Inconvenient realities and the path toward science-based forest restoration policies: A reply to Veldman et al

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269 USA chazdon@uconn.edu.
• ² International Institute for Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• ³ Tropical Forests and People Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Locked Bag 4, Maroochydore DC, Queensland, 4558 Australia.
• ⁴ World Resources Institute, Global Restoration Initiative, 10 G Street, NE Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20002 USA.
• ⁵ Laestadius Consulting LLC, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 90183 Umeå, Sweden.