Abstract
Ecosystem is the most complete basic structure and functional unit for the research of ecology and other branches, so ecosystem restoration is the basis of different levels of ecological restoration research, and the research and practice of ecological restoration should take ecosystem as the basic object. The theme for the International Conference of Restoration Ecology in 2003 was “understand and restore ecosystem”, which indicated the basic significance of ecosystem restoration. There are many types of ecosystems, including forest, grassland, desert, ocean, lake and river. They are not only different in appearance, but also composed with separately unique biotic components. For different ecosystem types, the theory and methods of recovery and reconstruction are different. In the first three sections of this chapter, we discussed the ecological restoration for degraded forest ecosystem, grassland ecosystem , and wetland ecosystem. The fourth section described protection and restoration of sandland ecosystem. In the restoration research of each ecosystem type, the chapter emphasized the degradation actuality of different ecosystems, its reasons, corresponding restoration ways, and benefits and evaluation . There have been great achievements have been made in the ecosystem restoration research field in China, and some have reached the advanced international level. The authors of all sections are experts, who have spent years researching the ecosystem restoration, thus whether their discourses were based on themselves research, or their articles integrated peer research nationwide, they summarized the front research which reflected the overall level of this field in current in China.
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Peng, S. et al. (2015). Restoration of Degraded Ecosystem. In: Li, W. (eds) Contemporary Ecology Research in China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48376-3_10
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