Experiences worldwide reveal that degraded lands restoration projects achieve little
success or fail. Hence, understanding the underlying causes and accordingly, devising …

This review provides an overview and integration of the use of resilience concepts to guide
natural resources management actions. We emphasize ecosystems and landscapes and …

This book describes the underlying water conditions and geologies that support viable
riparia, illustrates the ecological characteristics of riparia, and discusses how riparia are …

Heightening human impacts on the Earth result in widespread losses of production and
conservation values and make large‐scale ecosystem restoration increasingly urgent …

For chemistry, biology and bioengineering students, required courses in general chemistry
often fail to excite their interest in the many connections between chemistry and biology. This …

The extent of human‐induced change and damage to Earth's ecosystems renders
ecosystem repair an essential part of our future survival strategy, and this demands that …

Humans fragment landscapes to the detriment of wildlife. We review why fragmentation is
detrimental to wildlife (especially birds), review the effects of urbanization on birds inhabiting …

In the last two decades river restoration has become increasingly a field of research asking a
series of complex questions related not just to science but also to society. Why should we …

From my office at the Palisades Research Center, a few yards from the location of the
workshop that gave rise to this book, I look out on Roche Bonhomme to the east. Walking …

Restoration ecologists use reference information to define restoration goals, determine the
restoration potential of sites, and evaluate the success of restoration efforts. Basic to the …