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"

DASS Database of Successional Seres

EDaSS European Database of Successional Seres

DASP Database
of seeded plots

DASP - DAtabase of Seeded Plots

In 2020, the Restoration Ecology Group started to put together a unique set of phytosociological relevés from different seeded sites in various regions of the Czech Republic. The Database of Seeded Plots (DaSP) currently contains data from regrassing of former arable land in White Carpathians, from sowing of flowering strips in České Budějovice and Jistebnice and from restoration of flowering meadows in Šumava mountains. Seed mixtures of native species, primarily regional seed mixtures, were used for sowing of the sites. The database will be continuously enlarged not only with data from yearly monitoring of already included plots but also with new localities. Scientific papers based on these data will also be gradually published.

Database administrator: Lenka Šebelíková (lenuskasch@gmail.com)