Beyond Trees: Restoration lessons from China’s Loess Plateau

Buckingham, Kathleen

doi:10.22459/cnseg.07.2016.16

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“…In turn, China became a net oil importer in 1993, when 7.5 per cent of oil for domestic consumption had to be imported (Leung 2011). China's timber-consuming industries had also grown rapidly: by 2000, China had emerged as the main processing hub for the world's forestry industry (Buckingham 2016). This gave rise to an expansive search for greater and diversified access to oil, minerals and timber, which also served to identify new markets for Chinese goods and services (Pannell 2013).…”

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China’s ‘Innovative and Pragmatic’ Foreign Aid: Shaped by and now Shaping Globalisation

Johnston¹,

Rudyak²

2017

China's New Sources of Economic Growth: Vol. 2

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Section: Mid-1990s To 2010: Going Out With the Trinity Of Aid Trade mentioning

confidence: 99%

China’s ‘Innovative and Pragmatic’ Foreign Aid: Shaped by and now Shaping Globalisation

Johnston¹,

Rudyak²

2017

China's New Sources of Economic Growth: Vol. 2

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“…Projects for the recovery of natural forests have increased in the past decades, but are still insufficient and need more effort to become reliable and efficient in the long term (5). Passive restoration is the main restoration approach used in Brazil, mainly due to land-use history and reduction of costs, but new techniques and products that raise the restoration power and speed lead to better perspectives in the future (6). Some of these improvements rely on the adoption of active restoration, once this approach accelerates and improves the canopy cover, species density, and the number of trees in the forest environment (7).…”

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Amazonian dark earths enhance the establishment of tree species in forest ecological restoration

Freitas,

Zagatto,

Rocha

et al. 2023

Front. Soil Sci.

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IntroductionDeforestation of areas for agriculture and cattle breeding is the leading cause of ecological degradation and loss of biodiversity. The solution to mitigate these damages relies on techniques that improve soil health and the microbial quality of these degraded areas. Here, we demonstrate that the high nutrient and microbiological contents of Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE) can promote the development of trees used in ecological restoration projects.MethodsWe used degraded soil from crops as control and ADE from the Central Amazon to conduct the experiment, using 20% of ADE as inoculum in degraded agricultural soil. Our goal was to assess whether a small amount of ADE could promote changes that improve plant development similar to its growth under a 100%ADE. We simulated conversion from pasture to forest restoration area by planting U. brizantha in all pots. After 60 days, we removed it and planted Cecropia pachystachya, Peltophorum dubium, and Cedrela fissilis.ResultsOur results demonstrated that both 20%ADE and 100%ADE treatments increased pasture productivity and, consequently, soil carbon stock. Also, in these treatments, P. dubium and C. fissilis had better growth and development, with 20%ADE plants showing a performance similar to those planted in 100%ADE. Both 20%ADE and 100%ADE showed similar numbers of taxa, being significantly higher than in the control soil.DiscussionThe 20%ADE was sufficient to increase significantly the microbial richness in the soil, providing several beneficial microorganisms to all tree species such as Pedomicrobium, Candidatus Nitrososphaera, and members of Paenebacillaceae. Nevertheless, C. pachystachya, a common pioneer tree in the Amazonian Forest showed a small response even to 100%ADE with a corresponding lower taxa number than the other two species. In conclusion, we point out that microbial structure remains very similar among plants but dissimilar among treatments, highlighting the role of ADE as an enhancer of plant development and beneficial microbiota enrichment in the rhizosphere. The use of 20%ADE was sufficient to alter the microbial community. Therefore, we believe our data could contribute to speeding up forest restoration programs by adopting new biotechnological approaches for forest restoration ecology.

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Adaptive measures: integrating adaptive forest management and forest landscape restoration

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Stanturf

Kleine

et al. 2018

Annals of Forest Science

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Beyond Trees: Restoration lessons from China’s Loess Plateau

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

China’s ‘Innovative and Pragmatic’ Foreign Aid: Shaped by and now Shaping Globalisation

China’s ‘Innovative and Pragmatic’ Foreign Aid: Shaped by and now Shaping Globalisation

Amazonian dark earths enhance the establishment of tree species in forest ecological restoration

Adaptive measures: integrating adaptive forest management and forest landscape restoration

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