The long-term restoration of ecosystem complexity

Autor: Asun Rodríguez-Uña, Antton Alberdi, David Moreno-Mateos, Elly Morriën, Daniel Montoya, Wim H. van der Putten
Přispěvatelé: Terrestrial Ecology (TE), Harvard University [Cambridge], Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Basque Foundation for Science (Ikerbasque), IT University of Copenhagen, University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA), Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), Station d'écologie théorique et expérimentale (SETE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Nature Ecology and Evolution, 4(5), 676-685
Nature Ecology and Evolution, 4(5), 676-685. Springer Science+Business Media
Nature Ecology & Evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature, 2020, 4 (5), pp.676-685. ⟨10.1038/s41559-020-1154-1⟩
Nature Ecology and Evolution 4 (2020) 5
ISSN: 2397-334X
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1154-1
Popis: International audience; Multiple large-scale restoration strategies are emerging globally to counteract ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss. However, restoration often remains insufficient to offset that loss. To address this challenge, we propose to focus restoration science on the long-term (centuries to millennia) re-assembly of degraded ecosystem complexity integrating interaction network and evolutionary potential approaches. This approach provides insights into eco-evolutionary feedbacks determining the structure, functioning and stability of recovering ecosystems. Eco-evolutionary feedbacks may help to understand changes in the adaptive potential after disturbance of metacommunity hub species with core structural and functional roles for their use in restoration. Those changes can be studied combining a restoration genomics approach based on whole-genome sequencing with replicated space-for-time substitutions linking changes in genetic variation to functions or traits relevant to the establishment of evolutionarily resilient communities. This approach may set the knowledge basis for future tools to accelerate the restoration of ecosystems able to adapt to ongoing global changes.
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