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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) and the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), in conjunction with Wiley Publishing, are excited to release the first
issue of Restoration Ecology – Arid Lands</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (RE-AL). This new thematic series will focus on the restoration of drylands, including arid and semi-arid areas, one of the
most challenging ecosystems in the restoration arena. The first issue of RE-AL </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box;">addresses the urgent need to better disseminate and apply research
breakthroughs, innovative technologies, and best practices to restoration ecology as a discipline and to the issues and challenges in large-scale restoration of arid land ecosystems<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1C1D1E">.</span></span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </o:p></p>
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<b>Soil seed bank in different vegetation types in the Loess Plateau region and its role in vegetation restoration</b>, Ning Wang et al. 21 March 2020<o:p> </o:p></p>
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<b>Soil amendment interactions with invasive grass and drought to uniquely influence aboveground versus belowground biomass in aridland restoration</b>, Magda Garbowski et al. 14 November 2019<o:p> </o:p></p>
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<b>Determining factors of cottonwood planting survival in the desert river restoration project</b>, Brian G. Laub et al. 19 November 2019
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<b>Soil reconstruction after mining fails to restore soil function in an Australian arid woodland</b>, Corrine Duncan et al. 19 March 2020 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rec.13166<o:p> </o:p></p>
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<b>Evaluating success of various restorative interventions through drone- and field-collected data</b>, using six putative framework species in Argentinian Patagonia, Daniel R. P<span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">é</span>rez
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<b>Arid grassland bee communities: associated environmental variables and responses to restoration</b>, Lauren A. Smith DiCarlo et al. 31 October 2019<o:p> </o:p></p>
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