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Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration.
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Article in Nature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 148 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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148citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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148 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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Authors and funding
27 authors.
Bernardo B N StrassburgRio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. b.strassburg@iis-rio.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8598-3020
Alvaro IribarremRio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Hawthorne L BeyerSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia.
Carlos Leandro CordeiroRio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Renato CrouzeillesRio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Catarina C JakovacRio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
André Braga JunqueiraRio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Eduardo LacerdaRio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Agnieszka E LatawiecRio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Andrew BalmfordDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Thomas M BrooksInternational Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland.
Stuart H M ButchartDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1140-4049
Robin L ChazdonInternational Institute for Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7349-5687
Karl-Heinz ErbInstitute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8335-4159
Pedro BrancalionDepartment of Forest Sciences, 'Luiz de Queiroz' College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil.
Graeme BuchananRSPB Centre for Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Edinburgh, UK.
David CooperSecretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4538-205X
Sandra DíazInstituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0012-4612
Paul F DonaldDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Valerie KaposUN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5739-8262
David LeclèreEcosystem Services Management (ESM) Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8658-1509
Lera MilesUN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0377-5904
Michael ObersteinerEcosystem Services Management (ESM) Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6981-2769
Christoph PlutzarInstitute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Carlos Alberto de M ScaramuzzaInternational Institute for Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Fabio R ScaranoPrograma de Pós Graduacão em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-9882
Piero ViscontiEcosystem Services Management (ESM) Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.
Funding
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Abstract
Extensive ecosystem restoration is increasingly seen as being central to conserving biodiversity
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EcosystemInternational CooperationAnimalsBiodiversityConservation of Natural ResourcesCost-Benefit AnalysisEnvironmental Restoration and RemediationGeographic MappingGlobal Warming
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