Ecological restoration has a paradigm of re‐establishing 'indigenous reference'communities.
One resulting concern is that focussing on target communities may not necessarily create …

The rationale of most restoration strategies is that with reconstruction of natural habitats
comes biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning and services will follow suit. Uncertainty and …

Simplification of natural habitats has become a major conservation challenge and there is a
growing consensus that incorporating and enhancing habitat complexity is likely to be …

Recently, the focus of conservation efforts gradually changed from a species-centred
approach to a broader ambition of conserving functional ecosystems. This new approach …

Novelty pervades the biosphere. In some cases, potentially irreversible abiotic and/or biotic
changes have led to the crossing of thresholds and thus the formation of “novel ecosystems.” …

Increasingly, the success of management interventions aimed at biodiversity conservation
are viewed as being dependent on the 'resilience'of the system. Although the term …

Community ecology is frequently invoked as complementary to and useful for guiding
ecological restoration. While the conceptual literature is devoted to this unification, first‐hand …

Under globally accelerating rates of ecosystem degradation, maintaining ecosystem function
is a priority to avoid loss of valuable ecosystem services. Two factors are important: changes …

Current approaches to conservation may be inadequate to maintain ecosystem integrity
because they are mostly based on rarity status of organisms rather than functional …

Natural ecosystems are heterogeneous; their physical, chemical, and biological
characteristics display variability in both space and time. In trying to understand vegetation …