Journal
RESTORATION ECOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 503-507Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12225
Keywords
ecological restoration; ecosystem reclamation; food web theory; industrial disturbance; trophic cascade
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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Ecological restoration projects have traditionally focused on vegetation as both a means (seeding, planting, and substrate amendments) and ends (success based upon primary productivity and vegetation diversity). This vegetation-centric approach to ecological restoration stems from an historic emphasis on esthetics and cost but provides a limited measure of total ecosystem functioning and overlooks alternative ways to achieve current and future restoration targets. We advocate a shift to planning beyond the plant community and toward the physical and biological components necessary to initiate autogenic recovery, then guiding this process through the timely introduction of top predators and environmental modifications such as soil amendments and physical structures for animal nesting and refugia.
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