R. Travis Belote

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a framework for landscape restoration, offering seven principles for managing large-scale habitat connectivity and disturbance flow issues, and discuss their implication for management, and illustrate their application with examples.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use evidence from ten ecoregions, spanning forests from Canada to Mexico, to review the properties of these forests that reinforced those qualities and highlight geographic similarities and differences in the structure and organization of historical landscapes, their forest types, and in the conditions that have changed resilience and resistance to abrupt or large-scale disruptions.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that some unlogged, fire-excluded, ponderosa pine forests possess latent resilience to reintroduced fire, and a passive model of simply allowing lightning-ignited fires to burn appears to be a viable approach to restoration of such forests.

TL;DR: An unprecedented global synthesis of over 100 experiments that manipulated factors linked to GCDs shows that herbaceous plant community responses depend on experimental manipulation length and number of factors manipulated, and finds that plant communities are fairly resistant to experimentally manipulated G CDs in the short term.

TL;DR: Effects of elevated concentrations of CO2 on an understory plant community in terms of production and community composition are described and community responses to a future, CO2 -enriched atmosphere may be mediated by other environmental factors and will depend on individual species responses.