
- 1.5 billion trees planted in reforestation projects
- Few projects on natural regen
- Goals are utilitarian not ecological
Seymour 2020
Companies like shell targeting reforestation because thats where the money is
