Restoration Ecology, Volume 29, Issue 2, February 2021 is now available on the Wiley Online Library.
In the covid-19 world, researchers are like everyone else - pressured, fogged, and trying to cope with the situation. With this issue of the Arid Lands feature, we appreciate more than ever the efforts of our authors, reviewers, editors, staff, and financial supporters.

We have excellent papers on strategic level approaches - improving restoration success in arid lands, collaboration challenges, how to spot opportunities for restoration - and technical advice on how to recolonize sand dunes, how to select the right materials with the best traits in restoration in arid lands, and soil salinity impacts on mangrove restoration.

For those focused on ecological restoration in arid lands, this ongoing special feature is intended to give practitioners and researchers the vehicle to raise the profile of this important type of habitat - one that is common on our planet but had been neglected as too many people glibly equated 'arid' with 'lifeless'. As our authors show, there is much life and much opportunity for restoration in arid lands.
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e13204 | First Published: 24 February 2021

PRACTICAL ARTICLE
Improving restoration success through a precision restoration framework
Stella M. Copeland, Owen W. Baughman, Chad S. Boyd, Kirk W. Davies, Jay Kerby, Olga A. Kildisheva, Tony Svejcar

e13348 | First Published: 12 January 2021

RESEARCH ARTICLES
The spatial pattern of the belowground bud bank and its responses to soil water status in the interdune lowlands of active sand dunes of Inner Mongolia, China
Jing Wu, Xin Chen, Lan Xu, Jianqiang Qian, Zhimin Liu

e13223 | First Published: 17 June 2020

Identifying restoration opportunities beneath native mesquite canopies
Elise S. Gornish, Hasbagan Ganjurjav, Maowei Liang, Juniper L. Simonis, Mitchel P. McClaran

e13334 | First Published: 05 December 2020

Hidden variation: cultivars and wild plants differ in trait variation with surprising root trait outcomes
Alicia J. Foxx, Andrea T. Kramer

e13336 | First Published: 14 December 2020

Restoration perceptions and collaboration challenges under severe water scarcity: the Aculeo Lake process
Anahí Ocampo‐Melgar, Pilar Barria, Cristian Chadwick, Pablo Villoch

e13337 | First Published: 14 December 2020

Impact of soil salinity on mangrove restoration in a semiarid region: a case study from the Saloum Delta, Senegal
John L. Devaney, Diatta Marone, Jennifer C. McElwain

e13186 | First Published: 19 April 2020