Pedro H S Brancalion

Biographic Data

ID1750193
NAMEPedro H S Brancalion
GIVEN NAMESPedro H S
FAMILY NAMEBrancalion
SIGNATUREBRANCALION P H S
AFFILIATIONSUniversidade de São Paulo
ORCID0000-0001-8245-4062
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS57
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Open letter

    Open AccessDavid Bartholomew, Paul Smith et al.ARTICLEPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET2026

    Despite growing investment in restoration, weak accountability and poor biodiversity monitoring mean many projects fail to achieve ecological recovery. The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) offers a practical way to ensure that restoration finance delivers measurable gains for nature. By providing independent, site-based verification and engaging local experts, TGBS builds trust, transparency and equity in restoration practice. Its adoption cou…

  • Bioeconomic opportunities in restored tropical forests

    Open AccessPedro Medrado Krainovic, João Paulo Romanelli et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2026References: 46

  • Spatial predictors of landowners' engagement in the restoration of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

    Open AccessThomas Pienkowski, Anna Freni Sterrantino et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    Forest restoration can potentially contribute to multiple global sustainable development goals. Yet, little is known about the factors associated with local actors' choice to engage in restoration, limiting the development of effective scaling strategies. Our study examines the spatial socio‐ecological factors associated with landowners' engagement in forest restoration, documented by the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact in Brazil. We draw on Dif…

  • Dissecting forest transition

    Open AccessJohan De Jong, Lourens Poorter et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2025References: 117

    Forest Transition (FT) is a theoretical framework for understanding tree cover changes but often overlooks differences within countries, across forest types (e.g., second-growth forests, tree plantations replacing natural forests), regions, and climates. We quantified tropical tree cover dynamics across eight regions in four tropical countries, examining how these patterns relate to FT and how they vary between climates and forest types. Each cou…

  • Current constraints to reconcile tropical forest restoration and bioeconomy

    Open AccessPedro Medrado Krainovic, Diego Oliveira Brandão et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2024Cited by: 1

    Large-scale forest restoration is vital for delivering a broad array of ecosystem services benefits to society. However, it is often perceived as an economically noncompetitive land use choice. Integrating economic opportunities into restoration aligns socioeconomic and environmental goals, reducing conflicts between forest production and conservation-oriented management decisions. Supply chains focusing on high-value goods can enhance the reach …

  • The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches

    Open AccessFangyuan Hua, L Adrian Bruijnzeel et al.ARTICLEScience2022

    Forest restoration is being scaled up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and biodiversity benefits; however, there is a lack of rigorous comparison of cobenefit delivery across different restoration approaches. Through global synthesis, we used 25,950 matched data pairs from 264 studies in 53 countries to assess how delivery of climate, soil, water, and wood production services, in addition to biodiversity, compares across a range of…

  • Ecosystem restoration job creation potential in Brazil

    Open AccessPedro H S Brancalion, Ludmila Pugliese De Siqueira et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2022

    The central motivation to restore ecosystems at a planetary scale has been to reverse degradation and provide multiple environmental benefits, but key global players like governments may be more interested in social outcomes from undertaking restoration, such as job creation. Assessing the job opportunities stemming from ongoing restoration programmes can leverage additional investments for their implementation and support their long‐term mainten…

  • Which of the plethora of tree-growing projects to support

    Open AccessKaren D Holl, Pedro H S BrancalionARTICLEOne Earth2022

  • Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits

    Open AccessAlice Di Sacco, Kate Hardwick et al.ARTICLEGlobal Change Biology2021

    Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives, many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly compensate for anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, which are a major cause of rising global temperatures. However, tree planting that is poorly planned and executed could actually increase CO 2 emissions and have long‐term, deleterious impacts on biodiversity, landscapes and livelihoo…

  • The cost of restoring carbon stocks in Brazil's Atlantic Forest

    Open AccessPedro H S Brancalion, Joannès Guillemot et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2021

    Knowing which restoration approach provides the best returns on investment for accumulating carbon is essential to foster restoration planning, financing, and implementation. Here, we explored the cost‐effectiveness and drivers of aboveground and soil carbon accumulation in restored forests across an agricultural landscape of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. The recovery of aboveground and soil carbon stocks, as well as the implementation and land oppor…

  • Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America

    Open AccessSebastián Aguiar, Matías E Mastrangelo et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2021

    Tree planting and reforestation are currently in the spotlight as strategies for solving global environmental degradation. Many ongoing large-scale initiatives have proposed restoring millions of hectares and planting a trillion trees to solve climate change and biodiversity loss. Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is one of the approaches most frequently employed to support these initiatives. Currently, many FLR initiatives are implemented i…

  • Implementing forest landscape restoration in Latin America

    Open AccessDaniella Schweizer, Paula Meli et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2021Cited by: 2References: 27

  • Tree planting is not a simple solution

    Open AccessKaren D Holl, Pedro H S BrancalionARTICLEScience2020

    Tree planting must be carefully planned and implemented to achieve desired outcomes

  • Drivers of tropical forest cover increase

    Open AccessMónica Borda‐Niño, Paula Meli et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2020

    Promoting natural regeneration can be a viable strategy to achieve ambitious restoration commitments, but predicting where native forest cover is likely to expand is challenging. Different biophysical and socioeconomic factors may determine the chances of native forest regrowth at different spatial and temporal scales, producing complex spatial patterns in the landscape and adding more and deeper information about potential for different forms of…

  • Ten years to restore a planet

    Open AccessElizabeth Maruma Mrema, Thomas W Crowther et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

  • Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires

    Open AccessAdrián Cardíl, Sergio De‐miguel et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Tropical forests are of global importance even though they only cover around 10% of the Earth's land surface. They store large amounts of carbon and host between one-half and two-thirds of the world's species (Lewis 2006). Small changes in the tropical moist forest—the most biodiverse biome within the tropical forests—may lead to global impacts on climate dynamics and warming, water cycles, and the loss of biodiversity. If the current rates of de…

  • Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus

    Open AccessFelipe P L Melo, Luke Parry et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Cited by: 3References: 12

  • Changes in Brazil’s Forest Code can erode the potential of riparian buffers to supply watershed services

    Open AccessVinicius Guidotti, Silvio Frosini De Barros Ferraz et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2020Cited by: 1References: 68

  • Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes

    Open AccessPedro H S Brancalion, Aidin Niamir et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2019

    Assessment of socioenvironmental benefits and feasibility identifies priority areas for restoring global tropical rainforests.

  • Restoring forests as a means to many ends

    Open AccessRobin L Chazdon, Robin Chazdon et al.ARTICLEScience2019

    An urgent need to replenish tree canopy cover calls for holistic approaches

  • Riparian-forest buffers

    Open AccessPaula Meli, Alicia Calle et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2019References: 39

  • A Policy‐Driven Knowledge Agenda for Global Forest and Landscape Restoration

    Open AccessRobin L Chazdon, Pedro H S Brancalion et al.ARTICLEConservation Letters2017

    The global restoration movement is gaining momentum. International and national leaders are demonstrating unparalleled political will for achieving ambitious targets. However, the knowledge base for implementing large‐scale forest and landscape restoration (FLR) needs further development. Besides application of scientific and local knowledge, a broad understanding of the social, economic, and environmental context in which this knowledge is being…

  • Contrasting regulatory frameworks to govern riparian forest restoration in Mexico and Brazil

    Open AccessPaula Meli, Pedro H S BrancalionARTICLEWorld Development Perspectives2017Cited by: 1

  • Best practice for the use of scenarios for restoration planning

    Open AccessJean Paul Metzger, K J Esler et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2017Cited by: 8References: 6

  • Using markets to leverage investment in forest and landscape restoration in the tropics

    Open AccessPedro H S Brancalion, David Lamb et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2017Cited by: 8References: 7