Credit hours
In-class work per week |
Practice per week |
Credits |
Duration |
Total |
5 |
15 |
8 |
4 weeks |
120 hours |
Instructor
Joannès Guillemot
Pedro Henrique Santin Brancalion
Ricardo Augusto Gorne Viani
Objective
To capacitate students for the development of technical and research projects on ecological restoration
Content
- History of ecosystem degradation and restoration
- Ecological basis for restoration
- Socioeconomic and legal bases for restoration
- Restoration of forest ecosystems
- Restoration of non-forest ecosystems
- Research in restoration ecology
- Ecological restoration projects
- Practices on scientific writing
Bibliography
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Brancalion, P. H. S. and R. L. Chazdon. 2017. Beyond hectares: four principles to guide reforestation in the context of tropical forest and landscape restoration. Restoration Ecology.
Brancalion, P. H. S., D. Schweizer, U. Gaudare, J. R. Mangueira, F. Lamonato, F. T. Farah, A. G. Nave, and R. R. Rodrigues. 2016. Balancing economic costs and ecological outcomes of passive and active restoration in agricultural landscapes: the case of Brazil. Biotropica 48:856-867.
Brancalion, P.H.S; Gandolfi, S.; Rodrigues, R.R. 2015. Restauração Florestal. São Paulo: Oficina de Textos.
Brancalion, P. H. S., R. A. G. Viani, B. B. N. Strassburg, and R. R. Rodrigues. 2012. Finding the money for tropical forest restoration. Unasylva 63:25-34.
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César, R. G., V. S. Moreno, G. D. Coletta, R. L. Chazdon, S. F. B. Ferraz, D. R. A. Almeida, and P. H. S. Brancalion. 2017. Early ecological outcomes of natural regeneration and tree plantations for restoring agricultural landscapes. Ecological Applications.
Chazdon, R. L. 2008. Beyond deforestation: Restoring forests and ecosystem services on degraded lands. Science 320:1458-1460.
Chazdon, R. L., P. H. S. Brancalion, D. Lamb, L. Laestadius, M. Calmon, and C. Kumar. 2017. A policy-driven knowledge agenda for global forest and landscape restoration. Conservation Letters 10:125-132.
Chazdon, R. L. and M. R. Guariguata. 2016. Natural regeneration as a tool for large-scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges. Biotropica 48:716-730.
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Guariguata, M. R. and P. H. S. Brancalion. 2014. Current Challenges and Perspectives for Governing Forest Restoration. Forests 5:3022-3030.
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Lamb, D., P. D. Erskine, and J. D. Parrotta. 2005. Restoration of degraded tropical forest landscapes. Science 310:1628-1632.
Latawiec, A. E., B. B. N. Strassburg, P. H. S. Brancalion, R. R. Rodrigues, and T. Gardner. 2015. Creating space for large-scale restoration in tropical agricultural landscapes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13:211-218.
Meli, P., K. D. Holl, J. M. R. Benayas, H. P. Jones, P. C. Jones, D. Montoya, and D. M. Mateos. 2017. A global review of past land use, climate, and active vs. passive restoration effects on forest recovery. Plos One 12.
Menz, M. H. M., K. W. Dixon, and R. J. Hobbs. 2013. Hurdles and Opportunities for Landscape-Scale Restoration. Science 339:526-527.
Metzger, J. P. and P. H. S. Brancalion. 2013. Challenges and Opportunities in Applying a Landscape Ecology Perspective in Ecological Restoration: a Powerful Approach to Shape Neolandscapes. Natureza & Conservacao 11:103-107.
Moreno-Mateos, D., E. B. Barbier, P. C. Jones, H. P. Jones, J. Aronson, J. A. Lopez-Lopez, M. L. McCrackin, P. Meli, D. Montoya, and J. M. R. Benayas. 2017. Anthropogenic ecosystem disturbance and the recovery debt. Nature Communications 8.
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Palmer, M. A. and J. B. Ruhl. 2015. Aligning restoration science and the law to sustain ecological infrastructure for the future. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13:512-519.
Richards, R. C., J. Rerolle, J. Aronson, P. H. Pereira, H. Goncalyes, and P. H. S. Brancalion. 2015. Governing a pioneer program on payment for watershed services: Stakeholder involvement, legal frameworks and early lessons from the Atlantic forest of Brazil. Ecosystem Services 16:23-32.
Rodrigues, R. R., S. Gandolfi, A. G. Nave, J. Aronson, T. E. Barreto, C. Y. Vidal, and P. H. S. Brancalion. 2011. Large-scale ecological restoration of high-diversity tropical forests in SE Brazil. Forest Ecology and Management 261:1605-1613.
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Rodrigues, R.R.; Brancalion, P.H.S.; Isernhagen, I. (Org.). Pacto para a restauração ecológica da Mata Atlântica: referencial dos conceitos e ações de restauração florestal. São Paulo: Instituto BioAtlântica. 2009.
Suding, K., E. Higgs, M. Palmer, J. B. Callicott, C. B. Anderson, M. Baker, J. J. Gutrich, K. L. Hondula, M. C. LaFevor, B. M. H. Larson, A. Randall, J. B. Ruhl, and K. Z. S. Schwartz. 2015. Committing to ecological restoration. Science 348:638-640.
Viani, R. A. G., N. B. Vidas, M. M. Pardi, D. C. V. Castro, E. Gusson, and P. H. S. Brancalion. 2015. Animal-dispersed pioneer trees enhance the early regeneration in Atlantic Forest restoration plantations. Natureza & Conservacao 13:41-46.