Bamboos ecological functions on environmental services and productive ecosystems restoration

Green Roofs as Urban Ecosystems: Ecological Structures, Functions, and Services

Ecological Restoration, Global Challenges, Social Aspects and Environmental Benefits

This book consists of 14 chapters covering important aspects in regards to various terrestrial ecosystems, wetlands, river systems, mine site rehabilitation, marsh ecology and heavy metals pollution. Also aims to fill some of the information gaps in ecological restoration, particularly in under-researched ecosystems around the world. Restoration ecology emerged as a separate field in ecology in...

Socio-ecological complexity and the restoration of river ecosystems

Understanding socio-ecological characteristics associated with rivers and their catchments, and using that understanding to effectively manage and restore river ecosystems, is an increasingly complex challenge. While great strides have been made in the last half century in understanding rivers as ecological systems, human exploitation of river water and riparian zones have frustrated river mana...

Moving beyond the banks: hyporheic restoration is fundamental to restoring ecological services and functions of streams.

Stream restoration needs to consider the hyporheic zone just as much as the surface and benthic regions.

Restoration of ecosystem services for environmental markets.

Ecological restoration is an activity that ideally results in the return of an ecosystem to an undisturbed state. Ecosystem services are the benefits humans derive from ecosystems. The two have been joined to support growing environmental markets with the goal of creating restoration-based credits that can be bought and sold. However, the allure of these markets may be overshadowing shortcoming...