RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Conceptual and methodological issues in estimating the success of ecological restoration
A1 Marchand, Lilian
A1 Castagneyrol, Bastien
A1 Jiménez, Juan J.
A1 Rey Benayas, Jose M.
A1 Benot, Marie-Lise
A1 Martínez-Ruiz, Carolina
A1 Alday, Josu G.
A1 Jaunatre, Renaud
A1 Dutoit, Thierry
A1 Buisson, Elise
A1 Mench, Michel
A1 Alard, Didier
A1 Corcket, Emmanuel
A1 Comin, Francisco
AB Ecological restoration (ER) of terrestrial ecosystems has become widespread in past decades. However, assessing its success is complex mainly due to the diversity of objectives pursued, actions undertaken but also statistical methods for treating data. We demonstrate here that, due to the heterogeneity of collected data, the success of restoration actions can be overestimated in meta-analyses. We advocate analyzing distinctly two types of actions in ER, those aiming at increasing an ecosystem attribute (e.g. species richness of a native plant species, ER+), and those aiming at decreasing it (e.g. invasive species cover, ER-). We also suggest that only one index for assessing the success of a restoration action is not enough. We propose here to complete RR (Remaining Recovery) by a novel index informing on ‘what has been restored by comparison to what should have been recovered’: the ‘Achieved Restoration’ index (AR).
PB Elsevier
SN 1470-160X
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/80233
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/80233
LA eng
NO Ecological Indicators, 2021, vol. 123, 107362
DS UVaDOC
RD 02-dic-2025