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Habitat restoration requires landscape‐scale planning
Author(s) -
Helm Aveliina
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
applied vegetation science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.096
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1654-109X
pISSN - 1402-2001
DOI - 10.1111/avsc.12159
Subject(s) - metapopulation , habitat , restoration ecology , context (archaeology) , ecology , scale (ratio) , biota , geography , environmental resource management , landscape ecology , environmental science , biology , biological dispersal , cartography , population , archaeology , demography , sociology
Habitat restoration cannot be considered simply as an act of re‐creating the original environmental conditions and biota, neglecting the significance of the context of the surrounding landscape and overlooking the need to recreate metapopulation dynamics for target species. In this issue, Prach et al. show the importance of the availability of target species in the surrounding landscape to achieve successful restoration.