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Restoration Success: How Is It Being Measured?
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Most of the reviewed studies are using multiple measures to evaluate restoration success, but it would encourage future projects to include at least two variables within each of the three ecosystem attributes that clearly related to ecosystem functioning and at leastTwo reference sites to capture the variation that exist in ecosystems.Abstract:
The criteria of restoration success should be clearly established to evaluate restoration projects. Recently, the Society of Ecological Restoration International (SER) has produced a Primer that includes ecosystem attributes that should be considered when evaluating restoration success. To determine how restoration success has been evaluated in restoration projects, we reviewed articles published in Restoration Ecology (Vols. 1[1]–11[4]). Specifically, we addressed the following questions: (1) what measures of ecosystem attributes are assessed and (2) how are these measures used to determine restoration success. No study has measured all the SER Primer attributes, but most studies did include at least one measure in each of three general categories of the ecosystem attributes: diversity, vegetation structure, and ecological processes. Most of the reviewed studies are using multiple measures to evaluate restoration success, but we would encourage future projects to include: (1) at least two variables within each of the three ecosystem attributes that clearly related to ecosystem functioning and (2) at least two reference sites to capture the variation that exist in ecosystems.read more
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Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience
Thomas Elmqvist,Carl Folke,Carl Folke,Magnus Nyström,Garry D. Peterson,Jan Bengtsson,Jan Bengtsson,Brian Walker,Jon Norberg +8 more
TL;DR: The diversity of responses to environmental change among species contributing to the same ecosystem function, which is called response diversity, is critical to resilience and is particularly important for ecosystem renewal and reorganization following change.
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Toward an Era of Restoration in Ecology: Successes, Failures, and Opportunities Ahead
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate successes and failures in restoration, how science is informing these efforts, and ways to better address decision-making and policy needs, and find that restoration outcomes vary widely based on the limited available information.
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Assessing the benefits and risks of translocations in changing environments : a genetic perspective
Andrew Weeks,Carla M. Sgrò,Andrew G. Young,Richard Frankham,Nicki Mitchell,Kim A. Miller,Margaret Byrne,David J. Coates,Mark D. B. Eldridge,Paul Sunnucks,Martin F. Breed,Elizabeth A. James,Ary A. Hoffmann +12 more
TL;DR: A classification of translocations based on specific genetic goals for both threatened species and ecological restoration is provided, separating targets based on ‘genetic rescue’ of current population fitness from those focused on maintaining adaptive potential.
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Evaluating Ecological Restoration Success: A Review of the Literature
TL;DR: This article conducted a literature review to determine trends in evaluations of restoration projects and identify key knowledge gaps that need to be addressed, and quantified the extent that key attributes of success, including ecological (vegetation structure, species diversity and abundance, and ecosystem functioning) and socioeconomic, were addressed by these papers along with trends in publication and restoration characteristics.
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On the restoration of high diversity forests: 30 years of experience in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
TL;DR: A review of more than 30 years of ecological restoration in the Brazilian part of the Atlantic Forest is presented in this paper, which summarizes the main findings and challenges for restoration in this highly threatened forest biome.
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Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience
Thomas Elmqvist,Carl Folke,Carl Folke,Magnus Nyström,Garry D. Peterson,Jan Bengtsson,Jan Bengtsson,Brian Walker,Jon Norberg +8 more
TL;DR: The diversity of responses to environmental change among species contributing to the same ecosystem function, which is called response diversity, is critical to resilience and is particularly important for ecosystem renewal and reorganization following change.
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Ecological Resilience, Biodiversity, and Scale
TL;DR: It is proposed that ecological resilience is generated by diverse, but overlapping, function within a scale and by apparently redundant species that operate at different scales, thereby reinforcing function across scales.
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Towards a Conceptual Framework for Restoration Ecology
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TL;DR: This work stresses the importance of developing restoration methodologies that are applicable at the landscape scale, beyond nonquantitative generalities about size and connectivity, so that urgent large-scale restoration can be planned and implemented effectively.
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