Restoration and repair of Earth's damaged ecosystems
Autores
Jones, Holly P.; Moreno Mateos, David; Jones, Peter C.; Barbier, Edward B.; Blackburn, Ryan C.; [et al.]Identificadores
Enlace permanente (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/49889DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2577
ISSN: 0962-8452
Fecha de publicación
2018Patrocinadores
National Science Foundation
German Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research—UFZ, Leipzig (Research Program ‘Terrestrial Environments')
sDiv, the Synthesis Centre of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig (German Research Foundation)
Northern Illinois University
Cita bibliográfica
Jones, H.P. et al., 2018. Restoration and repair of Earth's damaged ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences, 285(1873), pp.20172577-8
Palabras clave
Restoration
Recovery
Disturbance
Resilience
Proyectos
SESYNC-NSF DBI-1052875 (National Science Foundation)
DFG FZT 118 (German Research Foundation)
Tipo de documento
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Versión
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Versión del editor
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2577Derechos
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
© 2018 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society
Derechos de acceso
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Resumen
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 are provided to humanity. Nonetheless, few studies have documented the recovery of ecosystems globally or the rates at which ecosystems recover. Even fewer have addressed the added benefit of actively restoring ecosystems versus allowing them to recover without human intervention following the cessation of a disturbance. Our meta-analysis of 400 studies worldwide that document recovery from large-scale disturbances, such as oil spills, agriculture and logging, suggests that though ecosystems are progressing towards recovery following disturbances, they rarely recover completely. This result reinforces conservation of intact ecosystems as a key strategy for protecting biodiversity. Recovery rates slowed down with time since the disturbance ended, suggesting that the final stages of recovery are the most challenging to achieve. Active restoration did not result in faster or more complete recovery than simply ending the disturbances ecosystems face. Our results on the added benefit of restoration must be interpreted cautiously, because few studies directly compared different restoration actions in the same location after the same disturbance. The lack of consistent value added of active restoration following disturbance suggests that passive recovery should be considered as a first option; if recovery is slow, then active restoration actions should be better tailored to overcome specific obstacles to recovery and achieve restoration goals. We call for a more strategic investment of limited restoration resources into innovative collaborative efforts between scientists, local communities and practitioners to develop restoration techniques that are ecologically, economically and socially viable.
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