This special issue contains 13 papers presented at the Groningen Conference on
Restoration Ecology, held from 25–30 August 1998 in the Netherlands. This conference was …

Ecosystem stability and the response of ecosystems to disturbance are of crucial importance
for conservation management, especially when the object is to maintain and/or to restore …

We present a review of more than 30 years of ecological restoration in the Brazilian part of
the Atlantic Forest. Based on what has been done in this biome, we try to summarize the …

The extent of human‐induced change and damage to Earth's ecosystems renders
ecosystem repair an essential part of our future survival strategy, and this demands that …

The two volumes of this handbook provide a comprehensive account of the emerging and
vibrant science of the ecological restoration of both habitats and species. Ecological …

Cultural landscapes are usually understood within physical geography as those transformed
by human action. As human influence on the earth increases, advances in palaeocological …

Focuses on restoration ecology, a branch of ecology which is concerned with the
development and testing of ecological ideas and concepts to assist in environmental …

Restoration of bottomland hardwood forests is the subject of considerable interest in the
southern United States, but restoration success is elusive. Techniques for establishing …

Mining reclamation results obtained in the Teruel coalfield (Mediterranean-dry Spain) during
the last 30 years have been quite limited. In order to improve restoration operations we …

Development and status of landscape ecology-subject of this book During the last decades,
landscape ecology has developed tremendously. It concerns both the theoretical basis and …