Restoration of ecosystem services and biodiversity: conflicts and opportunities.

By J. Bullock, J. Aronson, Adrian C. Newton, Richard F. Pywell, J. Rey‐Benayas. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2011

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Ecological restoration is becoming regarded as a major strategy for increasing the provision of ecosystem services as well as reversing biodiversity losses. Here, we show that restoration projects can be effective in enhancing both, but that conflicts can arise, especially if single services are targeted in isolation. Furthermore, recovery of biodiversity and services can be slow and incomplete. Despite this uncertainty, new methods of ecosystem service valuation are suggesting that the economic benefits of restoration can outweigh costs. Payment for Ecosystem Service schemes could therefore provide incentives for restoration, but require development to ensure biodiversity and multiple services are enhanced and the needs of different stakeholders are met. Such approaches must be implemented widely if new global restoration targets are to be achieved.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services in Costa Rica (2013, background): “Similarly, Bullock et al. (2011) showed that interventions to restore ecosystems for increasing the provision of one ES can benefit other ES, but that trade-offs can also arise.”
Ecological theory provides strong support for habitat restoration (2017, background): “During the past century, most ecosystems have faced large-scale degradation as a result of increasing influence of agriculture, urbanisation, climate change and other human-related factors (Bakker and Berendse, 1999; Walther et al., 2009; Bullock et al., 2011; Steffen et al., 2015).”
Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change (2013, background): “However, given the urgent need to halt and reverse the degradation of key ecosystem properties (UNEP, 2009), and given the inevitable conflicts between biological conservation and social and economic demands (Polasky et al., 2008; Bullock et al., 2011), restoration efforts will in practice have to b”
Dung beetles as indicators of tropical forest restoration success: Is it possible to recover species and functional diversity? (2014, background): “Ecological restoration has been considered one of the major strategies to mitigate the ongoing biodiversity crisis and is being increasingly applied worldwide (Bullock et al., 2011; Montoya et al., 2012; Rands et al., 2010).”
Estimating population size of a nocturnal burrow-nesting seabird using acoustic monitoring and habitat mapping (2014, background): “Schemes may also encourage the creation of habitats or otherwise ecologically valuable areas (Bullock et al. 2011).”
Time, space, place, and the Bonn Challenge global forest restoration target (2017, background): “Conventionally, countries have viewed restoration as a cost to be paid rather than an investment that returns tangible benefits (Bullock et al. 2011).”
Achieving the national development agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through investment in ecological infrastructure: A case study of South Africa (2017, background): “Attempts at establishing payment for ecosystem services (PES) schemes have met with resistance in many countries, at least partly due to the public good nature of the services being provided (Farley et al., 2010; Bullock et al., 2011; Cumming et al., 2014).”
Ecological palaeoecology and conservation biology: controversies, challenges, and compromises (2012, background): “There is within conservation biology today an increasing emphasis on ecological and evolutionary processes (Klein et al. 2009) and on ecosystem services and goods in management (Bullock et al. 2011).”