Improving Restoration Programs Through Greater Connection With Ecological Theory and Better Monitoring
Improving Restoration Programs Through Greater Connection With Ecological Theory and Better Monitoring
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通过与生态理论的更紧密联系和更好的监测来改进恢复计划
DOI：
10.3389/fevo.2020.00050
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
D. Lindenmayer
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作者：
D. Lindenmayer
全世界数百万公顷的土地急需恢复。然而，过去的许多景观和生态系统恢复努力可能效果不佳。造成这些问题的部分原因包括缺乏监测，或监测实践质量低下，或者恢复工作往往与生态概念和/或理论无关。这些缺陷使得难以：(1) 确定超出特定地点见解的更广泛应用的一般原则，(2) 量化成功，以及 (3) 确定改进恢复计划的一般方法。在本文中，我概述了一些个人观点，即如何利用澳大利亚东南部温带林地二十年恢复工作的见解来解决这些缺陷。我认为，如果未来的景观和生态系统恢复计划想要比过去更成功，并带来更好的生态投资回报，就需要纠正与缺乏监测和与生态理论联系有限相关的问题。这应该有助于加强学习并提高恢复工作持续改进的潜力。
Millions of hectares of land worldwide is in urgent need of restoration. However, many past landscape and ecosystem restoration efforts are likely to have been less than effective. Some of the reasons for these problems include a lack of monitoring, or being subjected to poor quality monitoring practices, or that the restoration efforts are too often not linked with ecological concepts and/or theory. These deficiencies make it difficult to: (1) identify general principles for broader application beyond site-specific insights, (2) quantify success, and (3) identify general ways to improve restoration programs. In this paper, I outline some personal perspectives on how these deficiencies might be addressed using insights from two decades of work on restoration in the temperate woodlands of south-eastern Australia. I argue problems associated with a lack of monitoring and limited connection to ecological theory need to be rectified if future landscape and ecosystem restoration programs are to be more successful than those in the past and are to deliver better ecological returns on investment. This should help enhance learning and boost the potential for continuous improvement in restoration efforts.