SALLY HLADYZ* , , MARK O. GESSNER , PAUL S. GILLER*, JEŚUS POZO § AND GUY WOODWARD* *Environmental Research Institute, Department of Zoology, Ecology & Plant Science, University College Cork, Lee Maltings Building, Prospect Row, Cork, Ireland CSIRO Land and Water, Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre, Wodonga, Vic., Australia Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of...

T. P. Young,* D. A. Petersen and J. J. Clary Department of Plant Sciences and Ecology Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA *Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Restoration ecology is a young academic field, but one with enough history to judge it against past and current expectations of the science’s potential. The practice of ecological restoration ha...