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The science and practice of helping degraded, damaged or destroyed ecosystems recover, including habitat replanting and protection of remaining areas.
Flinders University researchers resampled replanted sites over six years and found different parts of the soil fungal community recover at different rates. Vegetation, the usual yardstick of replanting, does not automatically show soil recovery, the Flinders researchers warn.
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Two Pompeu Fabra researchers spent a month on Ascension Island studying how a 19th-century planting project created a rainforest. Víctor Maull said the model they are working with explains a local case, and the lab wants to transfer what it learns elsewhere.
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TUM's Tina Heger and colleagues argue in Nature Climate Change that new climate-driven species mixes should reshape conservation goals. Restoration would then aim at how a site will function decades from now.
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Microsoft is answering data center opposition with native trees and 400-plus acres of woodland and prairie restoration in San Antonio. Neighbors also object to lights and noise that last as long as a site runs, while the plan centers on replacing cleared land.
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Sophie von der Heyden's review, the first across Africa's coast, finds seagrass restoration trials in six countries and meadow loss data in only four. Elsewhere the status of meadows is unknown, and the handful of trials is too small to show which restoration methods work.
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