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  1. Book: Tropical rain forest ecology, diversity, and conservation

    Ghazoul, Jaboury / Sheil, Douglas

    (Oxford biology)

    2010  

    Author's details Jaboury Ghazoul and Douglas Sheil
    Series title Oxford biology
    Keywords Tropischer Regenwald ; Ökologie ; Biodiversität ; Biotopschutz ; Waldökosystem
    Subject Wald ; Waldökologie ; Biologische Vielfalt ; Vielfalt ; Umweltbiologie ; Ecology ; Tropischer Tieflandregenwald ; Tropische Regenwälder ; Tropen
    Language English
    Size XVI, 516 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
    Publisher Oxford Univ. Press
    Publishing place Oxford u.a.
    Publishing country Great Britain
    Document type Book
    HBZ-ID HT016027102
    ISBN 978-0-19-928587-7 ; 0-19-928587-X ; 978-0-19-928588-4 ; 0-19-928588-8
    Database Catalogue ZB MED Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture

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  2. Article ; Online: Conservation accord: Cash is not enough.

    Ghazoul, Jaboury

    Science (New York, N.Y.)

    2018  Volume 360, Issue 6394, Page(s) 1195

    MeSH term(s) Conservation of Natural Resources
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018--15
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Letter ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 128410-1
    ISSN 1095-9203 ; 0036-8075
    ISSN (online) 1095-9203
    ISSN 0036-8075
    DOI 10.1126/science.aau0798
    Database MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE

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  3. Article ; Online: Functional diversity enhances dryland forest productivity under long-term climate change.

    Hisano, Masumi / Ghazoul, Jaboury / Chen, Xinli / Chen, Han Y H

    Science advances

    2024  Volume 10, Issue 17, Page(s) eadn4152

    Abstract: Short-term experimental studies provided evidence that plant diversity increases ecosystem resilience and resistance to drought events, suggesting diversity to serve as a nature-based solution to address climate change. However, it remains unclear ... ...

    Abstract Short-term experimental studies provided evidence that plant diversity increases ecosystem resilience and resistance to drought events, suggesting diversity to serve as a nature-based solution to address climate change. However, it remains unclear whether the effects of diversity are momentary or still hold over the long term in natural forests to ensure that the sustainability of carbon sinks. By analyzing 57 years of inventory data from dryland forests in Canada, we show that productivity of dryland forests decreased at an average rate of 1.3% per decade, in concert with the temporally increasing temperature and decreasing water availability. Increasing functional trait diversity from its minimum (monocultures) to maximum value increased productivity by 13%. Our results demonstrate the potential role of tree functional trait diversity in alleviating climate change impacts on dryland forests. While recognizing that nature-based climate mitigation (e.g., planting trees) can only be partial solutions, their long-term (decadal) efficacy can be improved by enhancing functional trait diversity across the forest community.
    MeSH term(s) Climate Change ; Forests ; Biodiversity ; Trees ; Canada ; Ecosystem ; Temperature
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-24
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2810933-8
    ISSN 2375-2548 ; 2375-2548
    ISSN (online) 2375-2548
    ISSN 2375-2548
    DOI 10.1126/sciadv.adn4152
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  4. Article ; Online: Incentives and barriers to private finance for forest and landscape restoration.

    Löfqvist, Sara / Garrett, Rachael D / Ghazoul, Jaboury

    Nature ecology & evolution

    2023  Volume 7, Issue 5, Page(s) 707–715

    Abstract: Increased private finance can accelerate forest and landscape restoration globally. Here we conduct semi-structured interviews with asset managers, corporations and restoration finance experts to examine incentives and barriers to private restoration ... ...

    Abstract Increased private finance can accelerate forest and landscape restoration globally. Here we conduct semi-structured interviews with asset managers, corporations and restoration finance experts to examine incentives and barriers to private restoration finance. Next, we assess what type of restoration projects and regions appeal to different private funders and how current financial barriers can be overcome. We show that market incentives for corporations include meeting net-emission-reduction commitments, impact and sustainable branding opportunities, and promotion of sustainability in supply chains. Conversely, asset managers face stronger barriers to investing in restoration as it is deemed a high-risk, unknown investment with low profitability. We find that investment finance biases towards restoration projects in low-risk areas and corporate finance towards areas with business presence. Both private finance types tend to omit projects focusing on natural regeneration. Through expanded and diversified markets for restoration benefits, strong public policy support and new financial instruments, private finance for restoration can be scaled for a wider variety of restoration projects in more diverse geographical contexts.
    MeSH term(s) Forests ; Motivation ; Humans ; Risk
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-08
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ISSN 2397-334X
    ISSN (online) 2397-334X
    DOI 10.1038/s41559-023-02037-5
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  5. Article ; Online: Qualifying pollinator decline evidence.

    Ghazoul, Jaboury

    Science (New York, N.Y.)

    2015  Volume 348, Issue 6238, Page(s) 981–982

    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Bees ; Conservation of Natural Resources/methods ; Environmental Monitoring/methods ; Extinction, Biological ; Pollination ; Stress, Physiological
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-05-29
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Comment ; Letter
    ZDB-ID 128410-1
    ISSN 1095-9203 ; 0036-8075
    ISSN (online) 1095-9203
    ISSN 0036-8075
    DOI 10.1126/science.348.6238.981-b
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  6. Article ; Online: Pollen limitation and context‐dependent alleviating mechanisms in a co‐flowering alpine grassland community

    Wang, Yuxian / Gao, Erliang / Hou, Meng / Ghazoul, Jaboury / Zhao, Zhigang

    Oikos. 2023 Aug., v. 2023, no. 8 p.e09758-

    2023  

    Abstract: The consequences of community metrics (e.g. co‐flowering diversity and floral density) and plant traits (e.g. pollinator dependency and trait similarity) on pollen limitation (PL) may depend on pollinator‐mediated competitive or facilitative interactions ...

    Abstract The consequences of community metrics (e.g. co‐flowering diversity and floral density) and plant traits (e.g. pollinator dependency and trait similarity) on pollen limitation (PL) may depend on pollinator‐mediated competitive or facilitative interactions among plants in co‐flowering communities, which could vary with community contexts (i.e. different altitude communities) and under human disturbances (e.g. livestock grazing). However, the mechanisms to alleviate PL under different contexts, considering pollinator‐mediated interactions among neighboring plants are unclear. We investigated PL under grazing versus ungrazing conditions in low versus high altitude alpine meadows on the Tibetan Plateau to uncover the underlying mechanisms mediating PL associated with livestock grazing. We found that PL is prevalent in alpine grasslands, irrespective of community contexts. Grazing exclusion decreased PL in the two sites but in different ways. At the high‐altitude site, PL was reduced by the exclusion of grazers through increased trait similarity (suggesting facilitation). While PL was reduced by decreased trait similarity (suggesting competition avoidance) under grazing exclusion at the low‐altitude site. Our results provide a mechanistic understanding of PL in co‐flowering alpine grassland communities under distinct human disturbances at different altitudes, emphasizing the role of pollinator‐mediated interactions among plants on plant reproductive success.
    Keywords alpine grasslands ; altitude ; humans ; livestock ; pollen ; pollinators ; reproductive success ; China
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2023-08
    Publishing place Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Document type Article ; Online
    Note JOURNAL ARTICLE
    ZDB-ID 207359-6
    ISSN 0030-1299
    ISSN 0030-1299
    DOI 10.1111/oik.09758
    Database NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA)

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  7. Article ; Online: Glocal woodlands - The rescaling of forest governance in Scotland

    Sharma, Kavita / Walters, Gretchen / Metzger, Marc J. / Ghazoul, Jaboury

    Land Use Policy. 2023 Mar., v. 126 p.106524-

    2023  

    Abstract: As a response to global crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, the UN has called for restoring a billion hectares of land. In recognition, both governments and the private sector have pledged to restore landscapes through planting millions of ... ...

    Abstract As a response to global crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, the UN has called for restoring a billion hectares of land. In recognition, both governments and the private sector have pledged to restore landscapes through planting millions of hectares of forests. Private sector investment is to play a critical role in meeting these goals, through instruments such as biodiversity offsetting, philanthropy, voluntary carbon markets, sustainability funds, and climate bonds. Such instruments allow for the value of place-based ecosystems, such as standing forests, to be circulated globally. No longer are forests horizontal (in terms of their extent on a map); they are also vertical, in terms of their entanglements with institutions, and actors, operating at various scales. An overarching emphasis on the private sector however obscures the role of state institutions in engaging these multi-scalar institutions and actors. Bringing the dimension of scale to tree planting, we examine the ways in which woodland creation, a 'national' policy priority for the Scottish government, brings together actors, both 'local' and 'global', in an unequal context. Our analysis uncovers that in retreating from directly creating and managing woodlands to playing a supportive regulatory role, Scottish Government's forest policies increasingly rescale forest and landscape governance to private and non-profit sectors, and to individual landowners and communities. These actors, who are differently endowed in terms of resources, participate in forestry developments on an uneven playing field. Moreover, questions around power and distribution of benefits arise as woodland expansion increasingly becomes part of green investment portfolios, environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) commitments, offsetting, and individual philanthropy. A relational view of scale that examines prevailing relations of power and resources in given socio-political contexts can both animate and inform current discourses and policies on tree planting for climate change mitigation.
    Keywords biodiversity ; carbon ; climate ; climate change ; forestry ; forests ; governance ; land policy ; landscapes ; private sector ; trees ; woodlands ; Scotland ; Rescaling ; Natural capital ; Tree planting ; Restoration
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2023-03
    Publishing place Elsevier Ltd
    Document type Article ; Online
    Note Use and reproduction
    ZDB-ID 852476-2
    ISSN 0264-8377
    ISSN 0264-8377
    DOI 10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106524
    Database NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA)

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  8. Article ; Online: Pollination decline in context.

    Ghazoul, Jaboury

    Science (New York, N.Y.)

    2013  Volume 340, Issue 6135, Page(s) 923–924

    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Crops, Agricultural/growth & development ; Fruit/growth & development ; Insecta/physiology ; Pollination
    Language English
    Publishing date 2013-05-24
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Letter ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 128410-1
    ISSN 1095-9203 ; 0036-8075
    ISSN (online) 1095-9203
    ISSN 0036-8075
    DOI 10.1126/science.340.6135.923-b
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  9. Article ; Online: Private funding is essential to leverage forest and landscape restoration at global scales.

    Löfqvist, Sara / Ghazoul, Jaboury

    Nature ecology & evolution

    2019  Volume 3, Issue 12, Page(s) 1612–1615

    MeSH term(s) Forests ; Trees
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-11-11
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ISSN 2397-334X
    ISSN (online) 2397-334X
    DOI 10.1038/s41559-019-1031-y
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  10. Article ; Online: Perceptions from non-governmental actors on forest and landscape restoration, challenges and strategies for successful implementation across Asia, Africa and Latin America.

    Schweizer, Daniella / van Kuijk, Marijke / Ghazoul, Jaboury

    Journal of environmental management

    2021  Volume 286, Page(s) 112251

    Abstract: Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) has been defined as a planned process that aims to regain ecological functionality and enhance human well-being in degraded landscapes. Several governments and organizations worldwide rose to the challenge of ... ...

    Abstract Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) has been defined as a planned process that aims to regain ecological functionality and enhance human well-being in degraded landscapes. Several governments and organizations worldwide rose to the challenge of halting degradation and restoring landscapes. Commitments are ambitious, thus a synthesis of current experiences with and strategies for implementation is important to inform future actions. To guide successful implementation, the Global Partnership on FLR put forward six principles, namely, the conservation and enhancement of ecosystems at landscape scales, the restoration of multiple functions, the engagement of multiple stakeholders, with allowances for context dependency and adaptive management. Non-governmental organizations, acting globally, regionally and (or) at national and local scales, play a fundamental role in supporting governments fulfill their commitments. Therefore, we gathered the perceptions of actors within non-governmental organizations engaged in FLR across countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America about what FLR is and their perceived challenges and strategies for implementation. We employed the six principles of FLR to organize and evaluate the responses. Results show that the principles of landscape scale, ecosystem conservation and enhancement, and multi stakeholder engagement are all considered by interviewees as core components of an FLR program. Yet several restoration projects shared by interviewees still required further evidence of a landscape vision, and the integration of actors beyond local communities and the environmental government sectors. Context dependency was evident in the clear incorporation of local natural resource governance norms, such as tribal and community management in project structure, yet few projects appeared to be designed by local actors. The principle of "adaptive management" was mostly missing from the responses, perhaps because most projects had not had sufficient time to learn from intervention outcomes. Key financial challenges for FLR implementation were the short duration and availability of funding, high-up front costs and few short-term returns. To overcome these challenges, promising strategies relate to the development of tangible economic returns for local actors engaged in productive restorative actions that are planned alongside conservation and ecological restoration actions in the landscape. The challenges of negotiating actions with a multitude of actors and the lack of supportive policies highlighted in the interviews require organizations to focus efforts on leveraging the enactment and enforcement of legislations that look beyond jurisdictional boundaries and support landscape management with clear, long term incentive mechanisms and cross-sectoral collaboration. In addition, implementation can be further supported with the scientifically robust sharing of results on how different FLR projects move forward in meeting the social and environmental objectives of a successful, integrative restoration of degraded landscapes.
    MeSH term(s) Africa ; Asia ; Conservation of Natural Resources ; Ecosystem ; Forests ; Government ; Humans ; Latin America ; Perception
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-03-04
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 184882-3
    ISSN 1095-8630 ; 0301-4797
    ISSN (online) 1095-8630
    ISSN 0301-4797
    DOI 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112251
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