Restoration Ecology

Article	Citations
Functional traits and ecosystem services in ecological restoration	122
Priority effects and ecological restoration	96
The present and future of grassland restoration	95
Grasslands and savannahs in the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration	73
The intervention continuum in restoration ecology: rethinking the active–passive dichotomy	61
Barriers to ecological restoration in Europe: expert perspectives	56
Precision restoration: a necessary approach to foster forest recovery in the 21st century	55
A research agenda for the restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas	54
Six priorities to advance the science and practice of coral reef restoration worldwide	51
An Australian blue carbon method to estimate climate change mitigation benefits of coastal wetland restoration	49
International principles and standards for the ecological restoration and recovery of mine sites	49
Prediction and uncertainty in restoration science	45
Restoration of mine degraded land for sustainable environmental development	39
Traditional ecological knowledge in restoration ecology: a call to listen deeply, to engage with, and respect Indigenous voices	39
Urgent need for updating the slogan of global climate actions from “tree planting” to “restore native vegetation”	36
Need of transdisciplinary research for accelerating land restoration during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration	36
Ecological countermeasures for preventing zoonotic disease outbreaks: when ecological restoration is a human health imperative	35
Ten people‐centered rules for socially sustainable ecosystem restoration	33
Equity in ecosystem restoration	32
Reflecting on twenty years of forest landscape restoration	32
Improving restoration success through a precision restoration framework	31
Forest landscape restoration: building on the past for future success	30
Marine ecosystem restoration in a changing ocean	30
Applying systematic conservation planning to improve the allocation of restoration actions at multiple spatial scales	29
The reduction of harmful algae on Caribbean coral reefs through the reintroduction of a keystone herbivore, the long‐spined sea urchin Diadema antillarum	29

Differential survival of nursery‐reared Acropora cervicornis outplants along the Florida reef tract	29
Super‐abundant C4 grasses are a mixed blessing in restored prairies	28
Walking on two legs: a pathway of Indigenous restoration and reconciliation in fire‐adapted landscapes	25
A standard framework for assessing the costs and benefits of restoration: introducing The Economics of Ecosystem Restoration	25
Ecosystem restoration: challenges and opportunities for India	25
Restoration, reclamation, and rehabilitation: on the need for, and positing a definition of, ecological reclamation	23
Applying coral breeding to reef restoration: best practices, knowledge gaps, and priority actions in a rapidly‐evolving field	21
Using the past to manage the future: the role of palaeoecological and long‐term data in ecological restoration	21
Restoring coal mine degraded lands in India for achieving the United Nations‐Sustainable Development Goals	21
Factors influencing seed mix design for prairie restoration	21
Ecological succession in areas degraded by bauxite mining indicates successful use of topsoil	21
Natural capital approaches: shifting the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration from aspiration to reality	21
Herbicide protection pod technology for native plant restoration: one size may not fit all	20
Sharing knowledge to improve ecological restoration outcomes	19
Stimulating post‐COVID‐19 green recovery by investing in ecological restoration	19
Restoration ecophysiology: an ecophysiological approach to improve restoration strategies and outcomes in severely disturbed landscapes	19
Seed‐enhancement combinations improve germination and handling in two dominant native grass species	19
Community‐led peatland restoration in Southeast Asia: 5Rs approach	19
The climate benefits of topsoil removal and Sphagnum introduction in raised bog restoration	18
Restoration of Cymodocea nodosa seagrass meadows: efficiency and ecological implications	18
Promoting social and environmental justice to support Indigenous partnerships in urban ecosystem restoration	18
Determinants of vegetation regeneration on forest roads following restoration treatments: implications for boreal caribou conservation	18
Do nest boxes breed the target species or its competitors? A case study of a critically endangered bird	18
Seed quality and the true price of native seed for mine site restoration	18
Conserving shellfish reefs—a systematic review reveals the need to broaden research efforts	17
Four reasons why functional traits are not being used in restoration practice	17
Key gaps in soil monitoring during forest restoration in Colombia	17
Land‐use legacies limit the effectiveness of switches in disturbance type to restore endangered grasslands	17
Attraction versus production in restoration: spatial and habitat effects of shellfish reefs for fish in coastal seascapes	17
Nutrient‐use strategy and not competition determines native and invasive species response to changes in soil nutrient availability	16
Food web models reveal potential ecosystem effects of seagrass recovery in the northern Wadden Sea	16
The value of local ecological knowledge to guide tree species selection in tropical dry forest restoration	16
Forest restoration is more than firing seeds from a drone	15
Seeding or planting to revegetate the world's degraded land: systematic review and experimentation to address methodological issues	15
Restoring for the climate: a review of coastal wetland restoration research in the last 30 years	15
Fire versus grazing as tools to restore serpentine grasslands under global change	15
Integrating genomics in population models to forecast translocation success	15
How effective is direct seeding to restore the functional composition of neotropical savannas?	14
Social–ecological management results in sustained recovery of an imperiled salmon population	14
Settlement yields in large‐scale in situ culture of Caribbean coral larvae for restoration	14
Seed bank offers potential for active restoration of mountain meadows	14
Australian native seed sector characteristics and perceptions indicate low capacity for upscaled ecological restoration: insights from the Australian Native Seed Report	14
Measuring at all scales: sourcing data for more flexible restoration references	14
A new perspective and approach to ecosystem restoration: a seed enhancement technology guide and case study	14
Long‐term effects of rewilding on species composition: 22 years of raptor monitoring in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone	14
Riparian vegetation shade restoration and loss effects on recent and future stream temperatures	14
Post‐pandemic recovery through landscape restoration	14
Selective herbicide control: using furrows and carbon seed coatings to establish a native bunchgrass while reducing cheatgrass cover	13
Ecosystem state assessment after more than 100 years since planting for dune consolidation	13
Considering the use of subadult and juvenile mussels for mussel reef restoration	13

Gender inclusion in ecological restoration	13
Restoration seedbanks for mined land restoration	13
Deploying microbes as drivers and indicators in ecological restoration	13
Does the road to land degradation neutrality in India is paved with restoration science?	13
Removal or utilization? Testing alternative approaches to the management of an invasive woody legume in an arid Indian grassland	13
Differences in stakeholder perceptions about native forest: implications for developing a restoration program	13
Nativeness is not binary—a graduated terminology for native and non‐native species in the Anthropocene	13
Intense mowing management suppresses invader, but shifts competitive resistance by a native to facilitation	13
The need for holistic approach in the identification of priority areas to restore: a review	13
Planting, seeding, and sediment impact restoration success following dam removal	13
Removal of macroalgae from degraded reefs enhances coral recruitment	12
Does revegetation cause soil microbiota recovery? Evidence from revisiting a revegetation chronosequence 6 years after initial sampling	12
Zooplankton functional diversity as an indicator of a long‐term aquatic restoration in an Amazonian lake	12
Incorporating facilitative interactions into small‐scale eelgrass restoration—challenges and opportunities	12
The sound of restored soil: using ecoacoustics to measure soil biodiversity in a temperate forest restoration context	12
How to increase the supply of native seed to improve restoration success: the US native seed development process	12
Performance of innovative materials as recruitment substrates for coral restoration	12
Introduction of giant tortoises as a replacement “ecosystem engineer” to facilitate restoration of Santa Fe Island, Galapagos	12
Leveraging the value of conservation physiology for ecological restoration	12
Potential benefits to breeding seabirds of converting abandoned coconut plantations to native habitats after invasive predator eradication	11
Outplanting optimized: developing a more efficient coral attachment technique using Portland cement	11
Capacity for change: three core attributes of adaptive capacity that bolster restoration efficacy	11
Salt marsh climate change adaptation: Using runnels to adapt to accelerating sea level rise within a drowning New England salt marsh	11
Monitoring ecological characteristics of a tallgrass prairie using an unmanned aerial vehicle	11
Recovering Australia's arid‐zone ecosystems: learning from continental‐scale rabbit control experiments	11
Restoration of southern hemisphere beech (Nothofagaceae) forests: a meta‐analysis	11
The effectiveness of using targeted grazing for vegetation management: a meta‐analysis	11
A framework for measuring the effects of disturbance in restoration projects	11
Prioritizing dams for removal to advance restoration and conservation efforts in the western United States	11
Assessing mangrove restoration practices using species‐interaction networks	11
From the ground up: prioritizing soil at the forefront of ecological restoration	11
Practitioner views on the determinants of tropical forest restoration longevity	11
Floral resource selection by wild bees and honey bees in the Midwest United States: implications for designing pollinator habitat	11
Invasive weed‐based biochar facilitated the restoration of coal mine degraded land by modulating the enzyme activity and carbon sequestration	11
Ecological restoration success from community and agency perspectives: exploring the differences	11
Mapping the information landscape of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration Strategy	10
Trends and knowledge gaps on ecological restoration research in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	10
Establishing new grasslands on crop fields: short‐term development of plant and arthropod communities	10
Assessing the efficacy of extruded seed pellets and microbial amendments for native revegetation	10
How participation in ecological restoration can foster a connection to nature	10
Long‐term restoration altered edaphic properties and soil microbial communities in forests: evidence from four plantations of southern China	10
Variation in prescribed fire and bison grazing supports multiple bee nesting groups in tallgrass prairie	10
Livelihood security policy can support ecosystem restoration	10
Biotic and abiotic treatments as a bet‐hedging approach to restoring plant communities and soil functions	10
Functional trajectory for the assessment of ecological restoration success	10
A successful method of transplanting adult Ecklonia radiata kelp, and relevance to other habitat‐forming macroalgae	10
Experimental evolution of the coral algal endosymbiont, Cladocopium goreaui: lessons learnt across a decade of stress experiments to enhance coral heat tolerance	10
Forest restoration by direct seeding: a global bibliometric analysis	10
Forbs included in conservation seed mixes exhibit variable blooming detection rates and cost‐effectiveness: implications for pollinator habitat design	10
Macrozoobenthic community assemblage as key indicator for mangrove restoration success in North Sumatra and Aceh, Indonesia	10
Genetic and mating system assessment of translocation success of the long‐lived perennial shrub Lambertia orbifolia (Proteaceae)	10
Inoculum origin and soil legacy can shape plant–soil feedback outcomes for tropical grassland restoration	10
Optimizing seed injection as a seagrass restoration method	10
A recruitment niche framework for improving seed‐based restoration	10
Understanding anthropogenic impacts on zoogeochemistry is essential for ecological restoration	10
Patterns and drivers of structure, diversity, and composition in species‐rich shrublands restored after mining	9
Bird functional diversity in restored and secondary forests of the Colombian Andes	9
Repeatability of the searching process in reviews of restoration outcomes	9
How much does is cost to restore a grassland?	9
Inoculation with native soil improves seedling survival and reduces non‐native reinvasion in a grassland restoration	9
Identifying effective tree planting schemes to restore forest carbon and biodiversity in Shiretoko National Park, Japan	9
Restoration of retired agricultural land to wetland mitigates greenhouse gas emissions	9
Aquatic invertebrate assemblages as potential indicators of restoration conditions in wetlands of Northeastern China	9
Biocultural restoration improves delivery of ecosystem services in social‐ecological landscapes	9
Small mammal responses to wetland restoration in the Greater Everglades ecosystem	9
UNDecade on Ecosystem Restoration: key considerations for Africa	9
Priority areas for restoring ecosystem services to enhance human well‐being in a dry forest	9
Post‐fire restoration with contour‐felled log debris increases early recruitment of Spanish black pine (Pinus nigra Arn. ssp. salzmannii) in Mediterranean forests	9
Exploring the performance of mid‐water lagoon nurseries for coral restoration in the Maldives	9
Nitrate reduction capacity is limited by belowground plant recovery in a 32‐year‐old created salt marsh	9
Active restoration leads to rapid recovery of aboveground biomass but limited recovery of fish diversity in planted mangrove forests of the North Brazil Shelf	9
Plant recruitment in drylands varies by site, year, and seeding technique	9
The effects of site preparation equal those of seeding at a dryland restoration site: 6 years of plant community development	9
The acceptable range of variation within the desirable stable state as a measure of restoration success	9
A guide to minimize contamination issues in microbiome restoration studies	9
Impacts of remotely sensed environmental drivers on coral outplant survival	9
The resistance and short‐term resilience of a restored extracted peatland ecosystems post‐fire: an opportunistic study after a wildfire	9
Genetic rescue reduces mate limitation in a threatened, clonal, and self‐incompatible plant species	9
A new in situ method showed greater persistence of added soil organic matter in natural than restored wetlands	9
Evaluating biological properties of topsoil for post‐mining ecological restoration: different assessment methods give different results	8

Integrating evolutionary potential and ecological function into agricultural seed production to meet demands for the decade of restoration	8
Ecosystem restoration in India during the United Nations decade on ecosystem restoration: the way forward	8
Are large census‐sized populations always the best sources for plant translocations?	8
Activated carbon seed technologies provide some protection to seedlings from the effects of post‐emergent herbicides	8
Australian native seed sector practice and behavior could limit ecological restoration success: further insights from the Australian Native Seed Report	8
Direct seeding to restore tropical seasonal forests: effects of green manure and hydrogel amendment on tree species performances and weed infestation	8
Rehabilitation of Mediterranean animal forests using gorgonians from fisheries by‐catch	8
Seed positioning in extruded pellets: does it matter?	8
Alpine restoration: planting and seeding of native species facilitate vegetation recovery	8
Nitrogen limitation reduces the performance of target plant species in restored meadows	8
Environmental and anthropogenic factors affecting natural regeneration of degraded dry Afromontane forest	8
Effects of chronic and acute stressors on transplanted black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) seedlings along an eroding Louisiana shoreline	8
Investigating transplantation as a mechanism for seagrass restoration in South Africa	8
Fish and crustaceans provide early indicators of success in wetland restoration	8
Similarity analyses in restoration ecology and how to improve their utility	8
Ecological impacts of coral gardening outplanting in the Maldives	8
Upscaling ecological restoration: toward a new legal principle and protocol on ecological restoration in international law	8
Site mediates performance in a coral‐seeding trial	8
Influence of abiotic drivers on 1‐year seedling survival of six mangrove species in Southeast Asia	8
Knowledge exchange enhances engagement in ecological restoration and rehabilitation initiatives	8
Planting techniques and abiotic variation at two salt marsh restoration sites in the Bay of Fundy	8
A comparison of plant communities in restored, old field, and remnant coastal prairies	8
Community‐level assisted migration for climate‐appropriate prairie restoration	8
Restoration perceptions and collaboration challenges under severe water scarcity: the Aculeo Lake process	8
Prioritize grassland restoration to bend the curve of biodiversity loss	8
A dynamic modeling tool to anticipate the effectiveness of invasive plant control and restoration recovery trajectories in South African fynbos	8
Reference site selection protocols for mine site ecosystem restoration	8
The Dilemma of Scale: competing imperatives for global restoration	7
The potential role of biotic interactions in stream restoration	7
Functional traits are used in restoration practice: a response to Merchant et al. (2022)	7
Adaptive management of large‐scale ecosystem restoration: increasing certainty of habitat outcomes in the Columbia River Estuary, U.S.A.	7
Restoration of subtropical grasslands degraded by non‐native pine plantations: effects of litter removal and hay transfer	7
Utilization of modified and artificial nests by endemic and introduced parrots on Norfolk Island	7
Control of invasive Phragmites australis (European common reed) alters macroinvertebrate communities	7
Canopy cover and ecological restoration increase natural regeneration of rainforest trees in the Western Ghats, India	7
Establishment of wildflower strips in a wide range of environments: a lesson from a landscape‐scale project	7
Indigenous environmental justice through coproduction of mining restoration supply chains in Australia	7
Predicting optimal habitats of Haloxylon persicum for ecosystem restoration using ensemble ecological niche modeling under climate change in southeast Iran	7
Granivorous ants prefer small and unprotected seeds—implications for restoration in arid ecosystems	7
Can locally sourced inoculum and biochar synergistically improve the establishment of mycorrhizal fungi in mine tailings?	7
The efficiency and effectiveness of different sea urchin removal methods for kelp forest restoration	7
Factors limiting the availability of native seed for reconstructing Minnesota's prairies: stakeholder perspectives	7
Optimizing the initial cultivation stages of kelp Ecklonia radiata for restoration	7
The benefits of mountain woodland restoration	7
Plains rough fescue grassland restoration using natural regeneration after pipeline disturbances	7
Effects of woody debris and cover soil types on soil properties and vegetation 4–5 years after oil sands reclamation	7
Using genetic data to advance stream fish reintroduction science: a case study in brook trout	7
Succession of submerged vegetation in a hydrologically reclaimed opencast mine during first 10 years	7
Identifying effective restoration approaches to maximize plant establishment in California grasslands through ameta‐analysis	7
Cost‐effectiveness of water‐saving technologies for restoration of tropical dry forest: a case study from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador	7
Measuring the social changes from river restoration and dam removal	7
Variation in overall fitness due to seed source: projections for predictive provenancing	7
The ecosystem resilience approach to control the invasive alien species Australian swamp stonecrop (Crassula helmsii)	7
Innovative tidal control successfully promotes saltmarsh restoration	7
Ecosystem carbon exchange and nitrogen removal rates in two 33‐year‐old constructed salt marshes are similar to those in a nearby natural marsh	7
Hidden variation: cultivars and wild plants differ in trait variation with surprising root trait outcomes	7
Public participation in decision‐making on conservation translocations: the importance and limitations of a legislative framework	7
Post‐release dispersal and breeding site suitability of reintroduced populations of the Crested Ibis in Shaanxi Province, China	7
Inclusive restoration: ten recommendations to supportLGBTQ+ researchers in restoration science	7
Response of soil aggregate stability and erodibility to different treatments on typical steppe in the Loess Plateau, China	7
Soil mutualisms potentially determine the reintroduction outcome of an endangered legume	7
Short‐term effects of a large dam decommissioning on biofilm structure and functioning	7
Investigating natural attenuation of PAHs by soil microbial communities: insights by a machine learning approach	7
Soil fauna and its potential use in the ecological restoration of dryland ecosystems	7
Seismic line edge effects on plants, lichens and their environmental conditions in boreal peatlands of Northwest Alberta (Canada)	7
Seed dispersal by frugivores from forest remnants promotes the regeneration of adjacent invaded forests in an oceanic island	6
Applying ecosystem accounting to develop a risk register for peatlands and inform restoration targets at catchment scale: a case study from the European region	6
Seed sourcing in the genomics era: multispecies provenance delineation for current and future climates	6
Does active plant restoration passively restore native fauna community structure and function?	6
Operationalizing process‐based restoration for terrestrial communities	6
Effects of fire seasonality and intensity on resprouting woody plants in prairie‐forest communities	6
Genetic variation and structure change when producing and using mixed‐source seed lots for restoration	6
Identification of restoration species for early roadcut slope regeneration using functional group approach	6
Restored marginal farmland benefits arthropod diversity at multiple scales	6
Ground cover and native ant predation influence survival of metamorphic amphibians in a southeastern pine savanna undergoing restoration	6
Role of soil biota in grassland restorations in high nutrient soils	6
Grassland conservation and restoration in India: a governance crisis	6
Revegetation in Japan overlooks geographical genetic structure of native Artemisia indica var. maximowiczii populations	6
Survival and sexual maturity of sexually propagated Acropora verweyi corals 4 years after outplantation	6
Primarily neutral effects of river restoration on macroinvertebrates, macrophytes, and fishes after a decade of monitoring	6
Unexplored freshwater communities in post‐mining ponds: effect of different restoration approaches	6
Seed‐ versus transplant‐based eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) restoration success in a temperate marine lake	6
Soil health indicators for monitoring forest ecological restoration: a critical review	6
Planting time, first‐year mowing, and seed mix design influence ecological outcomes in agroecosystem revegetation projects	6
Rapid faunal colonization and recovery of biodiversity and functional diversity following eelgrass restoration	6
Learning to live with reintroduced species: beaver management groups are an adaptive process	6
Measuring and monitoring restored ecosystems: can remote sensing be applied to the ecological recovery wheel to inform restoration success?	6
Effects of insect herbivory on seedling mortality in restored and remnant tropical forest	6
Soil DNA chronosequence analysis shows bacterial community re‐assembly following post‐mining forest rehabilitation	6
The importance of stock selection for improving transplantation efficiency	6
Simple indicators are good proxies for ecological complexity when assessing Atlantic Forest restoration success	6
Patterning ecological restoration after weeds	6
Effects of prescribed grazing by goats on non‐native invasive shrubs and native plant species in a mixed‐hardwood forest	6
Restoration benefits of soil nutrient manipulation and weeding in invaded dry and wet tropical ecosystems in Hawaiʻi	6
Beetle assemblage dynamics after invasive ice plant (Carpobrotus) removal on a small Mediterranean island	6