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Acknowledgments

We are very grateful to all authors of this Special Issue. We particularly appreciate the contributions of articles from invited speakers of the Restoring Forests Congress: Lorenzo Ciccarese, Dugald Close, Yousry El-Kassaby, Steven Grossnickle, Magnus Löf, and Ramón Vallejo. We gratefully acknowledge the efforts of the Science Committee of the Restoring Forests Congress (Christian Ammer, Lluis Coll, R. Kasten Dumroese, Steven Grossnickle, Yong Liu, Anders Mattsson, John Stanturf, and Pedro Villar-Salvador) and the team of guest associate editors for this Special Issue (Arnulfo Alderete, Christian Ammer, Dugald Close, Lluis Coll, R. Kasten Dumroese, Steven Grossnickle, Simon Landhäusser, Yong Liu, Magnus Löf, Jeremiah Pinto, Jaime Puértolas, John Stanturf, Ramón Vallejo and Pedro Villar-Salvador).

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  1. Departamento de Silvopascicultura, Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal y del Medio Natural, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Juan A. Oliet

  2. Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2061, USA

    Douglass F. Jacobs

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Oliet, J.A., Jacobs, D.F. Restoring forests: advances in techniques and theory. New Forests 43, 535–541 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11056-012-9354-4

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