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Where Is More Important Than How in Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Restoration

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Where Is More Important Than How in Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Restoration

DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.626843

Type: Publication

Year: 2021

Citations: 62

AZORES DEEP-SEA RESEARCH
Publication Open access October 2021

Where Is More Important Than How in Coastal and Marine Ecosystems Restoration

Frontiers in Marine Science

10.3389/fmars.2021.626843
Open DOI
Total authors
33
Involved team members
2
Citations
62
References
70

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Abstract

Restoration is considered an effective strategy to accelerate the recovery of biological communities at local scale. However, the effects of restoration actions in the marine ecosystems are still unpredictable. We performed a global analysis of published literature to identify the factors increasing the probability of restoration success in coastal and marine systems. Our results confirm that the majority of active restoration initiatives are still concentrated in the northern hemisphere and that most of information gathered from restoration efforts derives from a relatively small subset of species. The analysis also indicates that many studies are still experimental in nature, covering small spatial and temporal scales. Despite the limits of assessing restoration effectiveness in absence of a standardized definition of success, the context (degree of human impact, ecosystem type, habitat) of where the restoration activity is undertaken is of greater relevance to a successful outcome than how (method) the restoration is carried out. Contrary to expectations, we found that restoration is not necessarily more successful closer to protected areas (PA) and in areas of moderate human impact. This result can be motivated by the limits in assessing the success of interventions and by the tendency of selecting areas in more obvious need of restoration, where the potential of actively restoring a degraded site is more evident. Restoration sites prioritization considering human uses and conservation status present in the region is of vital importance to obtain the intended outcomes and galvanize further actions.

Authors

2 involved team members
C
Chris Mcowen
0000-0003-4840-2167

UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom

L
Loredana Papa

Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

C
Christoffer Boström
0000-0003-2845-8331

Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

P
Pol Capdevila
0000-0002-2842-4302

Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

L
Laura Carugati
0000-0002-0921-6911

Department of Life and Environmental Science, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

E
Emma Cebrian
0000-0001-7588-0135

Facultat de Ciències, Institut d'Ecologia Aquàtica, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain

F
Francesco De Leo
0000-0001-9709-6114

Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

+1 more

D
Dario Fiorentino
0000-0003-1097-4784

Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg (HIFMB), Oldenburg, Germany

+1 more

K
Karine Gagnon
0000-0002-0971-7740

Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

C
Cristina Gambi
0000-0001-6160-6004

Department of Life and Environmental Science, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

B
Bernat Hereu
0000-0001-6247-7638

Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

S
Silvija Kipson
0000-0001-8313-9881

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

C
Cristina Linares
0000-0003-3855-2743

Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

J
Juliette Martin
0000-0002-2862-8540

UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom

A
Alba Medrano
0000-0003-0513-9215

Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

I
I. Montero-Serra
0000-0003-0284-0591

Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

A
Antonio Pusceddu
0000-0002-7637-4784

Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

K
Katerina Sevastou

Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Greece

J
Jana Verdura
0000-0003-0662-1206

Facultat de Ciències, Institut d'Ecologia Aquàtica, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain

G
Giuseppe Guarnieri
0000-0002-7334-9030

Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

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Record details

Type
article
Language
EN
Volume
8
ISSN
2296-7745

Keywords

Restoration ecology Environmental resource management Context (archaeology) Environmental restoration Ecosystem Scale (ratio) Habitat Environmental planning Geography Environmental science Ecology Cartography Biology Archaeology

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