Restoration Success: How Is It Being Measured?

By Maria C Ruiz-Jaen, T. Mitchell Aide. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Measuring the success of reforestation for restoring biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (2016, background): “68 A combination of vegetation structure, faunal and floral species diversity/composition 69 and ecosystem function have been suggested as a minimum set of attributes to assess the 70 success of restoration projects (Ruiz-Jaen and Aide 2005, Wortley et al. 2013).”
Faustian bargains? Restoration realities in the context of biodiversity offset policies (2012, background): “Success can be defined in many ways (Ruiz-Jaen and Aide, 2005), and because success or failure are hardly ever black and white concepts, restoration projects may succeed in achieving some goals but not others (Zedler, 2007).”
A unified framework for the restoration of Southeast Asian mangroves—bridging ecology, society and economics (2009, background): “Ruiz-Jaen and Aide (2005) suggested three simple but effective measures for assessing restoration success: (i) species diversity— this can be measured by the presence and abundance of species, (ii) vegetation structure—this can be measured by vegetation cover and (iii) ecological process—this can…”
Functionality of restored mangroves: A review (2008, background): “It will also be important to define criteria for monitoring mangrove restoration projects to include main ecosystem attributes namely: biodiversity, vegetation structure and ecological processes (Ruiz-Jaen and Aide, 2005).”
Ecological Restoration and Physiology: An Overdue Integration (2008, background): “However, contemporary reviews that focus on measuring the effectiveness of restoration have failed to emphasize the role for physiology (e.g., Ruiz-Jaen and Aide 2005).”
Contemporary forest restoration: A review emphasizing function (2014, background): “…and Sayer, 2012; Sayer et al., 2013), and identify suitable sites for intervention, prioritizing among sites for allocating scarce resources (Lamb et al., 2012), and for guiding the monitoring design and determining success (Ruiz-Jaén and Aide, 2005b; Bestelmeyer et al., 2006; Holl and Aide, 2011).”
Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is? (2014, background): “of management is to maintain a system in a particular state or to return it to that state—not simply to create a resilient ecosystem without reference to this goal (Ruiz-Jaen and Aide, 2005; Hallett et al., 2013).”
Are Socioeconomic Benefits of Restoration Adequately Quantified? A Meta‐analysis of Recent Papers (2000–2008) in Restoration Ecology and 12 Other Scientific Journals (2010, background): “Both Ruiz-Jaen and Aide (2005) and Weiher (2007) have done similar surveys, but focused on fundamental ecology rather than broader socioeconomic links.”