NI: FOR-RESTOR - A network for evidence-based tropical FORest RESTORation

恢复退化的热带森林是减缓未来气候变化和恢复基本生态系统服务的关键方法，包括水循环和生物多样性保护。波恩挑战设定了两个关键目标：到2020年恢复1.5亿公顷退化土地，到2030年恢复3.5亿公顷退化土地，目的是在森林和景观恢复方法的基础上，恢复退化地区的生态完整性和人类福祉。目前，政策环境有利于恢复，因为各国已对恢复森林作出重大承诺，以帮助直接履行《巴黎气候变化协定》和《波恩挑战》规定的义务。东南亚热带地区的天然林有很大的恢复机会；虽然采伐、碎片化和工业化油棕榈种植使天然林严重退化，但海上成熟的天然林具有储存和循环世界上单位面积上最大数量的地上碳的能力(Banin等人)。2014年；Sullivan等人。2016年)，因此，如果能够实现长期恢复，恢复天然林可提供可观的生态系统服务效益(Lewis等人。2019年)。然而，为热带森林制定成功的森林恢复战略需要在不同的空间尺度上作出谨慎的、以证据为基础的决策，并与多个利益攸关方合作。为了确保恢复工作的长期成功，我们的项目启动了一个新的多学科网络，专注于东南亚(海)伐木和退化森林的再生。我们的研究将通过两个工作包进行。在工作包1中，项目合作伙伴将提供文献中没有的标准化数据，以提供新出版的现场一级证据的综合，从而深入了解恢复后的生态过程(碳积累和社区动态)。这项工作将为建立可持续的长期修复实验网络提供基础。在工作包2中，我们将主办一个跨学科研讨会，它将使用婆罗洲中心项目区作为跨界案例研究，以(I)确定森林景观恢复的障碍、限制和机会，以及(Ii)制定景观恢复的空间优先顺序的研究和数据需求议程。这些活动将通过学术界和实践者利益攸关方(包括主要政策制定者)在马来西亚的一个研讨会上的互动参与来进行，这将有助于我们更广泛的、拟议的FOR-RESTOR项目将是NERC生态与水文学中心(CEH)、英国阿伯丁大学、埃克塞特大学、牛津大学和RSPB与来自澳大利亚、意大利、瑞典、泰国、马来西亚、印度尼西亚和新加坡的国际合作伙伴之间的新合作。该团队独特地将碳循环、功能生态学、生物多样性-生态系统功能关系、保护遗传学、遗传资源和种子系统、生态恢复、森林景观恢复和森林科学-政策和科学-实践接口的专业知识结合在一起。

Regenerating degraded tropical forests is a key approach for mitigating future climate change and restoring essential ecosystem services, including water cycling and biodiversity conservation. The Bonn Challenge sets two key targets: to restore 150 million hectares of degraded lands by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030, with the aim of re-instating ecological integrity alongside human well-being into degraded areas based on the forest and landscape restoration approach. Currently, the policy environment is conducive to restoration as countries have made significant commitments to restoring their forests in order to help meet their obligations under the Paris climate change agreement and the Bonn Challenge directly. There is significant opportunity for restoring natural forests in tropical Southeast Asia; whilst they have been extensively degraded by logging, fragmentation and industrial Oil Palm cultivation, mature natural forests in SEA have a capacity to store and cycle the largest quantities of above-ground carbon per unit area in the world (Banin et al. 2014; Sullivan et al. 2016), and therefore reinstating natural forests offers substantial ecosystem service benefits if long-term restoration can be achieved (Lewis et al. 2019). However, devising successful forest restoration strategies for tropical forests involves careful, evidence-based decision-making, at various spatial scales and working with multiple stake-holders. To ensure the long-term success of restoration efforts, our project initiates a new multidisciplinary network focussing on regeneration of Southeast Asian (SEA) logged and degraded forests. Our research will be delivered through two work packages. In work package 1, project partners will provide standardised data unavailable in the literature to deliver a new published synthesis of site-level evidence providing insights into post-restoration ecological processes (carbon accumulation and community dynamics). This work will provide a basis for a sustained long-term restoration experiment network. In work package 2, we host an interdisciplinary workshop which will use the Heart of Borneo project area as a transboundary case study to (i) identify the barriers, constraints and opportunities for forest landscape restoration and (ii) develop an agenda of research and data needs for spatial prioritization for landscape-level restoration These activities will be delivered through interactive engagement between academic and practitioner stakeholders, including key policy-makers, at a workshop in Malaysia, which will contribute to our broader, long-term goal of linking ecological and social science research to policy and practice in restoration decision-making.The proposed FOR-RESTOR project will be a new collaboration between the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Universities of Aberdeen, Exeter, Oxford and RSPB in the UK and international partners from Australia, Italy, Sweden, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia & Singapore. The team uniquely brings together expertise in carbon cycling, functional ecology, biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships, conservation genetics, genetic resources and seed systems, ecological restoration, forest landscape restoration and forest science-policy and science-practice interfaces.