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Ecosystem Restoration: Definitions & Concepts

Ecological restoration includes activities that help recover ecosystems, like erosion control, reforestation, removing invasive species, and reintroducing native species. It draws on ecological concepts like disturbance, succession, fragmentation, ecosystem function, community assembly, and population genetics. Disturbance disrupts ecosystems, but is natural, while succession is how communities change over time after disturbance. Fragmentation separates habitats, reducing diversity. Ecosystem function refers to basic processes like nutrient cycles. Community assembly and population genetics influence restoring processes and diversity.

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Ecosystem Restoration: Definitions & Concepts

Ecological restoration includes activities that help recover ecosystems, like erosion control, reforestation, removing invasive species, and reintroducing native species. It draws on ecological concepts like disturbance, succession, fragmentation, ecosystem function, community assembly, and population genetics. Disturbance disrupts ecosystems, but is natural, while succession is how communities change over time after disturbance. Fragmentation separates habitats, reducing diversity. Ecosystem function refers to basic processes like nutrient cycles. Community assembly and population genetics influence restoring processes and diversity.

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  • Ecosystem Restoration Overview
  • Definition
  • Project Scope in Ecological Restoration
  • Theoretical Foundations
  • The End

ECOSYSTEM

RESTORATION
Made by-
Anshika Kushwaha
Definition
• Restoration ecology is the academic study of the process, whereas ecological
restoration is the actual project or process by restoration practitioners. The 
Society for Ecological Restoration defines "ecological restoration" as an

"intentional activity that initiates or accelerates the


recovery of an ecosystem with respect to its health,
integrity and sustainability.”
Ecological restoration includes a wide scope of projects
including :
  erosion control
  reforestation
 removal of non-native species and weeds
  revegetation of disturbed areas
 daylighting streams
 the reintroduction of native species (preferably native species that have 
local adaptation)
 habitat and range improvement for targeted species
Theoretical foundations
• Restoration ecology draws on a
wide range of ecological concepts. Disturbance Succession

Fragmentation Ecosystem
function

Community Population
assembly genetics
1. Disturbance 3. Fragmentation
• Change in environmental conditions • Habitat fragmentation describes spatial
that disrupt the functioning of an discontinuities in a biological system,
ecosystem. where ecosystems are broken up into
smaller parts through land-use changes
• It can occur at a variety of spatial and (e.g. agriculture) and natural
temporal scales, and is a natural disturbance .
component of many communities.
4. Ecosystem function
2. Succession
• Ecosystem function describes the most
• Ecological Succession is the process basic and essential foundational
by which a community changes over processes of any natural systems,
time, especially following a including nutrient cycles and energy
disturbance. fluxes .
Disturbance of a fire can clearly be seen by Succession after disturbance a boreal forest one
comparing the unburnt (left) and burnt (right) sides year (left) and two years (right) after a wildfire.
of the mountain range in South Africa.
Composting within agricultural systems capitalizes
Habitat fragmentation upon the natural services of nutrient recycling in
ecosystems.
4. Community assembly 5. Population genetics
• Is a framework that can unify • Genetic diversity has shown to be
virtually all of (community) as important as species diversity for
ecology under a single conceptual restoring ecosystem processes.
umbrella.
The flightless dung beetle occupies an ecological In population genetics, the founder effect is the loss
niche: exploiting animal droppings as a food of genetic variation that occurs when a
source. new population is established by a very small number
of individuals from a larger population.
THE END

ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION Made by- Anshika Kushwaha
Definition • Restoration ecology is the academic study of the process, whereas ecological restoration is the actual project
Ecological restoration includes a wide scope of projects including :  erosion control  reforestation  removal of non-nati
Theoretical foundations • Restoration ecology draws on a wide range of ecological concepts. Disturbance Succession Fragmenta
1. Disturbance • Change in environmental conditions that disrupt the functioning of an ecosystem. • It can occur at a varie
Disturbance of a fire can clearly be seen by comparing the unburnt (left) and burnt (right) sides of the mountain range in
Habitat fragmentation Composting within agricultural systems capitalizes upon the natural services of nutrient recycling in
4. Community assembly • Is a framework that can unify virtually all of (community) ecology under a single conceptual umbre
The flightless dung beetle occupies an ecological niche: exploiting animal droppings as a food source. In population geneti
THE END

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