Thursday
04Mar2010
Entries in restoration (33)
Tuesday
02Mar2010
Thursday
25Feb2010
Can biomanipulation of the sea rescue a collapsed fishery?
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Research Briefs | Feb 25, 2010
Research Briefs | Feb 25, 2010 The cod stock in the Baltic Sea collapsed in the 1990s because of overfishing and climate change, and this once-valuable fishery has not yet recovered. Could intensified harvesting of sprat—a small fish that eats cod eggs and competes with young cod for planktonic food—be the solution to restore cod, as some people suggest?
Thursday
25Feb2010
Study finds post-restoration wetland succession highly variable
in Research Briefs | Feb 25, 2010
Research Briefs | Feb 25, 2010 A new study from researchers at the University of Illinois has looked at wetland restoration projects across the state and found that successional trends vary substantially from one site to another. The study findings have implications for the Clean Water Act and its ability to meet its mandate of enforcing no net-loss of wetland area or function in the United States...
Tuesday
02Feb2010
Adverse effects: when stream restoration improves habitat for invasive fish
in Research Briefs | Feb 2, 2010
Research Briefs | Feb 2, 2010 Stream restoration is a commonly used tool for improving the habitat of threatened native fish, particularly salmonids, which have suffered recent declines due to human disturbances. However, as a new study shows, restoration efforts can create their own problems for native fish by unintentionally improving the habitat of invasive species...
Friday
22Jan2010
The value of 'ignorance' in restoration
in Research Briefs | Jan 22, 2010
Research Briefs | Jan 22, 2010 We interview Dr. Eugene Turner, a leading wetland scientist at Louisiana State University. He argues that restoration practitioners need to abandon a knowledge-based world view and start embracing ignorance...
Tuesday
19Jan2010
Can invasive species enhance the competitve ability of native grasses?
in Research Briefs | Jan 19, 2010
Research Briefs | Jan 19, 2010 Over the past few years, restoration ecologists have made a surprising discovery - the invasion of exotic plants may enhance the competitive ability of native species. Scientists hypothesize that native plants which survive an invasion of exotic species may possess a competitive advantage against the invader which is then reinforced through evolutionary selection...
Thursday
14Jan2010
The ecological benefits of reduced stream flows
in Research Briefs | Jan 14, 2010
Research Briefs | Jan 14, 2010 In the conservation world, conventional wisdom holds that restricting the hydrology of a stream is a bad thing. However, a new article in the journal BioSciences provides a contrarian perspective...
Tuesday
12Jan2010
Valuing ecosystem services from wetland restoration
in Research Briefs | Jan 12, 2010
Research Briefs | Jan 12, 2010 How much are ecosystem services from wetland restoration worth to society? Researchers try to put a dollar figure on three ecosystem services from a program restoring forested wetlands in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley...
Monday
11Jan2010
The impact of stream restoration on macroinvertebrates
in Research Briefs | Jan 11, 2010
Research Briefs | Jan 11, 2010 The enhancement of in-stream habitat has emerged as a major river restoration tool with over $1 billion spent over the last ten years. For all that money spent, the question arises whether restoration projects are consistently benefiting aquatic organisms...