A practice-led assessment of landscape restoration potential in a biodiversity hotspot.

ABSTRACT: Effective restoration planning tools are needed to mitigate global carbon and biodiversity crises. Published spatial assessments of restoration potential are often at large scales or coarse resolutions inappropriate for local action. Using a Tanzanian case study, we introduce a systematic approach to inform landscape restoration planning, estimating spatial variation in cost-effectiveness, based on restoration method, logistics, biomass modelling and uncertainty mapping. We found potential for biomass recovery across 77.7% of a 53 000 km² region, but with some natural spatial discontinuity in moist forest biomass, that was previously assigned to human causes. Most areas with biomass deficit (80.5%) were restorable through passive or assisted natural regeneration. However, cumula

SUBMITTER: Wills AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9662286 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature