Mining subsided lakes are major obstacles for ecological restoration and resource reuse in mining regions. Transforming mining subsided lakes into artificial wetlands is an ecological restoration approach that has been attempted in China in recent years, but a value assessment of the approach still needs systematic research. This paper considers Jiuli Lake wetland, an artificial wetland derived...

1. In the face of continuing anthropogenic stressors to freshwater systems worldwide , the natural resilience and resistance of the freshwater ecosystems that enables them to cope with or recover rapidly from certain levels of perturbation is under significant threat. In many systems, the changes brought about through human activities have significantly altered the physical habitat and ecologic...

Conservation and environmental management are principal countermeasures to the degradation of marine ecosystems and their services. However, in many cases, current practices are insufficient to reverse ecosystem declines. We suggest that restoration ecology, the science underlying the concepts and tools needed to restore ecosystems, must be recognized as an integral element for marine conservat...

The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to prevent, halt, and reverse the degradation of ecosystems every continent. Disturbances stemming from anthropogenic or natural causes make plant community restoration challenging. introduction fast-growing weeds that generate high biomass produce copious seed is most threatening communities. A paradigm shift in ecosystem needed emphasize...

Organizations entrusted with responsibilities and resources to repair ecosystems have for many decades pursued their defining purpose against long odds created by a host of inherent challenges, notably the time frames required ecological recovery landscape-level stressors. Global change compounds these increasing shocks operating environments organizations. Interest in assessing organizational ...

INTRODUCTION Ecological restoration is a rapidly growing field of biology. Grassroots restoration activities have a long history and have recently increased dramatically. These are now being supplemented by state and federally sponsored restoration projects reaching tens and hundreds of millions of dollars, like those in the Everglades, Lake Tahoe, and the Sacramento River and Delta. Academic p...