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

再生退化的热带森林是缓解未来气候变化和恢复基本生态系统服务（包括水循环和生物多样性保护）的关键途径。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，在退化地区恢复生态完整性和人类福祉。目前的政策环境有利于森林恢复，因为各国已作出重大承诺，恢复其森林，以帮助直接履行其在巴黎气候变化协定和波恩挑战下的义务。东南亚热带地区恢复天然林的机会很大；虽然由于伐木、破碎化和工业油棕种植，东南亚成熟的天然林已经大面积退化，但它们具有世界上单位面积上最大的地上碳储存和循环能力（Banin et al. 2014; Sullivan et al. 2016），因此，如果能够实现长期恢复，恢复天然林将提供大量的生态系统服务效益（Lewis et al. 2019）。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进行谨慎的、基于证据的决策，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，重点关注东南亚（SEA）砍伐和退化森林的再生。我们的研究将通过两个工作包交付。在工作包1中，项目合作伙伴将提供文献中无法获得的标准化数据，以提供一份新的现场水平证据综合，提供对恢复后生态过程（碳积累和群落动态）的见解。这项工作将为持续的长期恢复实验网络提供基础。在工作包2中，我们将举办一个跨学科研讨会，该研讨会将使用婆罗洲之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，（ii）为景观级恢复的空间优先级制定研究议程和数据需求。这些活动将通过学术和从业者利益相关者（包括关键政策制定者）之间的互动参与来实现。这将有助于我们更广泛的长期目标，即将生态和社会科学研究与恢复决策的政策和实践联系起来。拟议的for - restor项目将是NERC生态与水文中心（CEH）、英国阿伯丁大学、埃克塞特大学、牛津大学和英国皇家鸟类保护协会与澳大利亚、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。该团队独特地汇集了碳循环，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，森林景观恢复以及森林科学-政策和科学-实践界面的专业知识。

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.