Best practices in evaluation and restoration of degraded mediterranean environments
Let’s face it. There is no way to restore an ecosystem, not to mention an entire landscape. The amazing diversity of organisms contained in an ecosystem, even the tiniest one, and the variety of the interactions needed to generate so many functions should be regarded as a unique wonder. As ecologica...
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Best practices in evaluation and restoration of degraded mediterranean environmentsMerino García, AgustínDoni, SerenaEvelpidou, NikiFerreira, TeresaGarcía Arias, Ana IsabelMasciandaro, GraziaRodríguez González, Patricia M.WetlandsSustainable managementErosionLand rehabilitationEcosystem servicesEcosystem servicesLet’s face it. There is no way to restore an ecosystem, not to mention an entire landscape. The amazing diversity of organisms contained in an ecosystem, even the tiniest one, and the variety of the interactions needed to generate so many functions should be regarded as a unique wonder. As ecological restoration progresses, we are increasingly convinced that it can never substitute protection and conservation. Ecosystem’s complexity is so overwhelming, that we need to cut them into pieces before we can try to understand it. Not surprisingly, when it is time for rebuilding, we focus on dominant, key, charismatic species, hoping that the many bolts and nuts that are left aside will spontaneously join a machine that will run finely. Furthermore, we want the ecosystem recovered in a legislative period or a few decades, disregarding the increasing amount of evidence showing that the effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances can be detected after millennia of secondary succession. Ecological restoration is about speed and acceleration, thus assuming that tempo is not an integral part of ecological processes. We use large amounts of exogenous energy in the form of fertilizers, organic amendments, physical structures, geomorphic profiling, seed banks, machinery, nurseries and labor to summarize a process that may last for centuries into a few years or decades. While doing this, we forget that biodiversity is inversely related to energy flow (d2B/dt2 = –dD/dt, where B is biomass, D is diversity and t is time, as Margalef (1968) suggested). Clearly, more studies are needed to understand the relationship between energy inputs, community assemblage and ecosystem function, that is, between resources committed and restoration success.IBADER (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela-Lugo)Merino García, AgustínDoni, SerenaEvelpidou, NikiGarcía Arias, Ana IsabelMasciandaro, GraziaRodríguez González, Patricia M.Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Edafoloxía e Química AgrícolaUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Economía Aplicada20192019-01-0120192019-01-01bookhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33info:eu-repo/semantics/bookapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10347/42217reponame:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostelainstname:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/422172026-06-15T12:47:27Z |
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Best practices in evaluation and restoration of degraded mediterranean environments |
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Best practices in evaluation and restoration of degraded mediterranean environments |
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Best practices in evaluation and restoration of degraded mediterranean environments Merino García, Agustín Wetlands Sustainable management Erosion Land rehabilitation Ecosystem services Ecosystem services |
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Merino García, Agustín Doni, Serena Evelpidou, Niki Ferreira, Teresa García Arias, Ana Isabel Masciandaro, Grazia Rodríguez González, Patricia M. |
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Merino García, Agustín |
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Merino García, Agustín Doni, Serena Evelpidou, Niki Ferreira, Teresa García Arias, Ana Isabel Masciandaro, Grazia Rodríguez González, Patricia M. |
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Doni, Serena Evelpidou, Niki Ferreira, Teresa García Arias, Ana Isabel Masciandaro, Grazia Rodríguez González, Patricia M. |
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Merino García, Agustín Doni, Serena Evelpidou, Niki García Arias, Ana Isabel Masciandaro, Grazia Rodríguez González, Patricia M. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Edafoloxía e Química Agrícola Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Economía Aplicada |
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Wetlands Sustainable management Erosion Land rehabilitation Ecosystem services Ecosystem services |
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Wetlands Sustainable management Erosion Land rehabilitation Ecosystem services Ecosystem services |
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Let’s face it. There is no way to restore an ecosystem, not to mention an entire landscape. The amazing diversity of organisms contained in an ecosystem, even the tiniest one, and the variety of the interactions needed to generate so many functions should be regarded as a unique wonder. As ecological restoration progresses, we are increasingly convinced that it can never substitute protection and conservation. Ecosystem’s complexity is so overwhelming, that we need to cut them into pieces before we can try to understand it. Not surprisingly, when it is time for rebuilding, we focus on dominant, key, charismatic species, hoping that the many bolts and nuts that are left aside will spontaneously join a machine that will run finely. Furthermore, we want the ecosystem recovered in a legislative period or a few decades, disregarding the increasing amount of evidence showing that the effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances can be detected after millennia of secondary succession. Ecological restoration is about speed and acceleration, thus assuming that tempo is not an integral part of ecological processes. We use large amounts of exogenous energy in the form of fertilizers, organic amendments, physical structures, geomorphic profiling, seed banks, machinery, nurseries and labor to summarize a process that may last for centuries into a few years or decades. While doing this, we forget that biodiversity is inversely related to energy flow (d2B/dt2 = –dD/dt, where B is biomass, D is diversity and t is time, as Margalef (1968) suggested). Clearly, more studies are needed to understand the relationship between energy inputs, community assemblage and ecosystem function, that is, between resources committed and restoration success. |
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