%0 Journal Article 
%A Porras Gómez, Javier
%T Main factors influencing ecosystem restoration outcomes: a global qualitative meta-analysis
%D 2020
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/46029
%X Ecosystem restoration (ER) has been proven useful to help reversing ecosystem degradation caused by human activities and its consequent loss of biodiversity. However, its current efficiency is limited, and it is not meeting the initial expectations. In order to know what is defining this limited performance, the main goal of this study is to know the main elements hampering and improving the outcomes of ER. For this purpose, we performed a global qualitative meta-analysis of 131 reviews on ER in all types of ecosystems. From the reviews, we extracted 579 qualitative variables subsequently categorized into 25 factors to which a weight value was assigned. These factors cover different aspects like policy, economy, society, practice and science. We concluded that the choice of restoration techniques, the performance assessment and evaluation, and the temporal scale of the restoration project were the factors with highest influence on ER results. We also highlighted the need of deeper scientific research on more complex ecological attributes as a crucial element to tackle several factors. With these results, we provide guidelines to improve the performance of current ER from a local (practice) to a global (international strategies) scales.

%K Barriers
%K Limitations
%K Boosters
%K Review
%K Success
%K Barreras
%K Limitaciones
%K Potenciadores
%K Revisión
%K Éxito
%K Medio Ambiente
%K Environmental science
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala