James A. Harris

TL;DR: It is suggested that these novel systems will require significant revision of conservation and restoration norms and practices away from the traditional place-based focus on existing or historical assemblages.

TL;DR: A range of species richness and evenness/dominance indices are assessed, and the use of species abundance models are used using samples of bacteria from zinc-contaminated and control soils to assess suitability for use with highly diverse bacterial communities.

TL;DR: It is argued that restoration ecology has to be an integral component of land management in today's world, and to be broadly applicable, has to have a clearly articulated conceptual basis.

TL;DR: In this article, the implications of climate change for the broader practice of ecological restoration must be considered, and the usefulness of historical ecosystem conditions as targets and references must be set against the likelihood that restoring these historic ecosystems is unlikely to be easy, or even possible, in the changed biophysical conditions of the future.

TL;DR: A new genus and species of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing planctomycetes, discovered in a wastewater treatment plant treating landfill leachate in Pitsea, UK, are described, making this genus the most widespread of all anammox bacteria described so far.