Restoring Resilient Ecosystems (RestREco)

There is a global biodiversity crisis driven by mounting pressures, including land degradation and climate change, and one approach to reverse this trend is ecological restoration. However, using specific natural and semi-natural ecosystems to define endpoints is increasingly difficult as 'pristine-native' states are hard to define, climate change is leading to a shifting baseline, and there is a need to restore ecosystems that are resilient to future pressures. We intend to move restoration science forward, by considering complexity and resilience as fundamental aims for restoration projects, rather than attempting to re-create specific target ecosystems.