Restoration Ecology

Dr Jelte van Andel is Professor of Plant Ecology, recently retired from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His interest in the fundamentals of plant population ecology and vegetation dynamics increasingly includes the applicability of concepts and theories to problems facing society, aiming at improving the communication between scientists and citizens. Dr James Aronson is a researcher in restoration ecology at the Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive (of the CNRS), in Montpellier, France and research associate of the Missouri Botanical Garden, USA, where he helped found the Restoring Natural Capital Alliance. He is a representative-at-large of the Society for Ecological Restoration.

• Contributors, ixForeword, xiiiPreface, xvPART 1 SETTING THE SCENE, 11 Getting Started, 3JELTE VAN ANDEL AND JAMES ARONSON2 Unifying Concepts, 9JELTE VAN ANDEL, AB P. GROOTJANS AND JAMES ARONSON3 Environmental Management and Restoration in a Changing Climate, 23RICHARD J. HOBBS4 Planning and Implementing Successful Landscape-Scale Restoration, 30DAVID J. TONGWAY AND JOHN A. LUDWIGPART 2 ECOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS, 435 Landscape Ecology, 45RUDY VAN DIGGELEN, RICHARD J. HOBBS AND LADISLAV MIKO6 Ecology of Ecosystems and Biotic Communities, 59JOHAN VAN DE KOPPEL, JELTE VAN ANDEL AND ARJEN BIERE7 Populations: Ecology and Genetics, 73ARJEN BIERE, JELTE VAN ANDEL AND JOHAN VAN DE KOPPEL8 Reintroductions: Learning from Successes and Failures, 87SIPKE E. VAN WIERENPART 3 EXPERIENCES AND LESSONS, BIOME BY BIOME, 1019 Restoration of Tropical Forests, 103KAREN D. HOLL10 Restoration of Arid and Semi-Arid Lands, 115DAVID A. BAINBRIDGE11 Restoration of Mediterranean-Type Woodlands and Shrublands, 130V. RAMÓN VALLEJO, EDITH B. ALLEN, JAMES ARONSON, JULI G. PAUSAS, JORDI CORTINA AND JULIO R. GUTIÉRREZ12 Restoration of Temperate Forests: An European Approach, 145ANTON FISCHER AND HOLGER FISCHER13 Restoring Temperate Forests: A North American Perspective, 161DEAN APOSTOL AND AYN SHLISKY14 Restoration of Dry Grasslands and Heathlands, 173JAN P. BAKKER, RUDY VAN DIGGELEN, RENÉE M. BEKKER AND ROB H. MARRS15 Restoration of Arctic–Alpine Ecosystems, 189BERNHARD KRAUTZER, CHRISTIAN UHLIG AND HELMUT WITTMANN16 Restoration of Mires, 203AB P. GROOTJANS, RUDY VAN DIGGELEN, HANS JOOSTEN AND ALFONS J.P. SMOLDERS17 Restoration of Rivers and Floodplains, 214JENNY MANT, ANDREW B. GILL, MARTIN JANES AND DI HAMMOND18 Restoration of Freshwater Lakes, 233RAMESH D. GULATI, L. MIGUEL DIONISIO PIRES AND ELLEN VAN DONK19 Restoration of Salt Marshes, 248JAN P. BAKKERPART 4 RESTORING TO THE FUTURE, 26320 Biological Invasions, Resilience and Restoration, 265MIRIJAM GAERTNER, PATRICIA M. HOLMES AND DAVID M. RICHARDSON21 Shifting Baselines: Dynamics of Evolution and Community Change in a Changing World, 281KATHARINE SUDING AND ELIZABETH LEGER22 Restoration Ecology and the Path to Sustainability, 293JAMES ARONSON AND JELTE VAN ANDELGlossary, 305References, 315Restoration Ecology Author Index, 360Restoration Ecology Subject Index, 368Colour plate pages fall between pp. 144 and 145.

“Overall, I think that this book makes a genuinely useful contribution to the fields of scaling and governance and would highly recommend it as reading for those who are grappling with similar issues.”  (Restoration Ecology, 1 March 2015)“As well as being a useful text for university students, the book – particularly those chapters summarising recent thinking on ecological topics relevant to restoration ecology – will be valuable to those already in the field.”  (Ecological Management & Restoration, 22 January 2014)“Not a ‘‘how-to’’ book, but a fine overview of many of the conceptual and interdisciplinary issues involved, and biome-specific overviews that are still European in emphasis, but now more global in scope.”  (Restoration Ecology, 1 July 2013)“The text has now been enlarged, enhanced and updated, and the sub-title The New Frontier added to promote ecological restoration as the best bridge available to reconcile the opposing imperatives of nature conservation and economic development...All of these texts do an excellent job presenting the complexities of restoring nature, which brings together many disciplines and requires an understanding of the both ecological principles.  Their different approaches to the subject matter are complementary and will be a much used resource for academics and practitioners.”  (British Ecological Society Bulletin, 1 June 2013)