Ecosystem rehabilitation
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Definition of Ecosystem rehabilitation:
Interventions aimed at repairing important ecological functions of a degraded ecosystem and improving its capacity to provide habitats and ecosystem services, without necessarily aiming at full ecosystem recovery.
This is the common definition for Ecosystem rehabilitation, other definitions can be discussed in the article
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Key aims of rehabilitation are:
- improve the condition and long-term stability of habitats needed to sustain natural ecological communities;
- repair important ecosystem functions and improve the capacity of the ecosystem to provide habitats for biota and services for people.
References
- What is the difference between rehabilitation and restoration
- Society for Ecological Restoration AUSTRALASIA
- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre
- IUCN
