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A 10-year ecosystem restoration community of practice tracks large-scale restoration trends
Citation:
Daoust, R., T. Doss, M. Gorman, M. Harwell, AND C. Ulrich. A 10-year ecosystem restoration community of practice tracks large-scale restoration trends. Sapiens. Institut Veolia Environment, Paris, France, 7(2):23-28, (2014).
Impact/Purpose:
Manuscript outlining past, current, and future of a community of large-scale ecosystem restoration practitioners
Description:
In 2004, a group of large-scale ecosystem restoration practitioners across the United States convened to start the process of sharing restoration science, management, and best practices under the auspices of a traditional conference umbrella. This forum allowed scientists and decision makers to interact in a new type of setting, with science being presented from a perspective that informed ecosystem restoration decisions, and decision makers articulating their decision needs in a manner that informed the types of science questions that needed to be addressed. From that beginning, a core ecosystem restoration practitioner group has formed a community of practice that continues to build and maintain momentum for this type of ecosystem restoration engagement. In the fall of 2013, this community of practice became permanently organized as the Large-scale Ecosystem Restoration Section within the Society for Ecological Restoration. Over the past decade, this community has evaluated and expanded upon ecosystem restoration themes ranging from defining and measuring success, adaptive management, adaptive governance, and linking science with management decision-making. Current and future themes include novel ecosystems, ecosystem goods and services, urban ecosystem restoration, and climate change and ecosystem resilience.
