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Tree species that ‘live slow, die older’ enhance tropical peat swamp restoration: Evidence from a systematic review

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Highly degraded forests often require active reforestation, which presents additional challenges with species selection for tree plantings. In tropical peat swamp forests, where harsh environmental conditions threaten seedling survival, various seedling and site treatments can enhance seedling survival and growth in restoration projects.

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Land availability and policy commitments limit global climate mitigation from forestation

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The changing global carbon cycle: linking plant–soil carbon dynamics to global consequences

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Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation

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Forests, food, and fuel in the tropics: the uneven social and ecological consequences of the emerging political economy of biofuels

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Against political ecology

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Automating violence? The anti-politics of ‘smart technology’ in biodiversity conservation

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Biodiversity conservation initiatives, such as the UN's post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (30x30), increasingly use smart technologies. Despite recognizing Indigenous and local rights for successful conservation, these initiatives often neglect customary rights and uses. Smart technologies, like AI, camera traps, and drones, enable new surveillance methods. State, private, and corporate actors, including big tech and BINGOs, actively adopt these tools to enhance data access and form smart governance networks.

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Experimental Science for the ‘Bananapocalypse’: Counter Politics in the Plantationocene

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The social and ecological costs of reforestation. Territorialization and industrialization of land use accompany forest transitions in Southeast Asia

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Reforesting Bare Hills in Vietnam: Social and Environmental Consequences of the 5 Million Hectare Reforestation Program

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