Abstract
Newton, A. C., R. F. del Castillo, C. Echeverría, D. Geneletti, M. González-Espinosa, L. R. Malizia, A. C. Premoli, J. M. Rey Benayas, C. Smith-Ramírez, and G. Williams-Linera. 2012. Forest landscape restoration in the drylands of Latin America. Ecology and Society 17(1): 21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04572-170121
Highlights
In recent years, restoration ecology has advanced significantly both as a scientific discipline and as a practical approach to environmental management (Young et al 2005, Brudvig 2011, Bullock et al 2011)
We demonstrated that Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) can be achieved through both passive and active restoration approaches, and can be cost-effective if the increased provision of ecosystem services is taken into account
A further example is “REDD+” (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), which includes among its aims the enhancement of forest carbon stocks through ecological restoration (UNEP 2011)
Summary
Restoration ecology has advanced significantly both as a scientific discipline and as a practical approach to environmental management (Young et al 2005, Brudvig 2011, Bullock et al 2011). Monitoring of the extent and condition of dry forest has been very limited in these study areas to date, and while our research made some progress in this respect (Schulz et al 2010, Rey Benayas et al 2011, Schulz et al 2011), such approaches will need to be widely adopted by the stakeholders of restoration initiatives if FLR is to be successful. We examined whether FLR is likely to be cost-effective by conducting spatial analysis of ecosystem service values in four dryland forest landscapes (Birch et al 2010) This was achieved by estimating the net value of ecosystem service benefits under different FLR scenarios, supported by modeling using LANDIS II (Figure 3). Spatial MCE approaches enabled the implications of different values (or weights) held by different stakeholders to be explored through the use of mapping tools, linked with GIS
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