Benefits of water-related ecological infrastructure investments to support sustainable land-use: a review of evidence from critically water-stressed catchments in South Africa by Alanna J. Rebelo, Petra B. Holden, Karen Esler, Mark G. New

“…Investments generally aim to protect or restore ecological infrastructure—the underlying framework of ecosystems, functions and processes that supply ecosystem services—for multiple benefits to society. …”
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Spatiotemporal pattern and influencing mechanism of the flood-regulating ecosystem service capacity and demand in China’s Yellow River basin, 2000–2020 by Jingjing Liu, Jing Wang, Yan Tan

“…The capacity-demand relationship in the lower reach needs to be improved by restoring ecologically functional land and enhancing the capacity of artificial hydro facilities.…”
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Rewilding the Atlantic Forest: Restoring the fauna and ecological interactions of a protected area by Fernando A.S. Fernandez, Marcelo L. Rheingantz, Luísa Genes, Caio F. Kenup, Maron Galliez, Tomaz Cezimbra, Bruno Cid, Leandro Macedo, Bernardo B.A. Araujo, Bruno S. Moraes, Adrian Monjeau, Alexandra S. Pires

“…Refaunation has shown promise as a low-cost, effective way to restore ecological processes in defaunated Neotropical forests.…”
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Duckweeds for Phytoremediation of Polluted Water by Yuzhen Zhou, Anton Stepanenko, Olena Kishchenko, Jianming Xu, Nikolai Borisjuk

“…Thanks to their efficient absorption of nitrogen- and phosphate-containing pollutants, duckweeds play an important role in the restorative ecology of water reservoirs. Moreover, compared to other species, duckweed species and ecotypes demonstrate exceptionally high adaptivity to a variety of environmental factors; indeed, duckweeds remove and convert many contaminants, such as nitrogen, into plant biomass. …”
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Incorporating wildlife connectivity into forest plan revision under the United States Forest Service's 2012 planning rule by Matthew A. Williamson, Tyler G. Creech, Gunnar Carnwath, Beverly Dixon, Virginia Kelly

“…These new regulations include the first requirements in U.S. public land management history for National Forests to evaluate, protect, and/or restore ecological connectivity as they revise their land management plans. …”
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Ecological Grassland Restoration—A South African Perspective by Clinton Carbutt, Kevin Kirkman

“…The “biodiversity approach” has limitations and is best suited to restoring ecological processes rather than attempting to match the original pristine state. …”
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Research characteristics and hotspots of the relationship between soil microorganisms and vegetation: A bibliometric analysis by Yaqin He, Yahui Lan, Han Zhang, Shaoming Ye

“…The current research hotspots are “Loess Plateau”, “vegetation restoration”, “ecological restoration”, “fungal community”, and “ecoenzymatic stoichiometry”. …”
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Predicting areas important for ecological connectivity throughout Canada by Richard Pither, Paul O’Brien, Angela Brennan, Kristen Hirsh-Pearson, Jeff Bowman

“…Governments around the world have acknowledged that urgent action is needed to conserve and restore ecological connectivity to help reverse the decline of biodiversity. …”
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Removing Mill Weirs in France: The Structure and Dynamics of an Environmental Controversy by Regis Barraud

“…In France, as in many other parts of Europe and North America, the vast increase in the number of dam removals in order to restore ecological continuity has led to a large number of local conflicts, resulting in a significant ecological controversy. …”
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Structure, composition and carbon stocks of woody plant community in assisted and unassisted ecological succession in a Tamaulipan thornscrub, Mexico by Eduardo Alanís-Rodríguez, Víctor M. Molina-Guerra, Alejandro Collantes-Chávez-Costa, Enrique Buendía-Rodríguez, Arturo Mora-Olivo, Laura Sánchez-Castillo, Alejandro G. Alcalá-Rojas

“…The restoration of plant communities can be made by unassisted (passive restoration, where the community recover by itself) and assisted (active restoration) ecological succession. It is imperative to know the scope of both types of activities to guide future restoration actions by evaluating the properties and functioning of the intervened communities. …”
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Evidence of Taxonomic and Functional Recovery of Macroinvertebrate Communities Following River Restoration by Judy England, Chloe Hayes, James White, Tim Johns

“…Restoration actions aimed at addressing these changes and restoring ecological integrity are increasing, but evidence of the effectiveness of these actions is variable. …”
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Morphometric Changes in Three Species of Euglossini (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Response to Landscape Structure by Mariléa Ribeiro, Willian Moura Aguiar, Lorena Andrade Nunes, Lazaro da Silva Carneiro

“…Thus, sustainable practices of land use, such as agroforestry systems, are adopted with proposal of improving environmental quality and restore ecological processes. In flying insects, fragmentation may cause changes in the wing shape and size. …”
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Green culture, environmental innovativeness, green intellectual capital and circular economy implementation behaviour: A sequential mediation model by Michael Karikari Appiah, Aloysius Sam, Vida Osei-Agyemang, Alex Nsowah

“…The paper recommends that the newly developed model be used by practitioners to explain coordinated economic, ecological and social development, and restore ecological environment. Policymakers are encouraged to facilitate the reinforcement of environmental policies and subsequent realization of Sustainable Development Goals.…”
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Phenology-based cropland retirement remote sensing model: a case study in Yan’an, Loess Plateau, China by Taixia Wu, Xuan Zhao, Shudong Wang, Xiaoxiang Zhang, Kai Liu, Jingyu Yang

“…The conversion of inefficient cropland to forest or grassland is a policy aimed at restoring ecology, improving the environment, and promoting economic development. …”
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Ecological Restoration and Transformation of Maoming Oil Shale Mining Area: Experience and Inspirations by Difei Zhao, Wei Zhang, Wanyu Xie, Chaowei Liu, Yingying Yang, Yingxing Chen, Chongyang Ren, Hongyu Chen, Qing Zhang, Sotiris Folinas

“…Through the management of mine pit treatment, vegetation restoration, ecological park construction, and tourism resource development, the abandoned open-pit mine has been transformed into an ecological park combining ecosystem, tourism, and cultural resources. …”
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Indicators of Coastal Wetlands Restoration Success: A Systematic Review by Charles Cadier, Elisa Bayraktarov, Elisa Bayraktarov, Renee Piccolo, Maria Fernanda Adame

“…Future studies assessing coastal wetlands restoration ecological outcomes should include ecosystem function indicators and monitor the sites over periods adequate to their recovery.…”
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Grazing by over-abundant native herbivores jeopardizes conservation goals in semi-arid reserves by Charlotte H. Mills, Helen Waudby, Graeme Finlayson, David Parker, Matthew Cameron, Mike Letnic

“…Conservation reserves in dryland regions aim to restore ecological processes and facilitate biodiversity conservation by functioning as refuges from grazing by livestock. …”
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Potential contribution of fish restocking to the recovery of deteriorated coral reefs: an alternative restoration method? by Uri Obolski, Lilach Hadany, Avigdor Abelson

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RURAL LANDSCAPE MULTIFUNCTIONALITY: A GIS BASED APPROACH FOR ASSESSING AREAS CHARACTERISED BY ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS by Maurizia Sigura

“…Recently, a new view of the ecological network concept has been developed to produce a more multiobjective vision that defines the ecological network as a system of natural and/or semi-natural landscape elements, that is configured and managed with the objective of maintaining or restoring ecological functions, while also providing opportunities for the sustainable use of natural resources. …”
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Predicting areas important for ecological connectivity throughout Canada. by Richard Pither, Paul O'Brien, Angela Brennan, Kristen Hirsh-Pearson, Jeff Bowman

“…Governments around the world have acknowledged that urgent action is needed to conserve and restore ecological connectivity to help reverse the decline of biodiversity. …”
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