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Soil Restoration and Monitoring Guidelines

1.5 Aim and methodology

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This guideline aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the lessons learned from SUPERB and general guidelines for forest restoration, with a particular focus on restoring and monitoring soil health after forest and soil restoration measures are taken.

By addressing three fundamental questions: what to restore (focus on soil properties), how to restore (focus on measures that target forest and soil restoration), and how to monitor restoration efforts (focus on soil capacity and condition) we aim to integrate the dual aspects of soil within forest ecosystems. By disentangling the concepts of soil capacity and soil condition/health we emphasize the importance of context when taking a certain measure and monitoring its impact.
Multiple forest restoration strategies are studied within the framework of SUPERB, of which some barely impact soil health and others are explicitly targeted on soil health. A full explanatory list of forest restoration measures for every demonstration area can be found here.