Toward an era of restoration in ecology: successes, failures, and opportunities ahead

KN Suding - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
As an inevitable consequence of increased environmental degradation and anticipated
future environmental change, societal demand for ecosystem restoration is rapidly …

Novel ecosystems: implications for conservation and restoration

RJ Hobbs, E Higgs, JA Harris - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2009 - cell.com
Many ecosystems are rapidly being transformed into new, non-historical configurations
owing to a variety of local and global changes. We discuss how new systems can arise in …

Restoration and repair of Earth's damaged ecosystems

HP Jones, PC Jones, EB Barbier… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Given that few ecosystems on the Earth have been unaffected by humans, restoring them
holds great promise for stemming the biodiversity crisis and ensuring ecosystem services …

Faustian bargains? Restoration realities in the context of biodiversity offset policies

M Maron, RJ Hobbs, A Moilanen, JW Matthews… - Biological …, 2012 - Elsevier
The science and practice of ecological restoration are increasingly being called upon to
compensate for the loss of biodiversity values caused by development projects. Biodiversity …

Hurdles and opportunities for landscape-scale restoration

MHM Menz, KW Dixon, RJ Hobbs - Science, 2013 - science.org
A priority outcome from the 2012 United Nations Rio+ 20 Conference on Sustainable
Development was the target to restore, by 2020, 150 million ha of disturbed and degraded …

Terrestrial ecosystem restoration increases biodiversity and reduces its variability, but not to reference levels: A global meta‐analysis

J Atkinson, LA Brudvig, M Mallen‐Cooper… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological restoration projects often have variable and unpredictable outcomes, and these
can limit the overall impact on biodiversity. Previous syntheses have investigated restoration …

Intervention ecology: applying ecological science in the twenty-first century

RJ Hobbs, LM Hallett, PR Ehrlich, HA Mooney - BioScience, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Rapid, extensive, and ongoing environmental change increasingly demands that humans
intervene in ecosystems to maintain or restore ecosystem services and biodiversity. At the …

[HTML][HTML] Implementing forest landscape restoration under the Bonn Challenge: a systematic approach

JA Stanturf, M Kleine, S Mansourian, J Parrotta… - Annals of Forest …, 2019 - Springer
Key message There is no one-size-fits-all way to successfully implement forest landscape
restoration (FLR). Complex socio-ecological systems present challenges and opportunities …

From reintroduction to assisted colonization: moving along the conservation translocation spectrum

PJ Seddon - Restoration Ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Translocation, the intentional movement of living organisms from one area to another is
increasingly being used as a conservation tool to overcome barriers to dispersal. A …

A framework to optimize biodiversity restoration efforts based on habitat amount and landscape connectivity

LR Tambosi, AC Martensen, MC Ribeiro… - Restoration …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The effectiveness of ecological restoration actions toward biodiversity conservation depends
on both local and landscape constraints. Extensive information on local constraints is …