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 …

Demand for restoration of resilient, self‐sustaining, and biodiverse natural ecosystems as a
conservation measure is increasing globally; however, restoration efforts frequently fail to …

Heightening human impacts on the Earth result in widespread losses of production and
conservation values and make large‐scale ecosystem restoration increasingly urgent …

People have conquered the Earth and altered ecosystems (Vitousek, Mooney, Lubchenco, &
Melillo, 1997) to the extent that some have suggested that we have entered the …

Is formal science necessarily an effective framework and methodology for designing and
implementing ecological restoration programs? My experience as an ecologist in Hawaii …

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 …

Background Recent reports on the state of the global environment provide evidence that
humankind is inflicting great damage to the very ecosystems that support human livelihoods …

The problem of ecosystem damage is international; a recent estimate suggests that 43% of
the earth's terrestrial surface has a reduced capacity to supply benefits to humanity because …

Ecosystem recovery from anthropogenic disturbances, either without human intervention or
assisted by ecological restoration, is increasingly occurring worldwide. As ecosystems …

Passive restoration, which relies exclusively on natural processes and technical
reclamation, which intervenes strongly into the restoration process, represent the extremes …