Freshwater, Invertebrates, Restoration A new study raises doubts about the ability of stream restoration projects in urbanized watersheds to mitigate against human impacts and improve ecological conditions.
Agriculture, Planning, Restoration A new case study presents a planning method for prioritizing ecosystem restoration efforts across an agricultural region. While this type of systematic approach to prioritization has been widely used in land protection, it is much less common in restoration...
Grassland, Invertebrates, Restoration Scientists have presented an interesting method for measuring the success of ecological restoration. The basic concept of the habitat affinity approach is that it assesses the degree to which the species composition at a restoration site reflects that of the target habitat community...
Grassland, Restoration "A common problem in conservation is that the wealth of experience and knowledge that practitioners gain over time is not well aggregated and shared." This is the sentiment that motivated Helen Rowe from Purdue University to interview 38 experienced tallgrass prairie managers about what they have learned from conducting ecosystem restoration on their preserves...
Fire, Plants, Restoration For the land manager, fire represents a potentially valuable tool in controlling invasive species and restoring native ecosystems. But one of the challenges of utilizing fire in restoration is predicting how plants will ultimately respond to the treatment and planning accordingly...
Freshwater, Invertebrates, Restoration A new study looks at 26 restored river sites across Europe and finds little evidence that these projects have impacted the benthic invertebrate community - i.e. the worms, crustaceans, and other organisms that dwell on the bottom of freshwater systems...
Restoration, Wetland A new study by researchers at Ohio State University compares created versus natural wetlands in terms of soil characteristics. Using a model, the researchers predict that it would take the created wetlands 300 years to accumulate the soil organic carbon of natural wetlands...
