The Role of Natural Regeneration in Large-scale Forest and Landscape Restoration: Challenge and Opportunity
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November 2015
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FAODOCREP:0a10acbd-3db4-4646-8a33-c4486c40de38
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55
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From November 19 to 21, 2014, some of the world’s most noted specialists on forest landscape restoration gathered in Rio de Janeiro to assess Natural Regeneration as a cost-effective strategy to achieve large-scale restoration throughout the world. Natural regeneration consists, in its most basic form, of letting remaining portions of the original ecosystem re-colonize a degraded area. A 5-fold cost reduction can be achieved when compared to Restoration Planting; additionally, species colonize from the surrounding area and are adapted to local conditions and to other species (local genotypes).
