Conservation aquaculture is becoming an important tool to support the recovery of declining marine species and meet human needs. However,…
Biology & Life Sciences
Rewilding and Restoration
As environmental pressures intensify and efforts to restore and rewild expand, there is an urgent need for a rigorous and relevant scientific evidence base to inform practical decisions and policy-making.
This Collection brings together research articles that explore the design, implementation, management, and outcomes of restoration and rewilding projects in terrestrial, freshwater, marine, and urban ecosystems that use a range of methodological approaches. It also includes interdisciplinary papers that integrate social and natural science approaches to understand, improve, and scale up restoration and rewilding in the coming UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
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PLOS ONE Conservation aquaculture as a tool for imperiled marine species: Evaluation of opportunities and risks for Olympia oysters, Ostrea lurida
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Image creditBrown field near tree by Federico Respini, CC BY 4.0PLOS ONE Long-term woodland restoration on lowland farmland through passive rewilding
Natural succession of vegetation on abandoned farmland provides opportunities for passive rewilding to re-establish native woodlands, but…
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Image creditAmazon Jungle by Nathalia Segato, CC BY 4.0PLOS ONE Fertilization and seasonality influence on the photochemical performance of tree legumes in forest plantation for area recovery in the Amazon
N-fixing leguminous species can reach atmospheric dinitrogen gas (N2), having an advantage under N-limited degraded environments. These…
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Image creditA herd of running zebras by sutirta budiman, CC BY 4.0PLOS ONE Enhancing monitoring of rewilding progress through wildlife tracking and remote sensing
Defaunation is a global threat to biodiversity that can be counteracted through trophic rewilding, a restoration strategy that promotes…
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Image creditWorld map photo by USGS, CC BY 4.0PLOS ONE Long-term assessment of ecosystem services at ecological restoration sites using Landsat time series
Reversing ecological degradation through restoration activities is a key societal challenge of the upcoming decade. However, lack of…
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PLOS ONE Restoration of gallery forest patches improves recruitment of motacú palms (Attalea princeps) while diversifying and increasing wildlife populations
Globally, forest-savanna mosaic landscapes are of significant conservation importance but have been widely impacted by human land-use. We…
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Image creditMorning Dew by Ochir-Erdene Oyunmedeg, CC BY 4.0PLOS ONE Seed encrusting with salicylic acid: A novel approach to improve establishment of grass species in ecological restoration
To achieve global ambitions in large scale ecological restoration, there is a need for approaches that improve the efficiency of…
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PLOS ONE A survey of current trends and suggested future directions in coral transplantation for reef restoration
Coral transplantation has been used in reef restoration for several decades, but information on the type of projects, their scope, scale,…
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Image creditGreen and purple plant during daytime by Crassula Care, CC BY 2.0PLOS ONE A biome-wide experiment to assess the effects of propagule size and treatment on the survival of Portulacaria afra (spekboom) truncheons planted to restore degraded subtropical thicket of South Africa
Insights from biome-wide experiments can improve efficacy of landscape-scale ecological restoration projects. Such insights enable…
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Image creditMan holding glass globe in hands by Bill Oxford, CC BY 4.0PLOS ONE Everything under control? Comparing Knepp Estate rewilding project with ‘traditional’ nature conservation
‘Rewilding’ is an increasingly prominent concept in conservation, but one that has attracted controversy. Debate frequently focuses on…
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PLOS ONE Establishment of soil strength in a nourished wetland using thin layer placement of dredged sediment
Coastal wetlands are experiencing accelerated rates of fragmentation and degradation due to sea-level rise, sediment deficits, subsidence,…
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PLOS ONE Seedling recruitment under isolated trees in a tea plantation provides a template for forest restoration in eastern Africa
Natural regeneration is less expensive than tree planting, but determining what species will arrive and establish to serve as templates…
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Image creditWild Dog Puppies by Joel Sileno, CC BY 4.0PLOS ONE The successful reintroduction of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) to Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Large carnivores have experienced widespread extirpation and species are now threatened globally. The ecological impact of the loss of…
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Image creditlandscape photography of woods by Imat Bagja Gumilar, CC BY 4.0PLOS ONE Global assessment of forest quality for threatened terrestrial vertebrate species in need of conservation translocation programs
Conservation actions such as habitat protection, restoration, and translocations are critical actions in preventing further extinctions of…
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Image creditgreen grass field near mountain by Chad George, CC BY 4.0PLOS ONE Restoration management of cattle resting place in mountain grassland
This study investigated the effect of restoration management of a weed-infested area, previously used as cattle resting place, on herbage…
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Image creditBrown Grass Field Photo by Winggo Tse, CC BY 4.0PLOS ONE Balancing the need for seed against invasive species risks in prairie habitat restorations
Adequate diversity and abundance of native seed for large-scale grassland restorations often require commercially produced seed from…
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Image creditSnowy Egret, Everglades, Florida byAlex Shutin, CC BY 4.0PLOS ONE Joint species distribution models of Everglades wading birds to inform restoration planning
Restoration of the Florida Everglades, a substantial wetland ecosystem within the United States, is one of the largest ongoing restoration…
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PLOS ONE Shade, light, and stream temperature responses to riparian thinning in second-growth redwood forests of northern California
Resource managers in the Pacific Northwest (USA) actively thin second-growth forests to accelerate the development of late-successional…
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Image creditPlant Soil by Михаил Павленко, CC BY 4.0PLOS ONE Soil bacterial communities and their associated functions for forest restoration on a limestone mine in northern Thailand
Opencast mining removes topsoil and associated bacterial communities that play crucial roles in soil ecosystem functioning. Understanding…
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Image creditGreen Trees Under Sunny Sky by CHUTTERSNAP, CC BY 4.0PLOS ONE Comparing the success of active and passive restoration in a tropical cloud forest landscape: A multi-taxa fauna approach
Tropical forest restoration initiatives are becoming more frequent worldwide in an effort to mitigate biodiversity loss and ecosystems…
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Image creditPhoto by by Sebastian Pena LambarriCC BY 0PLOS ONE Coastal restoration evaluated using dominant habitat characteristics and associated fish communities
Increasing coastal populations and urban development have led to the loss of estuarine habitats for fish and wildlife. Specifically, a…
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PLOS ONE Productive wetlands restored for carbon sequestration quickly become net CO2 sinks with site-level factors driving uptake variability
Inundated wetlands can potentially sequester substantial amounts of soil carbon (C) over the long-term because of slow decomposition and…
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Image creditKibo Summit, Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0PLOS ONE Naïve plant communities and individuals may initially suffer in the face of reintroduced megafauna: An experimental exploration of rewilding from an African savanna rangeland
Excluding large native mammals is an inverse test of rewilding. A 25-year exclosure experiment in an African savanna rangeland offers…
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PLOS ONE Top-down and sideways: Herbivory and cross-ecosystem connectivity shape restoration success at the salt marsh-upland ecotone
Wetland restoration provides remarkable opportunities to understand vegetation dynamics and to inform success of future projects through…
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PLOS ONE Ecological restoration of agricultural land can improve its contribution to economic development
Given the negative environmental impacts of intensive agriculture, there is an urgent need to reduce the impact of food production on…
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PLOS ONE Challenges during the execution, results, and monitoring phases of ecological restoration: Learning from a country-wide assessment
Outcomes from restoration projects are often difficult for policymakers and stakeholders to assess, but this information is fundamental…
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Image creditLondon Bridge Australia by Bernard Spragg. NZ, CC 0PLOS ONE Public support for restoration: Does including ecosystem services as a goal engage a different set of values and attitudes than biodiversity protection alone?
The ecosystem services concept has come into wide use in conservation and natural resource management, partly due to its appeal as an…