What does the recovery debt really measure?
| Autor: | Tuomas Haapalehto, Santtu Kareksela, Merja Elo, Janne S. Kotiaho |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
restoration
Ecology business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Environmental resource management Measure (physics) Biodiversity Species diversity Ecosystem services lcsh:QH540-549.5 Debt ecosystem function Ecosystem management Ecosystem lcsh:Ecology Business Species richness recovery debt Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics biodiversity media_common |
| Zdroj: | Rethinking Ecology, Vol 2, Iss, Pp 41-45 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 2534-9260 |
| DOI: | 10.3897/rethinkingecology.2.21840 |
| Popis: | Recently, Moreno-Mateos et al. (2017) coined the concept ‘recovery debt’, clearly a close relative of the ecosystem service debt (Isbell et al. 2015), and gave it significance as “the interim reduction of biodiversity and biogeochemical functions occurring during ecosystem recovery”. Using rather impressive dataset consisting 3,035 sampling plots worldwide as an example, they analysed the recovery debt for plant and animal species diversity and abundance as well as for carbon and nitrogen cycling. Based on their analysis Moreno-Mateos et al. conclude that “… recovering and restored ecosystems have less abundance, diversity and cycling of carbon and nitrogen than ‘undisturbed’ ecosystems …”. Here, we scrutinize the proposed new concept and point out problems in conclusions resulting from the operationalization of the concept. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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