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Drainage-Driven Loss of Carbon Sequestration of a Temperate Peatland in Northeast China
Drainage is known to reduce carbon sequestration in peatlands, but its effect on the stability of carbon pool and changes in recalcitrant organic...
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Introduction to Restoration Ecology
Restoration ecology is an interdisciplinary field of research that builds on the concepts and foundations of ecology and makes use of other...
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Habitat suitability of a peatland landscape for tiger translocation on Kampar Peninsula, Sumatra, Indonesia
The risk of large carnivore mortality from anthropogenic sources is increased in areas where frequent human-carnivore encounters are high....
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Natural and anthropogenic determinants of peatland dragonfly assemblages: Implications for management and conservation
Peatlands are unique ecosystems of global importance for biodiversity, though are severely threatened by human activities. Dragonflies are valuable...
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Elevated methane flux in a tropical peatland post-fire is linked to depth-dependent changes in peat microbiome assembly
Fires in tropical peatlands extend to depth, transforming them from carbon sinks into methane sources and severely limit forest recovery. Peat...
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Hydrologic Restoration Decreases Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Shrub Bog Peatlands in Southeastern US
Peatlands play a disproportionate role in the global carbon cycle. However, many peatlands have been ditched to lower the water table and converted...
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Measures in the Practice of Ecosystem Restoration
The measures applied for the restoration of ecosystem range from the well-known measures applied in nature conservation management, agriculture, and...
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Just Add Water? Wetland and Riparian Restoration
For successful restoration of wetland and riparian systems, we need to recognise several key points: Wetland systems exist because of, and are...
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Use of a novel camera trap** approach to measure small mammal responses to peatland restoration
Small mammals, such as small rodents (Rodentia: Muroidea) and shrews (Insectivora: Soricidae), present particular challenges in camera trap surveys....
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A Brief Introduction to Restoration Ecology and Ecosystem Restoration
A brief and comprehensive introduction to restoration ecology is given. After a short sketch of the history of this subdiscipline of ecology,...
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Norms and Values in Ecosystem Restoration
While restoration ecology, as a scientific sub-discipline of ecology, generates and analyses data and facts qualitatively and quantitatively and...
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Reasons and Motivations for Ecosystem Restoration
The reasons and motivations for ecosystem restoration are differentiated into four categories, i.e., (1) environmental science, ecological, and...
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Assessing the conservation and restoration potential of biotopes in a central European region
Changing environmental conditions and land use are threatening biodiversity on a large scale, making successful conservation and restoration...
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Selling Peatland for the Future: History, Land Management, and the Transformation of Common Land in Rantau Baru
Rantau Baru, an old fishing village on the bank of the Kampar River in Indonesia, is surrounded by peat hinterlands. The village territory has been...
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Testing whether reducing brown trout biomass in peatland lakes increases macro-invertebrate biomass and invertivorous waterbird occurrence
Waterbirds and fish sometimes compete for macro-invertebrate prey. In Scotland, the invertivorous waterbird, the common scoter Melanitta nigra ,...
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Vulnerability and Transformation of Indonesian Peatlands
This open access book deals with restoring degraded peatlands to help mitigate global warming, to which SDG 15 and SDG 13 are directly related. The...
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A Critical Review of the IUCN UK Peatland Programme’s “Burning and Peatlands” Position Statement
Despite substantial contrary evidence, there has been a growing tendency to present prescribed vegetation burning as a management practice that is...
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A Century of Practice and Experiences of the Restoration of Land-Use Types and Ecosystems
Referring to the manifold studies and the long-term experiences of the restoration of near-natural ecosystems and traditional land-use types,...
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Which Ecosystem Should Be Restored? Reference Systems for Restoration
For the identification of the restoration potential, the selection of suitable restoration or management measures, the coordination and, if...
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Using Degree of Natural Regeneration Potential to Guide Selection of Plant Community Restoration Approaches at a Restoration Site
This chapter draws on global case study literature and eight case studies (from seven continents) to argue the benefits of adopting a...