Abstract
Stefanes, M., J. M. Ochoa Quintero, F. de Oliveira Roque, L. S. Moreira Sugai, L. Reverberi Tambosi, R. Lourival, and S. Laurance. 2016. Incorporating resilience and cost in ecological restoration strategies at landscape scale. Ecology and Society 21(4):54. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08922-210454
Highlights
Landscape conversion is the main cause of natural habitat loss across the world
Our results show that increasing the restoration target from minimal legal compliance (MLC) (25%) to selection by ecological resilience (SER) (30%) means moving from 968,316 to 1592 million hectares, which can represent a huge opportunity cost for agricultural lands
Scenario outcomes In the visual exploration of the trade-off analysis (Fig. 4), we outlined the tendency of lower restoration cost in planning units (PU) with higher landscape resilience
Summary
Landscape conversion is the main cause of natural habitat loss across the world. Recent estimates show that 70% of the grassland, 50% of the savanna, 45% of the temperate deciduous forest, and 27% of the tropical forest biome have already been cleared or converted into agricultural lands (Foley et al 2011). The ecological restoration of deforested or degraded areas can contribute enormously to biodiversity conservation and global stability and resilience, given the current and projected impacts of climate change (Steffen et al 2015). Tropical regions have the largest need for restoration efforts, almost twice the area required in temperate regions (Minnemeyer et al 2011). Restoration actions were decided in terms of urgency or specific demands at local scales, called the “gardening approach” (Metzger and Brancalion 2013). Landscape ecology frameworks have emerged to guide decisions at large scales, including important aspects of habitat connectivity and ecosystem functionality (e.g., Jackson and Hobbs 2009, Metzger and Brancalion 2013). In a recent global meta-analysis on the ecological drivers of forest restoration success, Crouzeilles et al
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