Structural and Functional Loss in Restored Wetland Ecosystems

Moreno-Mateos, David; Power, Mary E.; Comı́n, Francisco A.; Yockteng, Roxana

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001247

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“…At present, even with best practices applied, and even in extra-tropical wetlands, where large numbers of restoration projects have taken place over the last 30 years, we are only achieving ca. 70 % of what we aim for, in terms of both biodiversity maintenance and ecosystem service procurement (Moreno-Mateos et al 2012). We should be able to do much better in the next 20 years with greater investment in science and technology, although a need remains to make these practices economically competitive in the shortterm (Stern 2006).…”

Section: Challenges Of Forest Restoration and Purpose Of The Congressmentioning

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Restoring forests: What constitutes success in the twenty-first century?

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Forest loss and degradation is occurring at high rates but humankind is experiencing historical momentum that favors forest restoration. Approaches to restoration may follow various paradigms depending on stakeholder objectives, regional climate, or the degree of site degradation. The vast amount of land requiring restoration implies the need for spatial prioritization of restoration efforts according to cost-benefit analyses that include ecological risks. To design resistant and resilient ecosystems that can adapt to emerging circumstances, an adaptive management approach is needed. Global change, in particular, imparts a high degree of uncertainty about the future ecological and societal conditions of forest ecosystems to be restored, as well as their desired goods and services. We must also reconsider the suite of species incorporated into restoration with the aim of & Douglass F. Jacobs

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Restoring forests: What constitutes success in the twenty-first century?

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“…First, by pooling various small offset actions within a larger offsetting project, the banking mechanism better guarantees ecological and conservation successes [54,55]. Combining the offsetting liabilities of several developers over a larger area providing greater ecological benefits increases the chances of successful offsets coming from biodiversity banks.…”

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“…In this context, the ecological success of BO remains uncertain and hard to predict. Restoration actions in particular have yielded mixed results, revealing difficulties in the recovery of the whole targeted ecosystem, with substantial and unrecovered ecological losses [54,62].…”

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The Biodiversity Offsetting Dilemma: Between Economic Rationales and Ecological Dynamics

Calvet

Napoléone²,

Salles

2015

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Although many countries have included biodiversity offsetting (BO) requirements in their environmental regulations over the past four decades, this mechanism has recently been the object of renewed political interest. Incorporated into the mitigation hierarchy in three steps aimed at avoiding, reducing and offsetting residual impacts on biodiversity arising from development projects, BO is promoted as the way to achieve the political goal of No Net Loss of biodiversity (NNL). The recent success of BO is mainly based on its ability to provide economic incentives for biodiversity conservation. However, the diversity of BO mechanisms (direct offsets, banking mechanism and offsetting funds) and the various institutional frameworks within which they are applied generate substantial confusion about their economic and ecological implications. In this article, we first analyze the rationale for the BO approach from the welfare and ecological economics. We show that both these frameworks support the use of BO to address environmental externalities, but that they differ in how they consider the substitutability issue and levels of sustainability with regard to natural and manufactured capital, and in how they address ecological concerns. We then examine the economic and ecological performance criteria of BO from conceptual and empirical perspectives. We highlight that the three BO mechanisms involve different economic and ecological logics and inherent benefits, but also potential risks in meeting biodiversity conservation targets. We lastly investigate the ecological constraints with respect to the BO OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 7358 practice, and economic and organizational limitations of the BO system that may impede achievement of NNL goals. We then reveal the existence of a tension between the economic and ecological rationales in conducting BO that requires making choices about the NNL policy objectives. Finally, this article questions the place of BO in conservation policies and discusses the trade-off between political will and ecological opportunities involved in the BO approach.

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“…Se infi ere que los humedales de Concepción con una matriz menos intervenida, presentan una mayor preservación de su biodiversidad natural, lo cual permitiría conservar un mayor número de funciones ecosistémicas que humedales que son más homogéneos desde el punto de vista de las especies y por tanto su estructura (Loreau et al, 2001, Moreno-Mateos et al, 2012. Esto tiene relación con la provisión de servicios ecosisté-micos tanto directa como indirectamente.…”

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Patrones de urbanización en la biodiversidad de humedales urbanos en Concepción metropolitano

Rojas¹,

Sepúlveda-Zúñiga²,

Barbosa³

et al. 2015

Rev. geogr. Norte Gd.

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RESUMENLa urbanización en Concepción metropolitano (36°S) en las últimas décadas ha impactado áreas de valor ecológico, tales como humedales y lagunas. Aquí analizamos la perturbación de parámetros de biodiversidad en seis humedales urbanos, mediante la exploración y uso de indicadores. Se proponen tres indicadores: naturalidad y riqueza de macrolepidópteros y plantas, los que se evalúan mediante modelos de regresión múltiple. Los resultados indican que los humedales con menor grado de perturbación antrópica se encuentran ubicados dentro de una reserva protegida y rodeados de una matriz de paisaje seminatural; mientras que los más perturbados están más próximos a la urbanización. Además, la riqueza de macrolepidópteros se ve más afectada por la distancia a carreteras, en cambio la riqueza de plantas por la densidad de viviendas. Se genera una herramienta para la evaluación de efectos de la urbanización en humedales urbanos.Palabras clave: Humedales, Urbanización, Biodiversidad, Naturalidad ABSTRACTUrbanization of the Metropolitan region of Concepción (36°S) in the last decades has impacted on the ecological value of areas such as wetlands and lagoons. Here, we analyse the disturbance to biodiversity indicators in six urban wetlands. Three measures are proposed: a naturalness indicator and two Macrolepidoptera plant indicators of species richness. Multiple regression models were developed for the assessment of indicators. Results show that the wetlands with the lowest degree of human interference are located in a protected area and surrounded by a matrix of semi-natural landscapes, whereas the more disturbed wetlands are those closer to areas of urbanization. Results indicate that macrolepidopterans richness is more affected by the distance to roads, in contrast with the richness of plants, which is affected by housing density. We generated a tool for the assessment of urbanization effects in urban wetlands.

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Structural and Functional Loss in Restored Wetland Ecosystems

Abstract: In restored wetland ecosystems with apparently natural hydrology and biological structure, biogeochemical function may remain degraded, even a century after restoration efforts.

Cited by 703 publications

References 54 publications

Restoring forests: What constitutes success in the twenty-first century?

Restoring forests: What constitutes success in the twenty-first century?

The Biodiversity Offsetting Dilemma: Between Economic Rationales and Ecological Dynamics

Patrones de urbanización en la biodiversidad de humedales urbanos en Concepción metropolitano

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