A5022207975- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
Fudan University
2023
Restoring vegetation in degraded ecosystems is an increasingly common practice for promoting biodiversity and ecological function, but successful implementation hampered by incomplete understanding of the processes that limit restoration success. By synthesizing terrestrial aquatic studies globally (2594 experimental tests from 610 articles), we reveal substantial herbivore control under restoration. Herbivores at sites reduced abundance more strongly (by 89%, on average) than those...
Abstract Ecosystem restoration has traditionally focused on re-establishing vegetation and other foundation species at basal trophic levels, with mixed outcomes. Here, we show that threatened shorebirds could be important to restoring coastal wetland multifunctionality. We carried out surveys manipulative field experiments in a region along the Yellow Sea affected by invasive cordgrass Spartina alterniflora . found planting native plants alone failed restore multifunctionality experiment....