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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soil biogeochemistry; soil microbiology; plant-soil interactions; forest fires; mining; agriculture; climate change
Interests: functional plant ecology; ecophysiology; climate change; fire; drought
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The current rate of terrestrial ecosystems degradation is unprecedented. Thus, ecological restoration is a key tool for maintaining the structure and functionality of such ecosystems as well as for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals recognized by the United Nations Member States in 2015. In this line, the upcoming 2021–2030 decade has been declared the “Decade on Ecosystem Restoration,” which aims to prevent, halt, and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide.
Ecological restoration, including (re)afforestation and rehabilitation of degraded land, is included in the array of potential human adaptation responses to climate change. However, that changing climate itself brings important challenges in achieving a sustainable ecosystem restoration. In fact, the upcoming decades will be characterized by shifts in global and regional climate patterns, which potentially will alter the regime of disturbances as wildfires, floods, extreme drought events, and heat waves, among others. Moreover, the interactions among these and/or other disturbances might be likely to amplify the perturbation of the ecosystems and reduce their resilience. Thus, managing natural resources with the added stresses associated with climate change represent a critical challenge for ecological restoration.
The objectives of this Special Issue will be to improve our knowledge of different ecological restoration techniques and to bring together experiences on the recovery (natural or assisted by management practices) of soils and plants after disturbances, under a global change context. Thus, both natural (e.g., wildfires, droughts, heat waves, etc.) and human (e.g., mining activities, agriculture, overgrazing, etc.) disturbances might be included. This Special Issue invites contributions that report research, findings, and progress made through observational, experimental, theoretical, and applied studies, as well as syntheses and reviews. Their outputs will be very helpful in order to establish future guidelines for terrestrial ecosystems restoration.
Dr. M. Belén Hinojosa
Dr. Antonio Parra
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- plant community response
- plant ecophysiology response
- soil response
- ecosystem restoration
- ecosystem services
- resilience
- mitigation/adaptation techniques
- disturbance
- climate change