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Learnings from the past to inform future ecosystem restoration projects: an Australian perspective 从过去汲取经验，为未来的生态系统恢复项目提供信息：澳大利亚的视角

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Restoration Ecology Pub Date : 2024-07-19 DOI: 10.1111/rec.14241

Rocio Araya‐López, Melissa Wartman, Micheli Duarte de Paula Costa, Peter I. Macreadie

{"title":"Learnings from the past to inform future ecosystem restoration projects: an Australian perspective","authors":"Rocio Araya‐López, Melissa Wartman, Micheli Duarte de Paula Costa, Peter I. Macreadie","doi":"10.1111/rec.14241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14241","url":null,"abstract":"Coastal and marine ecosystems provide valuable ecosystem services and functions. Unfortunately, these habitats have experienced increasing anthropogenic and climate‐related pressures, leading to significant degradation and loss not only in Australia but also globally. Hence, the urgency for coastal and marine ecosystem restoration has never been more pronounced. We present a synthesis of 151 projects on coastal and marine restoration in Australia spanning mangrove, seagrass, tidal marsh, kelp, shellfish reef, and coral ecosystems. Our findings reveal increased restoration efforts over the past 30 years, with an increased focus on coral and shellfish reef habitats. Across Australia, most efforts were in southeastern Australia, with a noticeable gap in the Northern Territory. Restoration strategies focused on enhancing propagule availability (74%) and substrate availability (42%), with additional efforts toward implementing top–down (7%) and bottom–up (4%) controls to boost natural recruitment. Projects were carried out with the participation mostly of research universities (45%), followed by state government entities (42%), philanthropy (34%), and private companies (16%). Funding came primarily from governmental sources, such as state government entities (50%), the commonwealth (44%), and philanthropy (19%). Restoration outcomes are centered on monitoring growth and survival resulting from both single and multiple restoration actions. Our findings highlight key factors influencing natural recruitment across habitat types, where sedimentation and species reproductive biology play a critical role. While acknowledging that our results represent only a small fraction of Australia's coastal and marine restoration efforts, our intent is to contribute insights that can support large‐scale restoration actions not only in Australia but also on a global scale.","PeriodicalId":54487,"journal":{"name":"Restoration Ecology","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141738052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Coral restoration: a mapping review through a scientometric analysis 珊瑚恢复：通过科学计量分析进行绘图审查

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Restoration Ecology Pub Date : 2024-07-19 DOI: 10.1111/rec.14229

Thirukanthan C. Segaran, Fawzan B. Soffa, Fathurrahman Lananan, Gianluca Sarà, Zhihua Feng, Mohamad N. Azra, Che D. M. Safuan

{"title":"Coral restoration: a mapping review through a scientometric analysis","authors":"Thirukanthan C. Segaran, Fawzan B. Soffa, Fathurrahman Lananan, Gianluca Sarà, Zhihua Feng, Mohamad N. Azra, Che D. M. Safuan","doi":"10.1111/rec.14229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14229","url":null,"abstract":"Reef restoration has gained attention as it has strategic actions and powerful means in sustaining and maintaining coastal ecosystem services. This scientometric study systematically analyzes the current trends and research hotspot in coral restoration across the last five decades (1971–2022). The metadata (12,667 articles with 652,860 cited references) were obtained from the Clarivate Web of Science platform through the Core Collection database, associated with the CiteSpace and R‐software for further analysis. The results indicated that the trend of coral restoration is increasing in paper/year, with the United States, Australia, and China as major contributors to the related research. Furthermore, James Cook University, Australia had the largest number of articles, and the Consortium of Research Libraries of the United Kingdom was the most influential institution on coral restoration. The highly cited keywords are “Great Barrier Reef,” “climate change,” and “coral reef,” while the most influential keywords are “coral,” “model,” and “Atlantic.” A total of 23 clusters in the field with “coral reef,” “phase shift,” “bacterial communities,” “coral restoration,” “symbiotic dinoflagellate,” “stony coral tissue loss disease,” “bleaching event,” “ocean acidification,” “oyster reef,” and “quantitative reconstruction” are among the top cluster size labeled. Early‐stage researcher may use both keywords and cluster analysis to find topics attractive to their future research projects. In addition, this study contributes toward evaluating recent scientific productivity about coral restoration as well as informing researchers and policymakers regarding funding, future strategic planning, and potential collaboration opportunities.","PeriodicalId":54487,"journal":{"name":"Restoration Ecology","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141738054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From eradication to conservation: identifying areas for restoration and management of a Pliocene relic in a changing climate 从根除到保护：在不断变化的气候中确定上新世遗迹的恢复和管理区域

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Restoration Ecology Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1111/rec.14232

Katie J. Pennartz, Evan P. Tanner, J. Matthew Carroll, R. Dwayne Elmore, Craig A. Davis, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf

{"title":"From eradication to conservation: identifying areas for restoration and management of a Pliocene relic in a changing climate","authors":"Katie J. Pennartz, Evan P. Tanner, J. Matthew Carroll, R. Dwayne Elmore, Craig A. Davis, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf","doi":"10.1111/rec.14232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14232","url":null,"abstract":"By 1985, approximately 400,000 ha of the keystone species Shinnery oak's (Quercus havardii) historic distribution had been eliminated for agricultural purposes across the southwestern United States. These trends indicate a need for targeted conservation and restoration efforts, especially considering the increased attention received for its role in providing habitat for endangered fauna. Setting spatially explicit conservation targets can be challenging for species with limited distributions, as the change in climate conditions over time may disconnect the relationship between environmental suitability and static, topo‐edaphic factors. Our objective was to identify areas for Shinnery oak restoration and conservation and explore the role climate plays in determining these areas while considering topo‐edaphic relationships. We constructed ecological niche models to estimate Shinnery oak's distribution under current climate conditions and temporally transferred our model using an ensemble‐mean of general circulation models to identify areas predicted to retain environmental suitability for Shinnery oak through 2100. The current distribution model was best informed by one climate and two topo‐edaphic variables. We created a second distribution model excluding topo‐edaphic variables to estimate future plant–climate relationships. Incorporating insights from models informed by both static (e.g. soil) and dynamic (e.g. climate) variables, we identified areas for conservation characterized by persistent climate suitability and high soil type suitability. Lastly, we incorporated data on land use and ownership to explore socio‐ecological influences on management decisions. By identifying areas of agreement between our modeled distributions and considering social context, we prioritized conservation areas where environmental suitability persists under changing conditions to facilitate restoration success.","PeriodicalId":54487,"journal":{"name":"Restoration Ecology","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141738055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Efficacy of invasive plant control depends on timing of herbicide application and invader soil seedbank density 入侵植物控制的效果取决于施用除草剂的时机和入侵者土壤种子库的密度

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Restoration Ecology Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1111/rec.14237

Clarissa S. Rodriguez, Christopher J. McDonald, Travis M. Bean, Loralee Larios

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Upland vegetation removal as a potential tool for facilitating landward salt marsh migration 将移除高地植被作为促进盐沼向陆地迁移的潜在工具

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Restoration Ecology Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1111/rec.14242

Kenneth B. Raposa, Robin L. J. Weber, Daisy Durant, Jon C. Mitchell, Scott Rasmussen, Richard A. McKinney, Cathleen Wigand

{"title":"Upland vegetation removal as a potential tool for facilitating landward salt marsh migration","authors":"Kenneth B. Raposa, Robin L. J. Weber, Daisy Durant, Jon C. Mitchell, Scott Rasmussen, Richard A. McKinney, Cathleen Wigand","doi":"10.1111/rec.14242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14242","url":null,"abstract":"To increase the resilience of salt marshes subject to sea‐level rise impacts, managers can focus on interventions within current marsh footprints or in adjacent uplands to facilitate landward marsh migration. The latter approach may be more appropriate when degradation is severe and in situ intervention options are limited. Strategies for facilitating marsh migration include removing artificial barriers, soil grading to reduce steep topography, and manipulating adjacent upland vegetation that can hinder migration, but experiments testing the effectiveness of these activities are limited. We therefore conducted a field experiment to determine if physically removing three upland vegetation types (forest, shrub, and Phragmites australis) adjacent to a Rhode Island salt marsh facilitates short‐term marsh migration. Upland vegetation removal led to increased ambient light in all habitats, significantly enhanced marsh plant cover, extent, and elevation in shrub habitat, and declines in total bird abundance in forest and shrub habitats. Enhanced migration did not occur in forest or Phragmites habitats, and in shrubs, marsh plants only colonized where Baccharis halimifolia, common in upper marsh borders, had been removed. Five years after removal, all upland habitats and associated vegetation were indistinguishable from initial conditions. Our study suggests that upland plant removal might provide a limited window for facilitating salt marsh migration and that more intensive methods may be needed for sustained, longer‐term benefits. It also demonstrates that there may be ecological trade‐offs to consider when altering upland habitats to enhance landward marsh migration.","PeriodicalId":54487,"journal":{"name":"Restoration Ecology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141738056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The role of biological soil crusts in vascular plant recruitment in the Loess Plateau region, China 中国黄土高原地区土壤生物结壳对维管束植物生长的作用

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Restoration Ecology Pub Date : 2024-07-12 DOI: 10.1111/rec.14235

Guifang Hu, Ning Wang, Jiamin Chen, Li Qin, Jun'e Liu, Zhengchao Zhou

{"title":"The role of biological soil crusts in vascular plant recruitment in the Loess Plateau region, China","authors":"Guifang Hu, Ning Wang, Jiamin Chen, Li Qin, Jun'e Liu, Zhengchao Zhou","doi":"10.1111/rec.14235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14235","url":null,"abstract":"Globally, biological soil crusts (BSCs) are crucial ecosystem components that perform essential functions important to ecosystem stability. However, the potential mechanisms of BSC's effect on vascular plant recruitment and establishment are largely unknown. Furthermore, few studies have considered BSC‐vascular plant analyses in conjunction with BSC microenvironments, seed traits, and plant life stages simultaneously. Thus, we chose six typical plants with different seed traits on the Loess Plateau and conducted a growth chamber experiment to evaluate the effects of BSC types, disturbance, seeding positions, and moisture on seed germination, survival, and seedling growth. We also explored the effects of BSC presence and disturbance on seedling emergence through field investigation. The results indicated that the main effects of the four factors, BSC type, disturbance, seeding location, and moisture, and their two‐ and three‐dimensional interactions had significant effects on the performance of most of the studied species. Disturbance and wetting treatments with shorter watering intervals promoted the performance of most plants, and moisture could modify the effect of BSCs on plants. The effect of BSCs on plant performance was related to seed traits and plant life stage and the presence of the BSC promotes the growth of the plants when it reaches the survival stage. In field observations, we found that the number of seedling species was lower on BSCs compared to bare lands and that the number of species on broken crusts was greater than on intact crusts; while seedling density on bare land was significantly higher than it in BSC patches.","PeriodicalId":54487,"journal":{"name":"Restoration Ecology","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141613150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Charting a course for peatland restoration in Ireland: a case study to support restoration frameworks in other regions 规划爱尔兰泥炭地恢复路线：支持其他地区恢复框架的案例研究

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Restoration Ecology Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI: 10.1111/rec.14216

Catherine A. Farrell, John Connolly, Terry R. Morley

{"title":"Charting a course for peatland restoration in Ireland: a case study to support restoration frameworks in other regions","authors":"Catherine A. Farrell, John Connolly, Terry R. Morley","doi":"10.1111/rec.14216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14216","url":null,"abstract":"Peatlands are complex landscape ecosystems. Since the beginning of the last century, they have been viewed as wastelands, with little or no economic value of note in their natural state. This led to their hidden values, particularly their contributions to human well‐being, and global and local support systems, being completely overlooked in policy and decision‐making, both at national and global levels. In this paper, we highlight some of the complexities relating to Irish peatlands: from their traditional use, to changes in land use relating to national and European policy changes in the last century. We then outline essential supporting components of a framework for their restoration and future sustainable use. Policy relating to agriculture, forestry, and energy has driven most of the land use change in Ireland, particularly since the mid‐1900s, and this has led to dramatic changes in peatland extent and condition, with negative impacts on the flows of ecosystem services and benefits for people. Restoration of peatlands has significant potential to reverse those negative flows and deliver benefits (local and global) for carbon, water, biodiversity, and people. Local communities can, and are keen to, support the delivery of peatland restoration, but they need to be supported by national agencies and policy frameworks that address social, economic, and environmental targets. The act of restoration creates opportunities to re‐connect with peatlands in a positive way, re‐enforcing the intrinsic and reciprocal values of peatlands, and ultimately supporting their sustainable use.","PeriodicalId":54487,"journal":{"name":"Restoration Ecology","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141573026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessing seed pellet formulations to improve native plant restoration under water‐limited conditions 评估种子颗粒配方，改善限水条件下的本地植物恢复工作

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Restoration Ecology Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI: 10.1111/rec.14217

Thomas P. Munro, Todd E. Erickson, Dale G. Nimmo, Jodi N. Price

{"title":"Assessing seed pellet formulations to improve native plant restoration under water‐limited conditions","authors":"Thomas P. Munro, Todd E. Erickson, Dale G. Nimmo, Jodi N. Price","doi":"10.1111/rec.14217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14217","url":null,"abstract":"Water scarcity, a challenge expected to worsen with climate change, significantly hinders native plant community restoration. Enhancing seed‐based restoration requires methods to increase the water availability for seeds and seedlings. Surfactants and superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) can improve soil water‐holding capacity and infiltration, but their use in seed enhancements remains underexplored. We investigated whether pellets containing surfactants or SAPs could improve seedling emergence of two native species (Rytidosperma caespitosum and Chrysocephalum apiculatum) common in temperate grasslands in south‐eastern Australia under different watering treatments. We used a randomized block design with five watering treatments to simulate predicted changes in precipitation for south‐eastern Australia: ambient, two reducing overall water volume, and two reducing watering frequency while increasing watering volume to maintain ambient treatment water volume. We explored four enhanced pellets (two containing surfactants and two containing SAPs) and non‐pelleted seeds. Our results showed that watering events with larger volumes but reduced frequency increased seedling emergence. Under these conditions, block co‐polymer surfactants further increased seedling emergence of C. apiculatum, while synthetic SAP pellets promoted emergence of R. caespitosum. Block co‐polymer surfactants decreased R. caespitosum emergence, and both SAPs reduced C. apiculatum emergence under reduced watering frequency. A 50% reduction in overall water volume significantly reduced seedling emergence for both species, regardless of seed enhancement. These findings suggest that surfactants and SAP pellets can improve the success of seed‐based restoration under ambient conditions and when rainfall events are larger in volume but reduced in frequency, but not when the overall volume of rainfall is reduced.","PeriodicalId":54487,"journal":{"name":"Restoration Ecology","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141573195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Topsoil volume optimization in the restoration of post‐mined areas 采矿后地区恢复过程中表土量的优化

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Restoration Ecology Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI: 10.1111/rec.14222

Maurílio A. Figueiredo, Maria C. T. B. Messias, Mariangela G. P. Leite, Alessandra R. Kozovits

{"title":"Topsoil volume optimization in the restoration of post‐mined areas","authors":"Maurílio A. Figueiredo, Maria C. T. B. Messias, Mariangela G. P. Leite, Alessandra R. Kozovits","doi":"10.1111/rec.14222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14222","url":null,"abstract":"Transferring topsoil to severely degraded areas, such as mined areas, is an effective restoration technique. However, topsoil from pristine areas is a limited resource, making it important to seek techniques that optimize its use. Thus, this study assessed the effects of adding a small topsoil volume (10 L/m2 or 1 cm layer), a seed mix of 14 species, and litter (30 L/m2) alone and in different combinations in the restoration of a rupestrian grassland area degraded by bauxite mining. The substrate in the degraded area was turned prior to applying treatments. Vegetation cover, density of individuals, and species richness were measured 30 months after the experiment was set up. The isolated use of each material and the simultaneous addition of topsoil to the seed mix were not effective. The simultaneous use of topsoil, litter, and seed mix provided the best result, presenting the highest vegetation coverage (60%), density (67 ind/m2), and species richness (26 in 12 m2). Although, to a lesser extent, the combination of seed mix and litter also presented satisfactory results. The combination of the three materials promoted the revegetation of an area that had been without vegetation for around 50 years, presenting a density of individuals and species richness comparable to those obtained with the use of thick topsoil layers (15–30 cm). Furthermore, the topsoil volume used was optimized.","PeriodicalId":54487,"journal":{"name":"Restoration Ecology","volume":"2016 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141573196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ecosystem restoration coupled with poverty alleviation in eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu‐Natal Province, South Africa 南非夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省 eThekwini 市的生态系统恢复与减贫相结合

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Restoration Ecology Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI: 10.1111/rec.14224

Beka J. Nxele, Petrus J. Pieterse, Diane L. Larson

{"title":"Ecosystem restoration coupled with poverty alleviation in eThekwini Municipality, KwaZulu‐Natal Province, South Africa","authors":"Beka J. Nxele, Petrus J. Pieterse, Diane L. Larson","doi":"10.1111/rec.14224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14224","url":null,"abstract":"Ecosystem restoration is a necessity for addressing socio‐ecological challenges by improving ecosystem resilience and alleviating poverty through local community involvement. Here, we review a community‐based, large‐scale ecosystem restoration program, Working for Ecosystems, implemented by eThekwini Municipality in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa, between 2007 and 2022. For this study, we interrogated monthly and annual reports generated by the program between 2011 and 2021 to describe how the program worked to suppress invasive alien plants (IAPs) and provided employment opportunities to marginalized groups (women, youth, military veterans, and people living with disabilities). Annual budget was positively correlated with the area cleared of IAPs and effort (person‐days in the field). The program successfully incorporated marginalized groups, but military veterans and people living with disabilities remained in smaller numbers and were not well quantified. Participants were encouraged to constitute companies—Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises—that were then subcontracted to the program or could progress to other endeavors, allowing other community members to enter the program. A steady increase in the implementation budget emphasized the need for a long‐term plan to ensure accountability and sustainability of restoration and socio‐ecological systems.","PeriodicalId":54487,"journal":{"name":"Restoration Ecology","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141577813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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