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Restoring Degraded Lands
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Land degradation continues to be an enormous challenge to human societies, reducing food security, emitting greenhouse gases and aerosols, driving the loss of biodiversity, polluting water, and undermining a wide range of ecosystem services beyond food supply and water and climate regulation. Climate change will exacerbate several degradation processes. Investment in diverse restoration efforts, including sustainable agricultural and forest land management, as well as land set aside for conservation wherever possible, will generate co-benefits for climate change mitigation and adaptation and morebroadly for human and societal well-being and the economy. This review highlights the magnitude of the degradation problem and some of the key challenges for ecological restoration. There are biophysical as well as societal limits to restoration. Better integrating policies to jointly address poverty, land degradation, and greenhouse gas emissions and removals is fundamental to reducing many existing barriers and contributing to climate-resilient sustainable development.
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TL;DR
Land degradation is a widespread challenge driven mainly by socioeconomic factors, and climate change is expected to exacerbate it while degradation itself contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. Restoration and sustainable land management can deliver climate mitigation, adaptation, and broader co-benefits, but adoption barriers and hard ecological/social limits remain.
Key findings
- Approximately 70–75% of the ice-free land area is affected by human use, nearly 50% intensively; degradation negatively impacts livelihoods in more than a quarter of the Earth’s ice-free land area, with possibly up to 3.2 (1.3–3.2) billion people affected globally, and about 500 (±120) million people live in or near desertification hotspots.
- Since 1961, crop production increased about 3.5-fold and animal product production 2.5-fold, enabled by fertilizer inputs (+800%) and freshwater withdrawals (+100%); population rose from 3.0 to 7.8 billion by 2020, while per capita calorie intake increased 32%.
- Restoration and sustainable land management can yield economic returns: case studies found each US$1 invested in land restoration could yield US$3–$6 in societal economic returns over 30 years; forest restoration increased biodiversity by 15–84% and vegetation structure by 36–77% above degraded ecosystems, though values remained below old-growth forests.
- Risks exist: large-scale afforestation/reforestation or bioenergy can backfire through biodiversity loss, food-production trade-offs, and land-use displacement; the Bonn Challenge aims to restore 3.5 Mkm² of forested landscapes by 2030, while 2019 voluntary restoration commitments totaled 230 million hectares of forest.
Methods
- This is a review/synthesis article; it draws on cited literature and IPCC/IPBES assessments and presents summary tables (Tables 1–2) and figures rather than primary data collection.
- Data/sample: Not stated in the paper as a primary dataset; the article synthesizes global and regional estimates from referenced studies and assessments.
- Main analysis: narrative synthesis of degradation drivers, climate interactions, restoration practices, governance, and policy, with no new empirical modeling or systematic review protocol reported.
Limitations
- The paper states soft barriers (human, social, economic, institutional, technological) and hard limits to restoration, including species already committed to extinction, habitat loss from sea-level rise, and possible tipping points such as climate-driven desertification or permafrost collapse; return to pristine historical states may be difficult or impossible.
- The paper states uncertainties and a lack of restoration scenarios, noting that attribution of climate change as a degradation driver is complicated by concurrent CO₂ increases and regional variability, and that measuring mitigation-adaptation co-benefits is technically complex, expensive, and may take years to decades.
- Evident from the text: as a review, reported estimates depend on cited sources with differing definitions and methods (e.g., forest area, wetland extent), and no systematic search or quality appraisal is described.
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67 Own interpretation · 61 Partly supported · 57 No full text of the sources · 31 Sources not found · 23 Supported · 14 No basis given · 9 Couldn’t confirm · 6 Supported so far · 4 Not checked yet · 3 Not supported · 1 Own result · accuracy not yet measured
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In the paper
“The shift from conventional agriculture, characterized by frequent tillage and complete removal of vegetation for parts of the season, to regenerative (or conservation) agriculture is particularly promising and universally applicable (104).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.1. Principles of Sustainable Land Management and Contribution to Restoration/Rehabilitation
What the sources say
- Disputedcites [104] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Section 5.6, “Practices of sustainable agriculture” (page unavailable), says practices must be tailored to each case and that there is no “one size fits all” approach. Section 5.6.1, “Conservation agriculture” (page unavailable), also reports variable outcomes depending on conditions, contrary to the claim of universal applicability. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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In the paper
“Land conversions (i.e., replacement of forests with cropland and pastures) and land management [i.e., harvesting of timber from managed forests or removal of herbaceous biomass through grazing (9)] almost equally cause these differences.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2. DRIVERS OF DEGRADATION AND IMPACTS
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [9] source
The Abstract states that land-cover conversion accounts for 53–58% and land management for 42–47% of the difference between potential and actual vegetation biomass stocks—an almost equal contribution. The Methods section, “Attribution to land management and land-cover conversions,” explains how those categories were assigned and notes that the separation is a proxy. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“For instance, land degradation is of great concern for oceans, manifested by the now more than 500 dead coastal marine zones where excessive nutrient runoff from agriculture has contributed to the collapse of coastal marine ecosystems (5).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 1. DEGREE AND TRENDS IN DEGRADATION
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [5] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The passages labeled Abstract (page unavailable) link agricultural runoff and nutrient inputs to coastal hypoxia and report massive coral-reef mortality in a documented event. But the paper lists 494 coastal dead zones, not more than 500, and does not say that agricultural runoff caused the collapse of ecosystems in all of them. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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In the paper
“Removal of deadwood as part of forest management has also been associated with reducing habitat diversity for numerous species (20).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.1. Forests
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [20] source
In “The reduction of deadwood,” the paper describes deadwood removal during forest management and states that reducing deadwood leads to a decline in associated biodiversity. “Deadwood in natural forests” also describes the varied deadwood structures and microhabitats used by dependent species. Together, these support the paraphrase about reduced habitat diversity for numerous species. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“The latter is estimated at 11.3 Mkm 2 in 2000 (9)”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.3. Intensively Managed Grazing Land
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [9] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Extended Data Table 1 gives an area of 11.3 Mkm² for artificial grasslands, and Methods (‘Actual biomass stock maps 1 and 2’) defines these as grasslands on potentially forested areas. The paper describes the underlying land-use dataset as present-day and derived from a year-2000 dataset, but does not explicitly date the 11.3 Mkm² estimate to 2000. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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In the paper
“Converted grassland holds biomass stocks that are less than 10% of the potential biomass stock (9).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.3. Intensively Managed Grazing Land
What the sources say
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Extended Data Table 1 reports a 94% difference between potential and actual biomass stocks for artificial grasslands, which the Methods define as grasslands on potential forest sites. That leaves actual stocks at about 6% of potential stocks, below the claimed 10%. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“Likewise, residue removal or whole-tree harvest can also cause soil disturbance, and remove root, stump, or bark biomass that would otherwise be part of soil organic matter cycling, including the formation of recalcitrant carbon pools (19).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.1. Forests
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [19] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Section 5 (Removal of harvest residues; page unavailable) identifies bark and roots as harvest residues and says stump harvesting causes additional soil disturbance and reduces root litter input. It does not establish that residue removal or whole-tree harvesting generally causes that disturbance. Section 5.2 (Gaps in knowledge and research needs; page unavailable) says the effects of residue management on labile and recalcitrant carbon pools need further study, so the claim about formation of recalcitrant pools is not established. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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In the paper
“Intensively used grasslands are relatively species-poor (34)”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.3. Intensively Managed Grazing Land
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [34] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results text (page not available in our copy) says land-use intensification reduced species richness for most aboveground groups. But it reports neutral or positive effects on belowground organisms, so the unqualified claim that intensively used grasslands are relatively species-poor overgeneralizes the finding. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“The extent of permanent pastures and meadows, the key category for which global statistical data are available (http://faostat.fao.org;any grazing land used for more than five consecutive years), spans 28 (33) to 34 Mkm², including extensively used natural grasslands (Section 2.2), intensively managed pastures and meadows established in natural grassland areas, as well as grassland that was estab”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.3. Intensively Managed Grazing Land
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [33] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Section 4.1 (§32) estimates 28.0 million km² of pasture and reports FAOSTAT’s 34.4 million km²; section 2.2 (§12) defines permanent pasture to include cultivated and wild forage land. Section 4.2 (§36) describes pasture replacing grasslands and forests. But the Discussion (§45) says the pasture data reveal nothing about grazing intensity, so the claim that pastures established in natural grassland areas are intensively managed is not supported. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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In the paper
“Given that at present humans withdraw approximately 2,500-3,200 km 3 a -1 , these numbers paint at first sight a relatively encouraging picture.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.6. Rivers
What the sources say
- Could not verifycites [55] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The ‘A Basis for a PB on Water’ section gives 3,200 km³/year as a modeled planetary-boundary estimate, not a measurement of present human withdrawals. The ‘Model Variability and Limitations’ section reports runoff and water-availability estimates. Searches for 2,500 and current withdrawals found no passage giving the claimed withdrawal range; page numbers were unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.78)
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“Since the Neolithic Revolution some 12,000 years ago, the upper 2 m of soils are estimated to have lost almost 116 GtC, of which 37 GtC have been attributed to croplands and associated vegetation cover classes (39).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.4. Croplands
What the sources say
- Disputedcites [39] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results and Discussion section (page unavailable) estimates 133 Pg C lost from the upper 2 m of soil, not almost 116 GtC. It attributes 35 Pg C, not 37 GtC, to the cropland and crop/natural vegetation mosaic categories. The source supports the historical scope and soil depth, but gives contrary figures for both quantities. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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In the paper
“However, increasing forest areas also led to the contraction and further intensification of cropland and pastureland, in some scenarios causing negative impacts on many carbon and biodiversity hotspots in the Americas, India, and Indonesia due to land-use displacement (Section 4.2).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.5. Lack of Restoration Scenarios for Climate Change/Biodiversity Projections
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“For instance, soil disturbance accompanying clear-cutting reduces soil carbon on average by approximately 10% with much larger losses in forest floor and organic soil horizons (19).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.1. Forests
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [19] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Section 4 (Harvesting; page not provided) reports average soil-carbon losses of 8% and 11.2% after harvesting, with larger losses in forest-floor and organic horizons. But it does not attribute those average losses specifically to soil disturbance accompanying clear-cutting; it principally relates losses to reduced carbon inputs and/or faster decomposition. Section 6 discusses soil disturbance from site preparation separately. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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In the paper
“associated above-ground carbon losses have been estimated to increase estimates of gross deforestation losses by approximately 25% up to >600% (17), with additional, unknown amounts of carbon lost from soils.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.1. Forests
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [17] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results (Fig. 2; page unavailable) report a 626% increase over the forest-clearance estimate, but that figure includes forgone carbon removals as well as emissions from degradation. It does not establish a range starting at approximately 25% for above-ground degradation losses. The soil-carbon clause follows the citation in the citing sentence, so it is not treated as attributed to this source. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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In the paper
“However, climate change impacts (including also the effects of increasing atmospheric CO 2 concentration) can, in cases where other factors are not limiting, also increase forest productivity, resulting in, for example, faster tree growth (13) or elevating treelines in mountain regions (14).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.1. Forests
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [13] source
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Citation 14 is attached to the treeline example, not the faster-growth example. The Introduction describes upward treeline shifts as a predicted response to climate change, and the Discussion reports treeline advances while noting that local conditions affect where they occur. The paper does not establish a specific climatic driver for every observed advance, but the citing sentence says climate change can elevate treelines, not that it always does. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Currently approximately one-quarter to one-third of the total potential net primary production on land is used by humans, i.e., of the net primary productivity (NPP) that would prevail in the absence of land use [estimated at approximately 60 GtC a -1 (6)]”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2. DRIVERS OF DEGRADATION AND IMPACTS
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [6] source
The Global Changes in HANPP section reports that human appropriation reached 25% of potential NPP in 2005, within the claimed one-quarter-to-one-third range. The paper defines potential NPP as production in the absence of human land use and, in Table 1, reports estimates of 54, 66, and 75 GtC/year, consistent with an approximate 60 GtC/year figure. The indexed passages do not provide page numbers. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“less than 40% of forest area has been estimated to contain old-growth forest [in Reference 18, forests identified to be older than 140 years].”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.1. Forests
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [18] source
The Abstract defines old-growth stands as more than 140 years old and estimates 16.5 million km² of old-growth forest versus 26.3 million km² of regrowth forest in 2010. Old-growth therefore accounts for about 38.6% of the forest area reported, below 40%. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“N 2 O emissions are generally associated with increased use of (mostly mineral) fertilizer, which (on an expanding area of cropland) has been estimated to have contributed >80% of the N 2 O emission increase since the 1860s (43).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.4. Croplands
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [43] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results passage on cropland emissions (page unavailable) estimates that increased cropland soil N₂O emissions accounted for 82% of the global soil-emission increase from the 1860s to the recent decade. The ‘Contributions of factors responsible for the increased N₂O emissions’ section also identifies fertilizer addition as a contributor. But the 82% figure is for cropland emissions, not the share caused by mostly mineral fertilizer on expanding cropland; the paper assesses manure, deposition, climate and other factors separately. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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In the paper
“Deadwood is especially important as a living environment for insects and wood-inhabiting fungi but also affects higher trophic levels through related food webs (20).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.1. Forests
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [20] source
The section “The importance of deadwood for biodiversity” describes deadwood as insect habitat and says it promotes diversity at higher trophic levels by increasing food resources. The Figure 2 caption identifies a wood-inhabiting fungus in deadwood, and the Figure 4 caption describes deadwood-associated invertebrates as food for woodpeckers. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“Overview of key sustainable land management practices that contribute strongly to halting and reversing degradation and with notable co-benefits for climate change mitigation and/or adaptation.Sources: see References 3, 4, 62, 67, 96, 147”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.3. Intensively Managed Grazing Land
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites [3] Olsson L, 2019
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
- Not matchedcites [4] Mirzabaev A, 2019
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- Partly supportedcites [62] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Section 2.3 (p. 10) says some land-management activities create CO₂ sinks, and the Discussion (p. 32) notes the importance of land-use emissions for climate mitigation strategies. The paper does not establish that key sustainable land-management practices strongly halt or reverse degradation, or that they provide adaptation co-benefits. (LLM, conf=0.81)
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- Rests on an assumption: Grassland degradation is a widespread phenomenon, with overgrazing being a key driver, together with frequent wheel traffic, or overfertilization, all of which result in changes in sward composition, reduction in yields, and deterioration of soils.
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“For instance, dryland areas have high climatic variability, with periods of dry and wet climates, and corresponding cycles of greening and browning, most famously in the Sahel region (29,30).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.2. Grasslands and Savannahs
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [29] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The opening summary (pp. 1–11) describes Sahel droughts in the 1970s and 1980s, followed by increased rainfall and vegetation greening. It supports the Sahel example, but does not establish recurring greening-and-browning cycles or extend that pattern to drylands generally. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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The Introduction (pp. 1–2) describes drought-associated reductions in Sahelian vegetation productivity followed by vegetation recovery, and attributes much of the apparent degradation to climate variability. The Conclusions (p. 21) likewise report increased greenness after more favorable climate returned. These passages support the Sahel as an example of climate-linked browning and greening. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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In the paper
“natural temperate grasslands are now reduced to a fraction of their original area and are considered one of the most endangered biomes in the world (27,28).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.2. Grasslands and Savannahs
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [27] source
- Could not verifycites [28] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction describes permanent grasslands as biodiversity hot spots, but does not say natural temperate grasslands have shrunk to a fraction of their original area or rank among the most endangered biomes. Searches for their original extent, loss, and endangered status found no passage addressing those claims in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.70)
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In the paper
“However, the large historic loss of soil carbon implies that agricultural systems have a significant capacity to take up CO 2 from the atmosphere and to store it in the form of soil carbon with a wide range of co-benefits in addition to climate change mitigation (40).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.4. Croplands
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- Supportedcites [40] source
The Abstract (page unavailable) says that 60% of the soil-carbon mitigation potential it estimates comes from rebuilding depleted stocks, including potential in agriculture and grasslands. It also describes removing atmospheric CO2 and delivering ecosystem services beyond climate mitigation; “Looking forward” names improved soil fertility and climate resilience as co-benefits. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“The total amount of carbon stored in wetlands and peatlands has been estimated at approximately 1,500 GtC, approximately 30-40% of the global terrestrial carbon stock (44,45).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.5. Wetlands and Peatlands
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [44] source
- Partly supportedcites [45] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Section 1 and the Summary Points describe peatlands as major carbon stores and estimate that they contain 500–700 GtC. The paper does not give the claimed 1,500 GtC estimate for wetlands and peatlands together or the figure of 30–40% of global terrestrial carbon stock. No page numbers are available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“The lack of formal protection, therefore, is of concern; tropical grassy biomes have a substantially lower proportion of protected areas than tropical forest, often with individual areas under protection that are far too small (26).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.2. Grasslands and Savannahs
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [26] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
In “Tropical grassy biomes in protected areas” (page unavailable), the paper reports that 13% of tropical grassy biomes are protected, versus 24% of tropical forest. It also explains why protected areas need to be large and discusses small areas in fragmented landscapes, but does not establish that individual protected areas are often too small. The paper qualifies the overall protection gap: outside the Neotropics, the two biomes receive proportionally similar protection. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“The key human drivers of grassland and savannah degradation include expansion of cropped areas or conversion to intensive pasture systems (Section 2.3) (27), reduced livestock mobility and overgrazing, and-in savannahs-fuelwood extraction (4,31).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.2. Grasslands and Savannahs
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [27] source
- Not matchedcites [4] Mirzabaev A, 2019
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
- Partly supportedcites [31] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The paper’s “Drivers of Change” section says land-use change and intensification disrupt tropical grassy biomes, and that roads and fences prohibit large-scale animal movements. Its “Human use and value” discussion identifies fuelwood harvesting as significant, but says its sustainability varies; the copy does not identify reduced livestock mobility, overgrazing, and fuelwood extraction together as key drivers of degradation, or specifically describe conversion to intensive pasture systems. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“Global CH 4 emissions have risen rapidly since 2007, with a further acceleration after 2014 (50).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.5. Wetlands and Peatlands
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [50] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results and Figure 3 discussion report that atmospheric methane growth resumed in 2007 and became stronger from 2014 (page numbers not supplied). But Section 5 says the causes remain uncertain and may involve changes in emissions, sinks, or both; the paper does not establish that global emissions themselves accelerated. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Estimates of the current and recent areal extent of wetlands vary substantially, from under 2% to over 20% of the global land area (46).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.5. Wetlands and Peatlands
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [46] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction (p. 2) describes substantially varying wetland estimates and reports that satellite imagery places permanent water coverage as low as 1.6% of land. Section 2.5.2 (p. 8) reports a wetland estimate of 22.6%, but identifies it as potential extent that does not account for human-caused losses. The claimed range therefore draws on different measures, rather than estimates of current or recent wetland extent throughout. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Changes in river flow regimes, but also pollution inflow from agricultural fields, can increase algal biomass; reduce invertebrate richness, abundance, and density; and alter organic matter decomposition (58).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.6. Rivers
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [58] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion (page unavailable) reports that human-driven water stress increased algal biomass, reduced invertebrate richness, abundance and density, and reduced organic matter breakdown. It links these effects chiefly to altered flows from dams and water abstraction; the passages do not establish pollution inflow from agricultural fields as a cause of those outcomes. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Restoring already degraded wetlands can sequester carbon on a century scale, albeit at an often relatively slow pace and possibly at the expense of increased CH 4 emissions (53), but with large potential to improve conditions for biodiversity (54).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.5. Wetlands and Peatlands
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- Partly supportedcites [53] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Section 3.5 reports that restored wetlands sequestered carbon and that methane emissions delayed net greenhouse-gas benefits for at least half a century, with the wetlands becoming net atmospheric sinks after a century or more. It does not establish that carbon sequestration itself proceeds slowly; the century-scale delay concerns climate benefit after the methane burden, and the paper describes the restored wetlands as sizeable carbon sinks. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“Vegetation fires are an important ecological feature of most land ecosystems and are used as a management tool but also often negatively affect human societies through, e.g., losses of properties and lives and local and long-range air pollution (75).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.2. Wildfire
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- Partly supportedcites [75] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction (page unavailable) describes fire as fundamental to most terrestrial ecosystems, notes its use as a management tool, and says recent fires have had negative consequences for humans. Section 6.3 (page unavailable) says smoke affects human health and travels beyond burn perimeters. Our copy does not specifically substantiate the claimed losses of property and lives. (LLM, conf=0.84)
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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“Groundwater recharge is expected to respond to climate change with increases during wet, winter periods and declines during dry, summer periods; overall declines are expected in more arid locations (72).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.1. Drought
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [72] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Section 3.3 (page unavailable) projects dry-season declines for Bandung and Ho Chi Minh City and wet-season increases for Bangkok, supporting parts of the seasonal pattern. It does not equate wet and dry seasons with winter and summer or predict overall declines for arid locations. The pattern is not general across the four cities: Lahore’s recharge increases in both seasons, with the larger increase in the dry season. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Analyses of remotely sensed vegetation greenness (and vegetation browning) as well as model-based studies found that climate change has contributed to degradation chiefly in regions located around 15-45 o S, although studies disagree regarding the exact region of impact (36,60,61).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3. DIRECT AND INDIRECT IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [36] source
- Partly supportedcites [60] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The passage on regional climate effects (section labeled Abstract; no page given) says climatic effects are negative in some regions and that South America is the only continent where negative effects were statistically significant. It also reports inconsistency between models. It does not establish that degradation occurred chiefly at 15–45°S or that studies disagree about the exact region affected. (LLM, conf=0.84)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [61] source
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“These are difficult to gauge and difficult to compare, which often prevents the assessment of co-benefits or trade-offs (101, 103).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4. CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION CO-BENEFITS ARISING FROM AVOIDING FURTHER DEGRADATION AND INCREASING RESTORATION
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [101] source
- Supportedcites [103] source
Section 5 says benefits of nature-based solutions are rarely accounted for because they can be difficult to monetize, and that appraisals rarely factor in trade-offs. It also says measuring and comparing intervention outcomes is extremely challenging, supporting the cited point about difficulty assessing co-benefits and trade-offs. (LLM, conf=0.87)
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“The overall frequency of tropical cyclones may not change, or may even decrease with continued climate change, but high intensity cyclones are expected to increase in number and intensity as well as the amount and intensity of rainfall (87,88).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.3. Rainfall Extremes and Flood
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [87] source
- Supportedcites [88] source
The introductory passage reports that models suggest more intense tropical cyclones in the future, despite uncertainty about overall cyclone frequency. The Discussion reports future intensification and increased rainfall in the studied storms, while the TC rainfall section reports more extremely intense rainfall rates under warming. Page numbers are not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.91)
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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“As a co-benefit, these practices also enhance ecosystem carbon sinks and food security as well as deliver multiple other co-benefits (63), with positive changes in areas totaling globally greater than 10 Mkm 2 (63).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.1. Principles of Sustainable Land Management and Contribution to Restoration/Rehabilitation
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [63] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion (Co-delivery across the land challenges; page unavailable) says most agricultural land-management practices have benefits across the four land challenges, while noting exceptions for food security. The Results (Potential of practices for addressing land degradation and desertification; page unavailable) say more than 10 million km² could benefit from improved management—not that positive changes have already occurred across that area. The citing sentence presents these potential benefits as established outcomes. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“These analyses demonstrate that regionally adapted restoration activities have large potential to support climate change mitigation while simultaneously reducing climate change impacts on ecosystems and people, with added benefits for multiple ecosystem services.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4. CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION CO-BENEFITS ARISING FROM AVOIDING FURTHER DEGRADATION AND INCREASING RESTORATION
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- Partly supportedcites [97] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion (page not provided) says carbon conservation could mitigate climate change while benefiting biodiversity and other ecosystem services, and recommends regional-to-local conservation planning. It does not demonstrate that regionally adapted restoration activities reduce climate-change impacts on ecosystems and people; its analyses concern conservation priorities, not restoration outcomes. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Partly supportedcites [98] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Discussion (p. 14) reports substantial climate-mitigation and biodiversity benefits from spatially planned restoration in the Atlantic Forest, and the Discussion (p. 12) identifies potential local ecosystem-service benefits. But the Results (p. 10) say climate-change adaptation *might* benefit from more resilient ecosystems; the paper does not demonstrate that restoration reduces climate-change impacts on ecosystems and people. (LLM, conf=0.85)
- Partly supportedcites [99] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The paper’s summary and its section on synergies between forest-based carbon emission reduction and biodiversity conservation describe modeled REDD+ scenarios with climate-mitigation and biodiversity benefits. They do not establish that regionally adapted restoration reduces climate-change impacts on ecosystems and people or provides benefits across multiple ecosystem services; the analysis concerns allocation of REDD+ funds, not those restoration outcomes. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“Likewise, the reduction of negative impacts, which reflects successful adaptation, could be quantified, e.g., in terms of enhanced assets and livelihoods; in resources (food, water) security, health, cultural, or spiritual well-being; or in conservation and biodiversity (101, 102).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4. CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION CO-BENEFITS ARISING FROM AVOIDING FURTHER DEGRADATION AND INCREASING RESTORATION
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [101] source
- Partly supportedcites [102] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
Section 2.3 defines adaptation outcomes as reduced harm or risk, and section 3.3 identifies assets, livelihoods, food security, resource security, and health as outcome dimensions. But section 3.3 mentions culture and spirituality only as part of an earlier typology, while sections 3.5 and 4 treat conservation and biodiversity as intervention components rather than the adaptation outcomes measured here. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Under current climatic conditions, erosion and nutrient leakage from agricultural land is substantial and an important cause of deterioration of marine and terrestrial aquatic ecosystems (84,85).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.3. Rainfall Extremes and Flood
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [84] Wang Z-H, 2019 source
- Partly supportedcites [85] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction and §3.1 describe agricultural nutrient leakage as a major contributor to eutrophication and degraded inland and coastal waters. §2 identifies erosion as a pathway for nutrient loss, but the passages do not establish that erosion itself is substantial under current climatic conditions. (LLM, conf=0.82)
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“But the intensification of the hydrological cycle as a result of warming of the atmosphere is well understood, and the effect has been detected in climatic time series for several decades.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.3. Rainfall Extremes and Flood
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [82] source
- Could not verifycites [83] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The supplied passages are bibliographic material, not discussion of the hydrological cycle. Searches of the indexed copy for atmospheric warming, hydrological-cycle intensification, and detection in climatic time series found no passage addressing either part of the claim. (LLM, conf=0.72)
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In the paper
“The overall frequency of tropical cyclones may not change, or may even decrease with continued climate change, but high intensity cyclones are expected to increase in number and intensity as well as the amount and intensity of rainfall (87,88).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.3. Rainfall Extremes and Flood
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [87] source
- Supportedcites [88] source
The passage labeled Abstract (page not supplied) says there is no consensus on future global tropical cyclone frequency: most climate models project fewer cyclones, while others project more. This supports the claim's cautious statement that overall frequency may stay the same or decrease. (LLM, conf=0.93)
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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“Sustainable cultivation of lignocellulosic energy crops provides a financial return, while at the same time supporting the rehabilitation of degraded lands and restoring productivity (125).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.4. Economic Aspects
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- Partly supportedcites [125] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The paper’s Lesson 3 (page unavailable) calls for restoring damaged land to its pre-project agricultural capability, and Lesson 8 describes pasture establishment as a way to restore soil function. These passages support the rehabilitation and productivity aspect, but do not establish that cultivating lignocellulosic energy crops achieves it or provides a financial return. (LLM, conf=0.79)
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Afforestation and reforestation are considered relatively cost-effective climate change mitigation options (96).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.2. Reforestation/Afforestation Are Not Necessarily the Same as Restoration
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- Supportedcites [96] source
Section 4.2 (Costs; page not provided) says afforestation and reforestation can be available at low, zero, or even negative cost in some places, supporting the broad characterization as relatively cost-effective mitigation options. It also notes that their costs rise as deployment expands. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Exotic monoculture plantations have little or no benefit for biodiversity, or they can even be detrimental if the planted species becomes invasive (115).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.2. Reforestation/Afforestation Are Not Necessarily the Same as Restoration
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- Partly supportedcites [115] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction (p. 2) says non-native trees can harm nature conservation when they become invasive, supporting the second half of the claim. It does not say exotic monoculture plantations generally have little or no biodiversity benefit: the habitat-restoration section (p. 22) says some alien-tree plantations remain monocultures, while the Introduction also notes that planted forests can support biodiversity conservation. (LLM, conf=0.88)
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Energy crops can enhance the biodiversity of degraded lands, especially if native species are included and/or if perennial grasses and woody crops enhance habitat diversity in what are otherwise large cropland monocultures (109).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.1. Principles of Sustainable Land Management and Contribution to Restoration/Rehabilitation
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- Supportedcites [109] source
In “The importance of initial land use,” the review reports biodiversity benefits when degraded or marginal land is converted, while cautioning that outcomes depend on the land’s existing biodiversity. “Better management practices” identifies native species as a biodiversity-friendly practice, and “Drivers and pressures” and “Land-use planning and landscape design” describe habitat and landscape benefits from perennial crops, including trees, in intensive cropland. Page numbers were not provided in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“However, the need for dynamic conservation strategies was not considered in the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, nor is it being considered in the current draft of the post-Aichi objectives (144).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.3. Dealing With Uncertain Futures
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- Partly supportedcites [144] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
In “Climate Change and Global Biodiversity Targets” (page unavailable), the paper says Aichi Target 11 and the corresponding draft post-2020 targets may lead to static protected-area approaches, although flexible, dynamic measures are needed. It says the draft targets *might* lead to static approaches, not that the need for dynamic conservation was wholly unconsidered across the draft objectives; the citing sentence overstates that conclusion. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“However, the commitments of approximately a quarter of countries are larger than the existing forest or agricultural areas in those countries, which implies the need for enormous transformation in current land-use practices and agricultural and forest economies (137; see also Section 4.2).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.1. Restoration and International Policy Targets and Objectives
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plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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“Establishing financial mechanisms for compensating land users for SLM and improved delivery of ecosystem services, e.g., through payments for ecosystem services, could provide a much-needed incentive for increased investment into land restoration and rehabilitation (111, 127, 128).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.4. Economic Aspects
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- Partly supportedcites [111] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
In “Challenges to Agroforestry Adoption” (page unavailable), the paper says that some agroforestry practices may need markets that compensate land users for ecosystem services to make financial sense. “Moving Forward—Policy and Research Needs” (page unavailable) also proposes credits for environmental services to encourage adoption. These passages support the proposed financial incentive, but they do not extend it to sustainable land management generally or explicitly link it to increased investment in land restoration and rehabilitation. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“Enhancing synergies and reducing trade-offs can be achieved by (a) policy decisions and implementation that consider cross-disciplinary scientific knowledge on natural, economic, and societal aspects and (b) mapping and quantification of stakeholder choices in relation to various ecosystem service choices (139).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.1. Restoration and International Policy Targets and Objectives
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- Partly supportedcites [139] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction (page unavailable) describes an ecosystem-services framework that bridges disciplines and incorporates human decisions and values into natural-resource management. The paper also discusses working with policy and practice, but it does not establish that these steps enhance synergies or reduce trade-offs, or describe mapping and quantifying stakeholder choices to achieve that result. A search for “trade-offs” found only a comment about understanding them, not reducing them. (LLM, conf=0.82)
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Partly supported
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In the paper
“They found that meeting these targets would require an increase in global tree cover of 4 million km² that would increase forest carbon stocks by 50 Gt and protect 28% of the terrestrial surface with high biodiversity and carbon values.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.5. Lack of Restoration Scenarios for Climate Change/Biodiversity Projections
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [130] source
The Abstract reports that meeting the modeled global land restoration and protection targets would increase tree cover by 4 million km², forest carbon stocks by 50 Gt, and protect 28% of terrestrial area with the highest biodiversity and carbon-storage value. The claim accurately paraphrases those findings. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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In the paper
“Rather than making fixed and irreversible decisions now, alternative climate change mitigation and restoration pathways could explore the future outcomes of decision-making when accounting for climate or socioeconomic developments, new knowledge or technologies, and changing societal values (145).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.3. Dealing With Uncertain Futures
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites [145] sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Introduction supports flexible decisions that adapt as conditions unfold, and §2.2 describes evaluating alternative policy pathways and monitoring developments that trigger later actions. The Waas case considers climate and land-use scenarios. The paper addresses climate adaptation and flood management, however, not mitigation or restoration pathways; the cited passages also do not establish changing societal values or new knowledge as factors evaluated in those pathways. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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- Partly supported
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In the paper
“Scown et al. (129), who estimated that subsidies in the CAP (common agricultural policy) supported high-pollution practices in agriculture and low nature-value farmland, as well as increasing income inequality.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.4. Economic Aspects
What the sources say
- Supportedcites [129] source
In “CAP Payments Compared with Social and Environmental Needs” (page unavailable), the paper reports that substantial CAP income support went to high-GHG-emitting regions and regions with little high-nature-value farmland. The same section explicitly concludes that current payments increase income inequality within agriculture. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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In the paper
“Improved forest management For example, improved tree varieties, mixed forests, reduced disturbance when harvesting, selective logging Enhance forest carbon content; reduced risks from insects/pathogens; habitat for biodiversity 0.4-2.1 >25 Access to knowledge, technology”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.3. Intensively Managed Grazing Land
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Biochar addition Add biochar to agricultural soils Enhanced soil structure, water-and nutrientholding capacity and enhance long-term carbon storage Mitigation estimate is net across supply chain from feedstock production to soil application, including avoided emissions and carbon sequestered.0.03-6.6(Plausible to technical potential) 0.5-2 (Sustainable potential) Up to 3,200 unless arable land w”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.3. Intensively Managed Grazing Land
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In the paper
“Integrated water management Increase irrigation effi ciency Reduce competition for drinking water; reduce water pollution; reduce pressure on freshwater biodiversity 0.1-0.72 250 Access to fi nance, technology”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.3. Intensively Managed Grazing Land
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In the paper
“Reduced deforestation/ degradation Stop conversion of forests and savannahs into agricultural systems Maintain carbon stocks and uptake potential; fl ood control; habitat for biodiversity 0.5-5.81-25 Government regulation; land-use zoning and planning; alternative income opportunities to forest-dependent communities; weak law enforcement to protect forests and dependent communities”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.3. Intensively Managed Grazing Land
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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“Restoration/ reduced conversion of inland wetlands and peatlands Remove drainage systems in former peatlands; create/ maintain natural dams Enhance net carbon content (balance of CO 2 uptake and CH 4 emissions); fl ood regulation; habitat for biodiversity 0.6-2 Unknown Government regulation, restoration requirements; alternative income opportunities to wetlanddependent communities; weak law enforc”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.3. Intensively Managed Grazing Land
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In the paper
“Reforestation/ restoration Foster natural forest regrowth or planting of mixed-species forests on former cropland or pastures that are naturally forested Enhance forest carbon content; reduced risks from insects/pathogens; habitat for biodiversity 1.5-10.1 >25 Access to knowledge, fi nance and technology”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.3. Intensively Managed Grazing Land
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Fire management Foster controlled burning; minimize risks of extreme wildfi res Reduce risk of large-scale forest (and property) loss and fi re-related ecosystem shifts; maintain ecological role of fi re 0.5-8.1 >6 Government regulation, restoration requirements”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.3. Intensively Managed Grazing Land
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Although changes in carbon pool sizes do not necessarily imply a loss of productivity, they nonetheless indicate a loss of ecological integrity, including loss of biodiversity and altered ecosystem functioning and services (see the sidebar titled A Short Reflection on Terminology).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2. DRIVERS OF DEGRADATION AND IMPACTS
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In the paper
“Annual forestry harvest has continuously increased since the early 1960s, and in the first decades of the twenty-first century amounts to approximately 1 GtC a -1 (1,8).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2. DRIVERS OF DEGRADATION AND IMPACTS
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites [1] Arneth A, 2019
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- Not matchedcites [8] 2020
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In the paper
“Avoiding, reducing, and reversing land degradation needs to be part of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies, with many possible co-benefits for ecosystems and human societies.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 1. DEGREE AND TRENDS IN DEGRADATION
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In the paper
“Climate change contributes to forest degradation; e.g., drought and heat stress increase regeneration failure and tree mortality.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.1. Forests
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In the paper
“Drivers of degradation include very short-term events [such as rainstorms causing erosion (10)] as well as slow processes that accumulate over years and decades (such as nutrient losses or loss in biodiversity), interacting with management and land-use change”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2. DRIVERS OF DEGRADATION AND IMPACTS
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [10] source
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“As a consequence, restoration measures (Sections 4 and 5) work best if the short-term, often weather-driven impacts are alleviated and the long-term impacts are addressed”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2. DRIVERS OF DEGRADATION AND IMPACTS
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In the paper
“Although harvested above-ground biomass and litter carbon recovers in regrowing vegetation, the impacts of forest management on soil processes are longer term and much more difficult to quantify.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.1. Forests
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“A meta-analysis of studies found that heavy grazing decreases soil organic carbon content in grassland dominated by vegetation of the C3 photosynthetic pathway and increased soil organic carbon content in mixed and C4 photosynthetic-type grasslands (37).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.3. Intensively Managed Grazing Land
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [37] source
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“These drivers of grassland degradation also limit the adaptive capacities of pastoral communities, making them severely vulnerable to climate change, degradation, and continuing marginalization in favor of crop production (4).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.2. Grasslands and Savannahs
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites [4] Mirzabaev A, 2019
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plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Rests on an assumption: These grasslands represent the key source of livelihoods for approximately 100 million to 200 million pastoralists around the world.
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In the paper
“Improved access to financial markets creates more possibilities for obtaining credit to invest in SLM measures, and insurance can reduce associated risks.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.2. Grasslands and Savannahs
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. It may state two separate claims as one.
In the paper
“Using biological productivity (e.g., NPP; see the sidebar titled A Short Reflection on Terminology) as an indicator, degradation in numerous grasslands across Europe, North America, and Asia was found to be primarily caused directly by human activities, although climate change is also a strong contributing factor (36) (Section 3).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.3. Intensively Managed Grazing Land
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [36] source
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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None of the sources cited for this claim have been checked yet.
In the paper
“30% of the approximately 46% (±0.8%) of the global land area defined as drylands are grassy ecosystems (22)(23)(24).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.2. Grasslands and Savannahs
What the sources say
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
In the paper
“Likewise, isolated trees in tropical savannahs support biodiversity in these ecosystems, as well as providing food and shelter to humans (25).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.2. Grasslands and Savannahs
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [25] source
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Crop management and soil moisture are also important determinants of emissions whereby waterlogging and soil compaction generally are associated with high CH 4 emissions (42).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.4. Croplands
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [42] source
plaincorrelational- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Similarly, better access to input and output markets lowers the costs of applied inputs (e.g., fertilizer) and transportation (e.g., for sales), ultimately increasing profit margins, which provides greater capacity for reinvestment in SLM.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.2. Grasslands and Savannahs
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Whereas ruminant livestock are the main source of CH 4 from the agricultural sector, rice cultivation is the most important source of CH 4 from agricultural soils (41).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.4. Croplands
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [41] Humphreys J, 2019, Geoderma Reg source
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. It may state two separate claims as one.
In the paper
“Others have argued that carbon sinks or sources in grasslands depend heavily on the previous land use, climate, and/or time since conversion (38).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.3. Intensively Managed Grazing Land
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [38] source
plaincorrelational- Asserted: fails — The authors may not put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“This large variation is due to the lack of an accepted definition of wetlands and difficulties in linking definitions with data sources.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.5. Wetlands and Peatlands
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“The most important human drivers of wetland decline are urbanization, drainage for agricultural expansion, and increasing use of irrigation in agriculture causing wetlands to dry (48).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.5. Wetlands and Peatlands
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [48] source
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Load-bearing: unclear — It is unclear whether the paper’s conclusions depend on it.
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In the paper
“Historical data on their areal extent are highly uncertain, but an estimated 87% of the world's wetlands were lost in the past 300 years, 54% since 1900 (47), and 35% since 1970 (48).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.5. Wetlands and Peatlands
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites [47] Prince S, 2018
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [48] source
hedged- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Climate change is projected to exacerbate the degradation of wetlands due to increasing evaporation and increasing demand for irrigation, as well as enhancing fire risks (49) (Section 3).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.5. Wetlands and Peatlands
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [49] source
plainconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“The building of dams alters habitats and results in biodiversity loss putting pressure on freshwater megafauna by blocking fish migration, range contraction, and population decline.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 2.6. Rivers
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Although wildfires that have coevolved with an ecosystem are not a degrading feature, there is concern that a change in fire regimes caused by climate change could negatively interfere with the integrity of an ecosystem, lead to changes in biome type, and cause increased risk to the human populations living in fire-prone environments.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.2. Wildfire
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Increasing droughts will cause stress to coastal and inland wetlands.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.1. Drought
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Frequently burned sites across continents were found to have up to tenfold less soil organic matter decomposing extracellular enzyme activity and up to 185% lower soil carbon and nitrogen concentrations due to reduced biomass inputs and reduced tree abundance (80).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.2. Wildfire
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [80] source
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Load-bearing: unclear — It is unclear whether the paper’s conclusions depend on it.
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In the paper
“Wildfires in boreal regions, which have experienced overproportional warming, can accelerate permafrost thaw and cause large carbon losses from vegetation and organic soils.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.2. Wildfire
plainconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.
None of the sources cited for this claim could be matched to a paper in Crossref, so there is nothing to check it against.
In the paper
“Although climate change has until now had relatively minor impacts on degradation, it is expected to become more important for degradation in the future (3, 4), exacerbating the effects of land-use change.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3. DIRECT AND INDIRECT IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites [3] Olsson L, 2019
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
- Not matchedcites [4] Mirzabaev A, 2019
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plainconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Not matched
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In the paper
“Droughts usually evolve relatively slowly, posing difficulties in identifying their onset and end (64), although the rapid onset of flash droughts is also possible (65).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.1. Drought
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [64] Wilhite D, 2017
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [65] source
hedgeddirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“Responding to droughts proactively by increasing the resilience of societies and ecosystems was found to be more efficient in limiting drought impacts than reactive drought relief efforts, which are still widely practiced across the world (4).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.1. Drought
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites [4] Mirzabaev A, 2019
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plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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“Ignition sources, vegetation characteristics, land use, fire management, and climate all play a role in determining the frequency, severity, and spread of wildfires.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.2. Wildfire
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“Measures to achieve mitigation in land ecosystems with immediate positive synergies with conservation and adaptation are foremost a reduction in the conversion of forest and nonforest (semi)natural ecosystems into intensively managed ecosystems, together with the restoration of ecosystems with large carbon sequestration potential.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4. CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION CO-BENEFITS ARISING FROM AVOIDING FURTHER DEGRADATION AND INCREASING RESTORATION
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“In mountainous regions, landslides and other impacts of intensive rainfall are often the major cause of climate-related loss of life and damage to property (90).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.3. Rainfall Extremes and Flood
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“Measuring and monitoring the success of combined mitigation-adaptation approaches is nontrivial; multiple and very different indicators need to be used that are cognizant of the agreements made in international conventions as well as capturing local consequences (101).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4. CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION CO-BENEFITS ARISING FROM AVOIDING FURTHER DEGRADATION AND INCREASING RESTORATION
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In the paper
“Acting immediately and simultaneously with regionally adjusted measures would enhance food, fiber, and water security, help to curb loss of biodiversity, as well as alleviate and reverse land degradation, without compromising the nonmaterial or regulating benefits from land ecosystems.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4. CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION CO-BENEFITS ARISING FROM AVOIDING FURTHER DEGRADATION AND INCREASING RESTORATION
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In the paper
“When faced with climate change, restoration will be about managing change, with a return to historical states hard or impossible to achieve.”
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“Likewise, removal of residues that would otherwise be retained on the soil surface increases the risk of soil erosion and depletes soil organic matter (93,94).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.4. Bioenergy
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“Demand for bioenergy is anticipated to grow along with demand for other renewables, especially bioenergy linked with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), which emerges in future scenarios as one of the few technologies that can deliver carbon dioxide removal at required scales.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.4. Bioenergy
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- Not matchedcites [91] IPCC (Intergov. Panel Clim. Change), 2018
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In the paper
“Biodiversity and productivity in forests are positively correlated globally (118).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.2. Reforestation/Afforestation Are Not Necessarily the Same as Restoration
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In the paper
“The overall impact on productivity (as an important degradation measure) will likely differ between regions and ecosystem types.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.3. Role of Wild Animals
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“These discussions mostly neglect the role of animals, despite their essential role in shaping habitat structure, ecosystem productivity, and nutrient cycling (122).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.3. Role of Wild Animals
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In the paper
“Practices that enhance soil carbon and nutrients in principle should deliver the same yields with less input and hence be more economically viable.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.4. Economic Aspects
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“In addition to the carbon removal during tree growth, Churkina et al. (112) recently estimated a large potential for using timber in construction, which decreases carbon emissions from concrete and steel production and provides long-term carbon storage in wood.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.2. Reforestation/Afforestation Are Not Necessarily the Same as Restoration
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In the paper
“In principle, two strategies apply (141): the revision of policies that impede restoration objectives and the introduction of targeted initiatives that could directly help remove the key barriers.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.2. Limits to Restoration
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [141] Wreford A, 2017 source
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“More than 120 countries have already committed to set land degradation neutrality targets (https://www.unccd.int/actions/ldn-target-setting- programme).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.1. Restoration and International Policy Targets and Objectives
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- Not matchedcites https://www.unccd.int/actions/ldn-target-setting- programme
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“Effective main-streaming of mitigation and adaptation in sustainable land and forest management needs to combine the advantages of centralized governance (notably coordination, stability, compliance) with those of more horizontal structures (that allow flexibility, autonomy for local decision-making, multistakeholder engagement, co-management) (133).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5. GOVERNANCE, POLICY, AND THE LIMITS TO RESTORATION
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- Not matchedcites [133] Acosta LA, 2018
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In the paper
“Climate change is expected to exacerbate degradation processes in many regions, while degradation-related greenhouse gas emissions and the loss of carbon sink capacity in turn contribute to climate change.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 6. CONCLUSION
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“Approximately 30% of government pledges in the NDCs are predicated on land-based measures to help achieve their climate change mitigation and/or adaptation goals, but many of the measures are not yet clearly defined (138).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.1. Restoration and International Policy Targets and Objectives
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- Not matchedcites [138] Seddon N, 2019
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In the paper
“Successful restoration will, therefore, be much more about managing change, with a return to a pristine historical ecosystem state in some places difficult or impossible to achieve.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.2. Limits to Restoration
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In the paper
“This highlighted the importance of targeted land-management measures that are consistent with policy targets of global restoration.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4.5. Lack of Restoration Scenarios for Climate Change/Biodiversity Projections
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In the paper
“restoration measures could also be aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.1. Restoration and International Policy Targets and Objectives
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In the paper
“Global leadership could advance such local initiatives.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5. GOVERNANCE, POLICY, AND THE LIMITS TO RESTORATION
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“Soft barriers to restoration include human (cognitive and behavioral obstacles), social (undermined participation in decision-making and inequity), economic (market failures, perverse incentives, lack of domestic funds), institutional (mal-coordination of policies, government failures, path-dependent institutions and a lack of cross-sectoral policy making), and technological (140).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.2. Limits to Restoration
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“The SSPs currently widely used in the global environmental change research community vary in their challenges to climate change adaptation and mitigation, but do not specify challenges to nature conservation, nor many of the critical drivers of ecosystem change.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.3. Dealing With Uncertain Futures
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In the paper
“These new models could be used to identify the environmental and societal co-benefits of considering multiple ecosystem services as part of human agency.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.3. Dealing With Uncertain Futures
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In the paper
“Nevertheless, the required efforts of coordination and societal and policy coherence are massive.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.2. Limits to Restoration
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In the paper
“Barriers specific to restoration may include a perceived lack of financial benefit, insufficient information or education, prohibitive costs of adoption, lack of access to credit, systems of uncertain land tenure, and lack of infrastructure or appropriate spatial planning (141) (Table 2).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.2. Limits to Restoration
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In the paper
“Given the challenges at hand, but also the multiple co-benefits from restoration, applying new modeling methods to novel scenario frameworks would help to identify plausible pathways that achieve multiple societal and political visions, while concurrently avoiding further degradation.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.3. Dealing With Uncertain Futures
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In the paper
“Many of these barriers can be addressed.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.2. Limits to Restoration
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In the paper
“Although there is climate change mitigation potential in restoring forests (and avoiding further deforestation), if done poorly, both land-based climate change mitigation measures and restoration measures could backfire.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.1. Restoration and International Policy Targets and Objectives
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“These measures also contribute to many SDGs, including 15 (through restored landscapes and protected forests and biodiversity), 13 (through carbon capture and storage and enhanced ecosystem resilience), and 1 (by increasing income from forest and agriculture sector).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.1. Restoration and International Policy Targets and Objectives
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- Rests on an assumption: Many synergies exist between restoration and key international policy areas that relate to nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation (UNFCCC), avoiding and reducing degradation and restoring degraded land (UNCCD), and the CBD and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
In the paper
“Future climate change will cause shifts in species distributions and ranges that may go beyond the boundaries of static protected areas and/or increase the number and frequency of episodic, forest stand-destroying events such as wildfire or insect and pest outbreaks (12).”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.3. Dealing With Uncertain Futures
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In the paper
“Impacts could cascade through SDGs due to trade-offs between land for climate mitigation versus food production, or between forest biomass-based livelihoods versus global carbon storage with impacts on poverty alleviation.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 5.1. Restoration and International Policy Targets and Objectives
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In the paper
“Land degradation is a ubiquitous challenge to human societies, driven mostly by socioeconomic factors.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 6. CONCLUSION
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In the paper
“Enhanced adoption of SLM technologies and the initiation of land restoration and rehabilitation activities will require overcoming numerous societal and economic barriers to provide the necessary incentive for increased investments in land restoration.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > FUTURE ISSUES
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In the paper
“Land-based solutions aimed only at greenhouse gas mitigation, such as large-scale afforestation or bioenergy plantations, are at risk of contributing to land degradation and can have other negative, unintended societal and environmental consequences.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 6. CONCLUSION
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In the paper
“Acting immediately and simultaneously with regionally adjusted measures to alleviate and reverse land degradation would enhance food, fiber, and water security and help to curb loss of biodiversity, without compromising the nonmaterial or regulating benefits from land.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > SUMMARY POINTS
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In the paper
“The success of land restoration activities can be promoted by the provision of incentive schemes such as payments for ecosystem services, although more research and experimentation is needed to test other options, especially in nonforest ecosystems.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > FUTURE ISSUES
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In the paper
“Governance is key to fostering successful restoration if it supports the identification and integration of the interests of all actors, but the degree of extant environmental change commitments and the rate of change can pose hard environmental and social limits.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > SUMMARY POINTS
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In the paper
“Synergies exist between fostering restoration in international policies and goals related to, for example, the Paris Agreement, land degradation neutrality targets, and the post-2020 biodiversity targets.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > FUTURE ISSUES
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“Investment in diverse restoration efforts, and land set aside for conservation, can generate co-benefits for climate change mitigation and adaptation, economically and more broadly for human and societal well-being.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > SUMMARY POINTS
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“Removing the existing barriers to their adaptation (such as financial incentives and the redirection of perverse subsidies, access to knowledge and technology, enforcement of environmental policies, appropriate spatial planning) requires multilevel governance supported by crossdisciplinary scientific knowledge of natural, economic, and societal drivers and impacts.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 6. CONCLUSION
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“Climate change is expected to increase in importance as a driver of degradation in the future, exacerbating the effects of land use and management.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > SUMMARY POINTS
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“However, multiple strands of evidence show that degradation can be halted and reversed with appropriate land management practices, which would deliver co-benefits for a range of sustainable development objectives.”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 6. CONCLUSION
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These grasslands represent the key source of livelihoods for approximately 100 million to 200 million pastoralists around the world.
“These grasslands represent the key source of livelihoods for approximately 100 million to 200 million pastoralists around the world.”
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Grasslands provide essential supporting, regulating, and cultural ecosystem functions and services.
“Grasslands also provide essential supporting, regulating, and cultural ecosystem functions and services.”
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Tropical grassy ecosystems harbor approximately half of the vascular plant richness found in tropical forests, and species richness for mammals, birds, and amphibians is also high.
“For instance, tropical grassy ecosystems harbor approximately half of the vascular plant richness found in tropical forests, and species richness for mammals, birds, and amphibians is also high.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Grassland degradation is a widespread phenomenon, with overgrazing being a key driver, together with frequent wheel traffic, or overfertilization, all of which result in changes in sward composition, reduction in yields, and deterioration of soils.
“Grassland degradation is a widespread phenomenon, with overgrazing being a key driver, together with frequent wheel traffic, or overfertilization, all of which result in changes in sward composition, reduction in yields, and deterioration of soils.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Grasslands can act as carbon sinks, transferring carbon below-ground via their expansive root systems.
“Grasslands can act as carbon sinks, transferring carbon below-ground via their expansive root systems.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The global extent of land used for grazing is estimated to be 28–42 Mkm², with the range mainly determined by differences in definitions.
“The global extent of land used for grazing is estimated to be 28-42 Mkm², the range being mainly determined by differences in definitions.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Grassland established after deforestation can be assumed to be under intensive management schemes.
“and can be assumed to be under intensive management schemes.”
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Grasslands are sources of ruminant methane (CH4) emissions and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from excreta or fertilized pastures.
“grasslands are sources of ruminant methane (CH 4 ) emissions as well as nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions from excreta or fertilized pastures.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Modern conventional agriculture is a driver of terrestrial and marine ecosystem degradation and emissions of greenhouse gases.
“It is axiomatic that modern conventional agriculture is a driver of terrestrial and marine ecosystem degradation as well as emissions of greenhouse gases.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Agricultural soils and practices are a major source of CH4 and N2O.
“Agricultural soils and practices are also a major source of CH 4 and N 2 O.”
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Within the agricultural and forestry sector, annual emissions of CH4 and N2O together are similar (in CO2-equivalents) to emissions of CO2 from net deforestation.
“Within the agricultural and forestry sector, annual emissions of CH 4 and N 2 O together are similar (in CO 2 -equivalents) to emissions of CO 2 from net deforestation.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Wetlands play a vital role for a range of ecosystem services, such as flood control, water purification, groundwater replenishment, and nutrient retention, and they are often hotspots of biodiversity.
“Wetlands play a vital role for a range of ecosystem services, such as flood control, water purification, groundwater replenishment, and nutrient retention, and they are often hotspots of biodiversity.”
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Wetlands are under severe stress and subject to degradation.
“Despite their importance, wetlands are under severe stress and subject to degradation.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
The intensification of the hydrological cycle is at least linearly linked to warming at a rate of 6-7% per degree K (the Clausius-Clapeyron response).
“Theoretically, the intensification is assumed to be at least linearly linked to warming at a rate of 6-7% per degree K (the Clausius-Clapeyron response), but empirical evidence and model studies indicate a steeper increase in precipitation intensity, particularly in dry regions (82,83).”
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Erosion from agricultural fields under conventional tillage is often 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than the rate of soil formation.
“Erosion from agricultural fields under conventional tillage is often 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than the rate of soil formation.”
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Unsustainable harvesting of fuelwood for domestic use is a major cause of land degradation, especially in tropical and dryland regions.
“Unsustainable harvesting of fuelwood for domestic use is a major cause of land degradation, especially in tropical and dryland regions.”
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Expansion of purpose-grown energy crops such as canola, soy, miscanthus, or oil palm causes loss of carbon stocks in biomass and soil, loss of soil fertility, and loss of biodiversity if it leads, directly or indirectly, to the conversion of grassland or natural forest to cropland or plantations and/or to further environmentally detrimental intensification of cropland management.
“Expansion of purposegrown energy crops such as canola, soy, miscanthus, or oil palm causes loss of carbon stocks in biomass and soil, loss of soil fertility, and loss of biodiversity if it leads, directly or indirectly, to the conversion of grassland or natural forest to cropland or plantations and/or to further environmentally detrimental intensification of cropland management.”
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Socioeconomic drivers of degradation such as population growth and increasing per capita demand for ecosystem services are projected to continue into the future.
“Socioeconomic drivers of degradation such as population growth and increasing per capita demand for ecosystem services are projected to continue into the future.”
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Reductions in net greenhouse gas emissions or atmospherically reactive precursors of climate forcers are in principle measurable, but these measurements are often technically complex and expensive and require large investment in human power and instrumental infrastructure.
“For instance, reductions in net greenhouse gas emissions or atmospherically reactive precursors of climate forcers are in principle measurable, but these measurements are often technically complex and expensive and require large investment in human power and instrumental infrastructure.”
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The effectiveness of measures may only become evident years or even decades after implementation.
“In both cases, the effectiveness of measures may only become evident years or even decades after implementation, such as the carbon uptake of a restored forest (including the fate of wood products or carbon losses through fire or insects) or the net carbon budget (CO 2 versus CH 4 ) and catchment water balance in restored wetlands, which may take decades to centuries to semiequilibrate.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Carbon sinks decline in all forests as they mature.
“Carbon sinks decline in all forests as they mature.”
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Biophysical surface exchange processes in tropical forests cause local cooling as a climate co-benefit.
“Biophysical surface exchange processes in tropical forests, with often large evapotranspiration rates, cause local cooling as a climate co-benefit.”
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Animals have carbon to nitrogen ratios lower than plant material.
“And animals have carbon to nitrogen ratios that are lower than plant material; hence, the return of nutrients to soil in the form of animal feces has quite different decomposition rates than plant litter.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The return of nutrients to soil in the form of animal feces has quite different decomposition rates than plant litter.
“And animals have carbon to nitrogen ratios that are lower than plant material; hence, the return of nutrients to soil in the form of animal feces has quite different decomposition rates than plant litter.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The presence or absence of large carnivores impacts type and density of prey animals, including the abundance of herbivores and the type and amount of consumed green leaf area.
“Furthermore, the presence or absence of large carnivores impacts type and density of prey animals, including the abundance of herbivores and the type and amount of consumed green leaf area.”
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Earthworms and termites are well known for their role in decomposition of litter and soil organic matter and nutrient turnover.
““Soil engineers” such as earthworms and termites are well known for their role in decomposition of litter and soil organic matter and nutrient turnover.”
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Perennial woody or herbaceous energy crops are able to grow, albeit slowly, on low fertility soils.
“Likewise, perennial woody or herbaceous energy crops (e.g., grasses such as switchgrass or Miscanthus species) can be grown where topsoil has been lost, as they are able to grow, albeit slowly, on low fertility soils.”
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Wolves preying on moose in Northern American boreal forests enhance NPP and net ecosystem carbon uptake by up to 30% via increased growth of deciduous trees and enhanced tree leaf area index.
“Wolves preying on moose in Northern American boreal forests were also estimated to enhance NPP and net ecosystem carbon uptake by up to 30% via increased growth of deciduous trees (which, as the preferred fodder of moose, are suppressed in their presence) and enhanced tree leaf area index.”
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There are very few examples of large-scale scenarios of restoring degraded land.
“Although scenario analysis is used widely across the environmental sciences, there are very few examples of large-scale scenarios of restoring degraded land.”
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Restoration is part of the CBD's post-2020 biodiversity targets expected to be agreed at the next UN CBD COP in China in 2021.
“Restoration is also part of the CBD's post-2020 biodiversity targets that are expected to be agreed upon at the next UN CBD Conference of the Parties (COP) in China (which will take place in 2021)”
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At least 66% of Paris Agreement signatories include nature-based solutions in some form in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
“At least 66% of Paris Agreement signatories were found to include nature-based solutions in some form in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).”
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An important share of the economic benefits of restoration is in the form of nonprovisioning ecosystem services, which benefit society as a whole, but individual land users cannot fully monetize these benefits.
“Firstly, an important share of the economic benefits of restoration is in the form of nonprovisioning ecosystem services, which benefit society as a whole, but individual land users cannot fully monetize these benefits.”
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Benefits of private goods may accrue only after a long period of time, while up-front costs may be prohibitively high, especially for the poor without access to credit.
“Secondly, even when the value of private goods can be realized by land users, the benefits may accrue only after a long period of time, while up-front costs may be prohibitively high, especially for the poor without access to credit.”
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Continuing institutional barriers such as land tenure insecurity and lack of access to rural advisory services pose formidable barriers to the wider adoption of SLM practices and technologies.
“Furthermore, continuing institutional barriers such as land tenure insecurity and lack of access to rural advisory services, i.e., to the information and know-how about SLM and land restoration technologies, pose formidable barriers to the wider adoption of SLM practices and technologies.”
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Many synergies exist between restoration and key international policy areas that relate to nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation (UNFCCC), avoiding and reducing degradation and restoring degraded land (UNCCD), and the CBD and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets.
“Many synergies exist between restoration and key international policy areas that relate to nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation (UNFCCC), avoiding and reducing degradation and restoring degraded land (UNCCD), and the CBD and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
Large uncertainties about the future exist.
“Given large uncertainties about the future (and a general lack of restoration scenarios) static goals and policies that aim to achieve restoration (and sustainable development more generally) are likely to fail.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
There is a general lack of restoration scenarios.
“Given large uncertainties about the future (and a general lack of restoration scenarios) static goals and policies that aim to achieve restoration (and sustainable development more generally) are likely to fail.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The SSPs are currently widely used in the global environmental change research community.
“The SSPs currently widely used in the global environmental change research community vary in their challenges to climate change adaptation and mitigation, but do not specify challenges to nature conservation, nor many of the critical drivers of ecosystem change.”
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§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 4. CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION CO-BENEFITS ARISING FROM AVOIDING FURTHER DEGRADATION AND INCREASING RESTORATION
“Mitigating climate change by utilizing vast land areas globally for the production of bioenergy (Section 3.3)”
§ Annual Review of Environment and Resources Restoring Degraded Lands > 3.4. Bioenergy
“## 3.4. Bioenergy”
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- Authors
- Arneth, A., Olsson, L., Cowie, A., Erb, K.-H., Hurlbert, M., Kurz, W. A., Mirzabaev, A., & Rounsevell, M. D. A.
- Affiliations
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)
- Lund University (SE)
- Government of New South Wales (AU)
- BOKU University (AT)
- University of Regina (CA)
- Canadian Forest Service (CA)
- University of Bonn (DE)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Annual Review of Environment and Resources
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2021-10-18
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 569-599
- ISSN
- 1543-5938 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2050
- OpenAlex
- W3193845121
- Semantic Scholar
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- Cited by
- 106
- References
- 136
- Citations by year
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- en
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- Lund University Publications (Lund University) (submittedVersion)
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- Funders
- Canada Research Chairs
- Vetenskapsrådet (2016-06300)
- Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (773901, 757995)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Water and Land Management
- Keywords
- land degradation, ecological restoration, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas emissions, ecosystem services, sustainable agriculture, forest management, land conservation, poverty, sustainable development, food security, biodiversity loss
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