What is Restoration Ecology?

Restoration Ecology addresses the question how to repair various human-disturbed sites. It provides a scientific basis for practical ecological restoration and promotes, among others, the use of spontaneous or reasonably managed succession in the greatest possible extent without using traditional methods of technical reclamation.

Restoration Ecology Group

"Promotion of spontaneous or reasonably
controlled succession in order to restore disturbed sites"

Further extension of the Database of Successional Series

Published on Jun 24, 2023

We successfully continue with completing of our Database of Successional Series to extend it to the European scale (EDaSS). After lava flows in Iceland, we also documented two successional series in Wales, UK - limestone quarries and coal spoil heaps. The series covered the very beginning of succession to advanced stages.