tool – DiversityForRestoration

Zoom in on the map and mark the site location with a click. If you prefer you can enter the coordinates (in decimal degrees) in the box below. The reference map (areas for restoration) indicates the distribution of suitable areas for tropical dry forest tree species from the present until the 2050s. The different colours in the map indicate the number of tree species the area is suitable for: green indicates few species and red indicates many species. For Colombia, there is a second map (areas for restoration IAVH), indicating the recommended restoration approach in priority areas for restoration as identified by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute. (dark green: preservation; blue-green: recuperation; light green: restoration; yellow: rehabilitation; purple: mine spoils)

Latitude

Longitude

Click in the box and select the characteristics of your restoration site. It is important to not forget to select any of the present conditions.

Click in the boxes below, select the priority restoration objectives, and specify the weight (importance) of the selected objectives. It is not necessary to select objectives in each of the categories.

Regulating ecosystem services

Weight

Traditional uses

Weight

Biodiversity conservation

Weight

Agroforestry and commercial uses

Weight

Enter the number of species you wish to plant

Would you like to specify the resource use strategies of the tree species?

Yes

Enter the % of species you would like with each resource use strategy (acquisitive, intermediate, conservative). Please make sure the total is 100 (e.g. 25, 40, 35).

Example: Acquisitive: 25% + Intermediate: 40% + Conservative: 35% (25+40+35=100%)

Acquisitive species			Intermediate species			Conservative species			TOTAL
		+			+			=

Extra information: Acquisitive species are those capable of quickly taking advantage of the abundant availability of resources such as light, water or nutrients. They are usually fast-growing and relatively short-lived. By contrast, conservative species are specialized in growing under adverse conditions, especially in terms of water and nutrients. They are often slow-growing but long-lived. Intermediate species have a strategy between acquisitive and conservative. In the wet tropics, acquisitive species are pioneer species, and conservative species are late successional (climax) species. In tropical dry forests, there is more and more evidence that the natural processes of early succession are dominated by conservative or intermediate species, while acquisitive ones become more abundant later in the succession when there is already a canopy and water and soil conditions are more favorable.

Would you like to limit the list of species to be considered by the tool?

Yes

Click in the box and select the species from the list

Extra information: If you already know the local flora well, or only have a limited choice available to you, you can specify the species you wish the tool to choose from

Would you like to exclude exotic species?

Yes

Specify which climate change scenario to take into account (RCP2.6: best-case scenario, RCP4.5: intermediate scenario, RCP8.5: worst-case scenario)
RCP 2.6		RCP 4.5		RCP 8.5

Until which year do you want to take into account climate change projections?
2030		2050		2070

1. Where is your restoration site located?

2. What are the characteristics of the restoration site?

3. What are the restoration objectives?

4. How many and what kind of species would you like to plant?

5. Specify additional options and finish

Colombia

Peru-Ecuador

Burkina Faso

Cameroon

Ethiopia

Lebanon

Central America

Ghana

Laos

Amazon

Kenya

Vietnam

India