Authors: Ricardo D Lopez
Publish Date: 2009/02/25
Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 579-580
Abstract
Broadscale ecosystem restoration efforts involve a very complex set of ecological and societal components and the success of any ecosystem restoration project rests on an integrated approach to implementation Editors Mary Doyle and Cynthia Drew have successfully synthesized many of these factors in their comprehensive volume entitled LargeScale Ecosystem Restoration Five Case Studies from the United States which is part of The Society for Ecological Restoration International’s series The Science and Practice of Ecological RestorationThe five case studies span the United States detailing restoration efforts within the Chesapeake Bay Everglades San Francisco BaySacramentoSan Joaquin Delta Platte River Basin and Upper Mississippi River Basin The depth of the natural ecological and political history in each area is detailed well and has been compressed into this very well organized treatise Among the multiple authors of the five case studies are some of the key leaders
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