Ecological restoration is an attempt to reset the ecological clock and return a damaged ecosystem to its predisturbance state—to turn a disused farm into a prairie or to convert a parcel of low-lying acreage into a vigorous wetland. Precise...

Although humans have probably tried to repair ecological damage and improve their local environment for as long as we have recognized the effects of careless use of our natural resources, restoration ecology is a relatively new field that attempts to...

Ecological restoration (hereafter restoration) is "the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been damaged, degraded or destroyed" (Society for Ecological Restoration Science & Policy Working Group). Restoration...

Restoration ecology is the study of renewing a degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystem through active human intervention. Restoration ecology specifically refers to the scientific study that has evolved as recently as the 1980s. Land managers,...