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Ecological restoration

Planning & intervention

The process of assisting the recovery of a native ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed, with recovery assessed relative to an appropriate native reference model.
Gann, G. D., McDonald, T., Walder, B., et al. (2019). International principles and standards for the practice of ecological restoration. Restoration Ecology, 27(S1), S1–S46.
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