1. The long-term restoration of ecosystem complexity
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Asun Rodríguez-Uña, Antton Alberdi, David Moreno-Mateos, Elly Morriën, Daniel Montoya, Wim H. van der Putten, Terrestrial Ecology (TE), Harvard University [Cambridge], Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Basque Foundation for Science (Ikerbasque), IT University of Copenhagen, University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] (UvA), Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), Station d'écologie théorique et expérimentale (SETE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), and Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Metacommunity ,Restoration ecology ,Computer science ,Biodiversity ,Genomics ,Adaptive potential ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,Ecosystem degradation ,Interaction network ,Life Science ,Ecosystem ,Laboratorium voor Nematologie ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Ecology ,business.industry ,Environmental resource management ,Plan_S-Compliant_NO ,15. Life on land ,PE&RC ,030104 developmental biology ,13. Climate action ,International ,Conservation genomics ,[SDE]Environmental Sciences ,EPS ,Laboratory of Nematology ,business - Abstract
International audience; Multiple large-scale restoration strategies are emerging globally to counteract ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss. However, restoration often remains insufficient to offset that loss. To address this challenge, we propose to focus restoration science on the long-term (centuries to millennia) re-assembly of degraded ecosystem complexity integrating interaction network and evolutionary potential approaches. This approach provides insights into eco-evolutionary feedbacks determining the structure, functioning and stability of recovering ecosystems. Eco-evolutionary feedbacks may help to understand changes in the adaptive potential after disturbance of metacommunity hub species with core structural and functional roles for their use in restoration. Those changes can be studied combining a restoration genomics approach based on whole-genome sequencing with replicated space-for-time substitutions linking changes in genetic variation to functions or traits relevant to the establishment of evolutionarily resilient communities. This approach may set the knowledge basis for future tools to accelerate the restoration of ecosystems able to adapt to ongoing global changes.
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- 2020