Soil Health to Enhance Ecological Restoration and Conservation
ABSTRACT Ecological restoration has gained increased attention to combat the global biodiversity and habitat loss driven by human activities and climate change. To address these impacts, restoration efforts apply interventions aimed at recovering native ecosystems on degraded lands. However, they te...
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| description | ABSTRACT Ecological restoration has gained increased attention to combat the global biodiversity and habitat loss driven by human activities and climate change. To address these impacts, restoration efforts apply interventions aimed at recovering native ecosystems on degraded lands. However, they tend to centre on vegetation‐based interventions, with limited attention to aboveground and belowground linkages. Soil health, including its physicochemical, biological and functional attributes, is fundamental to ecosystem resilience and sustainability, provision of services, and human well‐being. This synthesis explores how a deeper understanding of soil‐vegetation interactions can support restoration and conservation efforts. We discuss how restoration interventions can be applied from early to later stages of restoration, future directions and novel approaches that target aboveground and belowground processes to promote soil health and successful plant community establishment. We propose that integrating practices that explicitly consider linkages among vegetation, soil properties and biota can lead to more effective restoration outcomes and the establishment of resilient, self‐sustaining ecosystems. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b0b890f9af074105bb95e0cf30c2824d2025-08-20T02:51:10ZengWileyJournal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment2767-035X2024-10-0134n/an/a10.1002/sae2.70022Soil Health to Enhance Ecological Restoration and ConservationPaola Raupp0Yolima Carrillo1Uffe N. Nielsen2Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University Penrith New South Wales AustraliaHawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University Penrith New South Wales AustraliaHawkesbury Institute for the Environment Western Sydney University Penrith New South Wales AustraliaABSTRACT Ecological restoration has gained increased attention to combat the global biodiversity and habitat loss driven by human activities and climate change. To address these impacts, restoration efforts apply interventions aimed at recovering native ecosystems on degraded lands. However, they tend to centre on vegetation‐based interventions, with limited attention to aboveground and belowground linkages. Soil health, including its physicochemical, biological and functional attributes, is fundamental to ecosystem resilience and sustainability, provision of services, and human well‐being. This synthesis explores how a deeper understanding of soil‐vegetation interactions can support restoration and conservation efforts. We discuss how restoration interventions can be applied from early to later stages of restoration, future directions and novel approaches that target aboveground and belowground processes to promote soil health and successful plant community establishment. We propose that integrating practices that explicitly consider linkages among vegetation, soil properties and biota can lead to more effective restoration outcomes and the establishment of resilient, self‐sustaining ecosystems.https://doi.org/10.1002/sae2.70022aboveground‐belowground linkagesfunctional attributesinvertebratesland degradationrestoration interventionssoil microbes |
| spellingShingle | Paola Raupp Yolima Carrillo Uffe N. Nielsen Soil Health to Enhance Ecological Restoration and Conservation Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment aboveground‐belowground linkages functional attributes invertebrates land degradation restoration interventions soil microbes |
| title | Soil Health to Enhance Ecological Restoration and Conservation |
| title_full | Soil Health to Enhance Ecological Restoration and Conservation |
| title_fullStr | Soil Health to Enhance Ecological Restoration and Conservation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Soil Health to Enhance Ecological Restoration and Conservation |
| title_short | Soil Health to Enhance Ecological Restoration and Conservation |
| title_sort | soil health to enhance ecological restoration and conservation |
| topic | aboveground‐belowground linkages functional attributes invertebrates land degradation restoration interventions soil microbes |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/sae2.70022 |
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