Conclusion
The extent of human-induced change and damage to Earth’s ecosystems renders ecosystem repair an essential part of our future survival strategy, and this demands that restoration ecology provide effective conceptual and practical tools for this task. … If restoration ecology is to be successfully practiced as part of humanity’s response to continued ecosystem change and degradation, restoration ecologists need to rise to the challenges of meshing science, practice and policy. Restoration ecology is likely to be one of the most important fields of the coming century.
—R. J. Hobbs and J. A. Harris, “Restoration Ecology: Repairing the Earth’s Ecosystems in the New Millennium,” Restoration Ecology, June 2001
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