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| Abella, Scott R.; Public Lands Institute and School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada-Las Vegas; Scott.Abella@unlv.edu; Covington, W. Wallace; Ecological Restoration Institute; Northern Arizona University School of Forestry; wally.covington@nau.edu; Lentile, Leigh B.; Department of Forest Resources, University of Idaho; lentile@uidaho.edu; Morgan, Penelope; Department of Forest Resources, University of Idaho; pmorgan@uidaho.edu. |
| Old growth in the frequent-fire conifer forests of the western United States, such as those containing ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), Jeffrey pine (P. jeffreyi), giant sequoia (Sequioa giganteum) and other species, has undergone major changes since Euro-American settlement. Understanding past changes and anticipating future changes under different potential management scenarios are fundamental to developing ecologically based fuel reduction or ecological restoration treatments. Some of the many changes that have occurred in these forests include shifts from historically frequent surface fire to no fire or to stand-replacing fire regimes, increases in tree density, increased abundance of fire-intolerant trees, decreases in understory productivity,... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed article |
Palavras-chave: Ecological restoration; Evolutionary environment; Mixed conifer; Management; Pinus jeffreyi; Pinus ponderosa; Range of variability; Sequoia giganteum. |
| Ano: 2007 |
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| Garibaldi, Ann; University of Victoria; anng@uvic.ca; Turner, Nancy; University of Victoria; nturner@uvic.ca. |
| Ecologists have long recognized that some species, by virtue of the key roles they play in the overall structure and functioning of an ecosystem, are essential to its integrity; these are known as keystone species. Similarly, in human cultures everywhere, there are plants and animals that form the contextual underpinnings of a culture, as reflected in their fundamental roles in diet, as materials, or in medicine. In addition, these species often feature prominently in the language, ceremonies, and narratives of native peoples and can be considered cultural icons. Without these "cultural keystone species," the societies they support would be completely different. An obvious example is western red-cedar (Thuja plicata) for Northwest Coast cultures of North... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Porphyra abbottiae; Sagittaria spp.; Thuja plicata; British Columbia; First Nations; Cultural keystone species; Ecological restoration; Traditional ecological knowledge. |
| Ano: 2004 |
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| Petursdottir, Thorunn; Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC); thorunn@live.com; Arnalds, Olafur; Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Agricultural University of Iceland; oa@lbhi.is; Baker, Susan; Cardiff School of Social Sciences; BakerSCM@cardiff.ac.uk; Montanarella, Luca; Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES), European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) ; luca.montanarella@jrc.ec.europa.eu. |
| Large-scale restoration projects are normally part of a complex social–ecological system where restoration goals are shaped by governmental policies, managed by the surrounding governance system, and implemented by the related actors. The process of efficiently restoring degraded ecosystems is, therefore, not only based on restoring ecological structure and functions but also relies on the functionality of the related policies, the relevant stakeholder groups, and the surrounding socioeconomic and political settings. In this research, we investigated the SES of rangeland restoration in Iceland to estimate whether social factors, such as stakeholders’ attitudes and behavior, can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of agri-environmental... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Agri-environmental policies; Ecological restoration; Evaluation; Natural resource management; Social– Ecological systems. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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| Spencer, Andrew G; Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins; agordonspencer@gmail.com; Schultz, Courtney A; Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins; courtney.schultz@colostate.edu; Hoffman, Chad M; Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins; c.hoffman@colostate.edu. |
| Prescribed fire is a critical tool for promoting restoration and increasing resilience in fire-adapted ecosystems, but there are barriers to its use, including a shortage of personnel with adequate ecological knowledge and operational expertise to implement prescribed fire across multijurisdictional landscapes. In the United States, recognized needs for both professional development and increased use of fire are not being met, often because of institutional limitations. The Fire Learning Network has been characterized as a multiscalar, collaborative network that works to enhance the adaptive capacity of fire management institutions, and this network developed the Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (TREXs) to address persistent challenges in increasing the... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive capacity; Ecological restoration; Fire Learning Network; Fire management; Prescribed fire; Resilience; Workforce capacity. |
| Ano: 2015 |
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| Zedler, Joy B; University of Wisconsin-Madison; jbzedler@wisc.edu; Doherty, James M.; University of Wisconsin-Madison; jdohert1@gmail.com; Miller, Nicholas A.; The Nature Conservancy ; nmiller@tnc.org. |
| Policy to guide ecological restoration needs to aim toward minimizing the causes of ecosystem degradation; where causes cannot be eliminated or minimized, policy needs to shift toward accommodating irreversible landscape alterations brought about by climate change, nitrogen deposition, altered hydrology, degraded soil, and declining biodiversity. The degree to which lost diversity and ecosystem services can be recovered depends on the extent and nature of landscape change. For wetlands that occur at the base of watersheds that have been developed for agriculture or urban centers, the inflows of excess water, sediment, and nutrients can be permanent and can severely challenge efforts to restore historical services, including biodiversity support. In such... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive restoration; Conservation of biodiversity; Ecological restoration; Ecosystem services; Landscape alteration; Watershed plan; Wetland. |
| Ano: 2012 |
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| Schoukens, Hendrik; Department of Public, European, and International Law, Ghent University, Belgium; hendrik.schoukens@ugent.be; Cliquet, An; Department of Public, European, and International Law, Ghent University, Belgium; An.Cliquet@UGent.be. |
| Biodiversity offsets have emerged as one of the most prominent policy approaches to align economic development with nature protection across many jurisdictions, including the European Union. Given the increased level of scrutiny that needs to be applied when authorizing economic developments near protected Natura 2000 sites, the incorporation of onsite biodiversity offsets in project design has grown increasingly popular in some member states, such as the Netherlands and Belgium. Under this approach, the negative effects of developments are outbalanced by restoration programs that are functionally linked to the infrastructure projects. However, although taking into consideration that the positive effects of onsite restoration measures leads to more leeway... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity offsetting; Briels case; Compensation; Ecological restoration; Habitats Directive; Mitigation. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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| Baker, Susan; Cardiff School of Social Sciences/Sustainable Places Institute, Cardiff University; BakerSCM@cardiff.ac.uk. |
| Using a simple stages model of the policy process, we explore the politics of ecological restoration using an array of examples drawn across sector, different size and scale, and from different countries. A policy analysis perspective reveals how, at both the program and project levels, ecological restoration operates within a complex and dynamic interplay between technical decision making, ideologies, and interest politics. Viewed through the stages model, restoration policy involves negotiating nature across stages in the policy making process, including agenda setting, policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation. The stages model is a useful heuristic devise; however, this linear model assumes that policy makers approach the issue rationally. In... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight |
Palavras-chave: Ecological restoration; Interests and values; Policy cycle; Stages model. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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| Adams, William M.; Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; wa12@cam.ac.uk; Hodge, Ian D.; Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; idh3@cam.ac.uk; Macgregor, Nicholas A.; Natural England, Nobel House, London, UK; Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK; nicholas.macgregor@naturalengland.org.uk; Sandbrook, Lindsey C.; Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; lindsey.sandbrook@gmail.com. |
| It is increasingly recognized that ecological restoration demands conservation action beyond the borders of existing protected areas. This requires the coordination of land uses and management over a larger area, usually with a range of partners, which presents novel institutional challenges for conservation planners. Interviews were undertaken with managers of a purposive sample of large-scale conservation areas in the UK. Interviews were open-ended and analyzed using standard qualitative methods. Results show a wide variety of organizations are involved in large-scale conservation projects, and that partnerships take time to create and demand resilience in the face of different organizational practices, staff turnover, and short-term funding. Successful... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity conservation; Conservation governance; Ecological restoration; Landscape-scale conservation; Neoliberalism; Partnership. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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| Aradottir, Asa L.; Agricultural University of Iceland; asa@lbhi.is; Hagen, Dagmar; Norwegian Institute for Nature Research; dagmar.hagen@nina.no; Mitchell, Ruth J.; The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, UK; ruth.mitchell@hutton.ac.uk; Raulund-Rasmussen, Karsten; Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; krr@ign.ku.dk; Tolvanen, Anne; Natural Resources Institute Finland, Department of Ecology, University of Oulu Finland; anne.tolvanen@luke.fi; Wilson, Scott D.; Department of Biology, University of Regina; scott.wilson@uregina.ca. |
| We developed a conceptual framework for evaluating the process of ecological restoration and applied it to 10 examples of restoration projects in the northern hemisphere. We identified three major phases, planning, implementation, and monitoring, in the restoration process. We found that evaluation occurred both within and between the three phases, that it included both formal and informal components, and that it often had an impact on the performance of the projects. Most evaluations were short-term and only some parts of them were properly documented. Poor or short-term evaluation of the restoration process creates a risk that inefficient methods will continue to be used, which reduces the efficiency and effectiveness of restoration. To improve the... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Ecological restoration; Evaluation; Northern Hemisphere; Restoration implementation; Restoration monitoring; Restoration planning. |
| Ano: 2016 |
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| Ecological restoration has been mainstreamed in international biodiversity policies in the last five years. I analyze statements about restoration in three international policies: the Convention for Biodiversity Strategic Plan 2011-2020 and Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the Convention for Biodiversity Decision XI/16 on ecosystem restoration, and the European Union’s Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. I argue that restoration functions at three different levels in these policies: as an objective, as a target, and as a tool. Because restoration appears at all three levels, the policies encourage counting all restoration activity as meeting the objectives of the policy regardless of the activity’s actual effect on ecosystem services or... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight |
Palavras-chave: Convention on Biological Diversity; Ecological restoration; European Union; Policy. |
| Ano: 2015 |
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| Morsing, Jonas; Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen; nkx236@alumni.ku.dk; Frandsen, Sally Ida; Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen;; Vejre, Henrik; Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen; hv@life.ku.dk; Raulund-Rasmussen, Karsten; Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen; krr@life.ku.dk. |
| Ecological restoration is becoming a main component in nature management; hence, its definitions and interpretations of the underlying principles are widely discussed. In Denmark, restoration has been implemented for decades, and the LIFE Nature program has contributed to several large-scale projects. Our aim was to indicate tendencies in Danish nature policy by analyzing a representative sample of nature management projects. Using qualitative document analyses of official reports, we investigated how well 13 LIFE Nature cofinanced projects undertaken in Denmark fit with the principles of ecological restoration, as formulated in the nine attributes of the Society for Ecological Restoration’s Primer on Ecological Restoration, and based on the five... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Benchmark; Ecological restoration; Human impact; LIFE Nature; Natura 2000; Nature policy; Semicultural landscapes; SER attributes. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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| Watson, Alan; Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute; awatson@fs.fed.us; Alessa, Lilian; ; afla@uaa.alaska.edu; Glaspell, Brian; ; bglaspell@fs.fed.us. |
| There are many unique issues associated with natural resource management in the far north as a result of legislative direction, historic settlement and occupation patterns, northern cultural traditions, ecotourism, economic depression, pressures for energy development, and globalization and modernization effects. Wilderness designation in Canada, the USA, and Finland is aimed at preserving and restoring many human and ecological values, as are the long-established, strictly enforced, nature reserves in Russia. In Alaska and Finland, and in some provinces of Canada, there is a variety of values associated with protecting relatively intact relationships between indigenous people and relatively pristine, vast ecosystems. These values are often described as... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Circumpolar north; Ecological restoration; Relationship with nature; Traditional ecological knowledge; Traditional lifestyles; Traditional means of livelihood; Wilderness. |
| Ano: 2003 |
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| Newton, Adrian C; Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK; anewton@bournemouth.ac.uk; Premoli, Andrea C; Laboratorio Ecotono, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Bariloche, Argentina; andrea.premoli@gmail.com. |
| Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) involves the ecological restoration of degraded forest landscapes, with the aim of benefiting both biodiversity and human well-being. We first identify four fundamental principles of FLR, based on previous definitions. We then critically evaluate the application of these principles in practice, based on the experience gained during an international, collaborative research project conducted in six dry forest landscapes of Latin America. Research highlighted the potential for FLR; tree species of high socioeconomic value were identified in all study areas, and strong dependence of local communities on forest resources was widely encountered, particularly for fuelwood. We demonstrated that FLR can be achieved through both... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Conservation; Dryland; Ecological restoration; Forest landscape; Latin America; Reforestation; Rehabilitation. |
| Ano: 2012 |
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