The global tree restoration potential
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23364693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean‐françois Bastin (0000-0003-2602-7247, ETH Zurich, corresponding author), Yelena Finegold (0000-0003-2619-5048, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.), Claude García (0000-0002-7351-0226, ETH Zurich), Danilo Mollicone (0000-0003-2107-5741, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.), Marcelo Rezende (0000-0003-1248-4367, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.), Devin Routh (0000-0002-5910-8847, ETH Zurich), Constantin M Zohner (0000-0002-8302-4854, ETH Zurich), Thomas W Crowther (0000-0001-5674-8913, ETH Zurich) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 365 |
| Issue | 6448 |
| Pages | 76-79 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-8075 • E-ISSN: 0193-4511 |
| Publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1126/science.aax0848 |
| PMID | 31273120 |
| OpenAlex | W2955316307 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 248 |
| References cited | 20 |
The potential for global forest cover The restoration of forested land at a global scale could help capture atmospheric carbon and mitigate climate change. Bastin et al. used direct measurements of forest cover to generate a model of forest restoration potential across the globe (see the Perspective by Chazdon and Brancalion). Their spatially explicit maps show how much additional tree cover could exist outside of existing forests and agricultural and urban land. Ecosystems could support an additional 0.9 billion hectares of continuous forest. This would represent a greater than 25% increase in forested area, including more than 200 gigatonnes of additional carbon at maturity.Such a change has the potential to store an equivalent of 25% of the current atmospheric carbon pool. Science , this issue p. 76 ; see also p. 24
Agroforestry · Biology · Canopy · Climate change · Climate change mitigation · Environmental resource management · Geography · Global warming · Tree (set theory) · Tree canopy · Tropics · Woodland · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Environmental Science · Forest Management and Policy · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Mathematics
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| Unique citing works | 248 |
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| Citations per year | 35,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 230 |