Restoration Ecology

by Jordan, William R., III; Gilpin, Michael E.; Aber, John D.

• ISBN13: 9780521331104
• ISBN10: 0521331102
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1988-01-01
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Although interest in ecological restoration has grown rapidly in recent years, restoration efforts have been highly empirical and have therefore been of only marginal interest to theoretical ecologists concerned with the structure and dynamics of communities. The ability to reassemble a community or ecosystem and to make it function properly actually represents a critical test of ecological understanding in the most fundamental sense. It is this idea of restoration as a technique - and even a paradigm - for ecological studies, leading in turn to improved restoration methods, that is the subject of this book.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Assembling Whole Systems in the Field

Synthetic Ecology

Partial or Piecewise Restoration in the Field

Restored Systems as Opportunities for Basic Research

Doing Restoration Ecology

Index

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