Terrestrial ecosystem restoration increases biodiversity and reduces its variability, but not to reference levels: A global meta‐analysis

Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology: a PRISMA extension

(2021) Rose E. O'Dea et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Beyond the green: Assessing quarry restoration success through plant and beetle communities

(2020) Teresa Mexia et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

How feasible are global forest restoration commitments?

(2020) Matthew E. Fagan et al.   Conservation Letters

Lasting signature of planting year weather on restored grasslands

(2020) Anna M. Groves et al.   Scientific Reports

Revisiting and expanding the meta‐analysis of variation: The log coefficient of variation ratio, lnCVR

(2020) Alistair M. Senior et al.   Research Synthesis Methods

Illustrating the importance of meta‐analysing variances alongside means in ecology and evolution

(2020) Alfredo Sánchez‐Tójar et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Grassland restorations improve pollinator communities: a meta-analysis

(2020) Aaron N. Sexton et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

‘Active’ and ‘passive’ ecological restoration strategies in meta‐analysis

(2020) Joe Atkinson et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Non-linear changes in modelled terrestrial ecosystems subjected to perturbations

(2020) Tim Newbold et al.   Scientific Reports

Implications of scale dependence for cross‐study syntheses of biodiversity differences

(2020) Rebecca Spake et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Recovery of species richness lags behind functional recovery in restored grasslands

(2019) Csaba Tölgyesi et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Community-weighted mean traits play crucial roles in driving ecosystem functioning along long-term grassland restoration gradient on the Loess Plateau of China

(2019) Guanghua Jing et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Remnant woodland biodiversity gains under 10 years of revealed‐price incentive payments

(2019) Anthelia J. Bond et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Does topsoil removal in grassland restoration benefit both soil nematode and plant communities?

(2019) Monika Carol Resch et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Positive trends in plant, dragonfly, and butterfly diversity of rewetted montane peatlands

(2019) Katharina Strobl et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Human disturbance affects enzyme activity, microbial biomass and organic carbon in tropical dry sub-humid pasture and forest soils

(2019) Jamilly Alves De Barros et al.   Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science

International principles and standards for the practice of ecological restoration. Second edition

(2019) George D. Gann et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Ecological restoration increases conservation of taxonomic and functional beta diversity of woody plants in a tropical fragmented landscape

(2019) Débora Cristina Rother et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Active rehabilitation of Amazonian sand mines converges soils, plant communities and environmental status to their predisturbance levels

(2019) Markus Gastauer et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Taxonomic and functional facets of the resilience to management of mown subalpine grasslands

(2018) Iris Lochon et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

High-throughput eDNA monitoring of fungi to track functional recovery in ecological restoration

(2018) DongFeng Yan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Ecological outcomes for multiple taxa from silvicultural thinning of regrowth forest

(2018) Leroy Gonsalves et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Orthoptera prove good indicators of grassland rehabilitation success in the first French Natural Asset Reserve

(2018) Jean-François Alignan et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Restoration and repair of Earth's damaged ecosystems

(2018) Holly P. Jones et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spider community responses to grassland restoration: balancing trade-offs between abundance and diversity

(2018) Lauren A. Smith DiCarlo et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Bee community responses to a gradient of oak savanna restoration practices

(2018) Mitchell C. Lettow et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Natural revegetation of a semiarid habitat alters taxonomic and functional diversity of soil microbial communities

(2018) Yanqing Guo et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Assessment of the Ecosystem Service Function of Sandy Lands at Different Times Following Aerial Seeding of an Endemic Species

(2018) Lei Zhang et al.   Sustainability

Positive site selection bias in meta-analyses comparing natural regeneration to active forest restoration

(2018) J. Leighton Reid et al.   Science Advances

Topsoil application during the rehabilitation of a manganese tailing dam increases plant taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity

(2018) Rafael Almeida Ribeiro et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Incomplete Recovery of Plant Diversity in Restored Prairie Wetlands on Agricultural Landscapes

(2018) Saloni Salaria et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Three years of vegetation development worth 30 years of secondary succession in urban-industrial grassland restoration

(2018) Anna Kövendi-Jakó et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Legacy effects of afforestation on prairie plant and seed bank communities in a northern Canadian prairie

(2018) Victory Coffey et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Legacies of afforestation on soil nematode community composition, structure, and diversity in a northern Canadian prairie

(2018) Victory Coffey et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Reproducible, flexible and high-throughput data extraction from primary literature: The metaDigitise r package

(2018) Joel L. Pick et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

How is biodiversity changing in response to ecological restoration in terrestrial ecosystems? A meta-analysis in China

(2018) Chunbo Huang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Reintroduced mowing can counteract biodiversity loss in abandoned meadows

(2017) Anders Lundberg et al.   Erdkunde

Dynamics of herbaceous vegetation during four years of experimental coppice introduction

(2017) Radim Hédl et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Interpreting variation to advance predictive restoration science

(2017) Lars A. Brudvig et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Restored tallgrass prairies have reduced phylogenetic diversity compared with remnants

(2017) Rebecca S. Barak et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Invasive plant removal: assessing community impact and recovery from invasion

(2017) Anaclara Guido et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The hierarchy of predictability in ecological restoration: are vegetation structure and functional diversity more predictable than community composition?

(2017) Daniel C. Laughlin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Nonindependence and sensitivity analyses in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses

(2017) Daniel W.A. Noble et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Wild bee community change over a 26-year chronosequence of restored tallgrass prairie

(2017) Sean R. Griffin et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Recovery of mammal diversity in tropical forests: a functional approach to measuring restoration

(2017) Mia A. Derhé et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Responses of Soil Seed Bank and Vegetation to the Increasing Intensity of Human Disturbance in a Semi-Arid Region of Northern China

(2017) Cui Li et al.   Sustainability

Ecological restoration success is higher for natural regeneration than for active restoration in tropical forests

(2017) Renato Crouzeilles et al.   Science Advances

A global review of past land use, climate, and active vs. passive restoration effects on forest recovery

(2017) Paula Meli et al.   PLoS One

Functional community ecology meets restoration ecology: Assessing the restoration success of alluvial floodplain meadows with functional traits

(2016) Karina Engst et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

A Comparison of Lepidoptera Communities Inhabiting Restored and Late Successional Pitch Pine—Scrub Oak Barrens in Pennsylvania

(2016) Wendy Leuenberger et al.   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

Plant functional group responses in an African tropical forest recovering from disturbance

(2016) Amy E. Eycott et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Spatial scale modulates the strength of ecological processes driving disease distributions

(2016) Jeremy M. Cohen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Incomplete recovery of ecosystem processes after two decades of riparian forest restoration

(2016) Virginia Matzek et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

A global meta-analysis on the ecological drivers of forest restoration success

(2016) Renato Crouzeilles et al.   Nature Communications

Leaf litter arthropod responses to tropical forest restoration

(2016) Rebecca J. Cole et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Patch-burn grazing increases habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity of small mammals in managed rangelands

(2016) Andrew M. Ricketts et al.   Ecosphere

An assessment of rehabilitation success in an African grassland using ants as bioindicators

(2016) Samantha-Leigh Jamison et al.   KOEDOE

The restoration of termite diversity in different reforestated forests

(2015) Reniel Chaves de Paula et al.   AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS

Effectiveness of afforested shrub plantation on ground-active arthropod communities and trophic structure in desertified regions

(2015) Rentao Liu et al.   CATENA

Group-based modeling of ecological trajectories in restored wetlands

(2015) Jeffrey W. Matthews   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Influence of plant communities and soil properties during natural vegetation restoration on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in a karst region

(2015) Yueming Liang et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Efficiency of different planted forests in recovering biodiversity and ecological interactions in Brazilian Amazon

(2015) Jéssica C.F. Falcão et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Does a minimal intervention approach threaten the biodiversity of protected areas? A multi-taxa short-term response to intervention in temperate oak-dominated forests

(2015) Pavel Sebek et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Random sampling of skewed distributions implies Taylor’s power law of fluctuation scaling

(2015) Joel E. Cohen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Litter and soil arthropod colonization in reforested semi-deciduous seasonal Atlantic forests

(2015) Fernando Meloni et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Re-forestation restores native dominance in an island beetle fauna

(2015) Robin Gardner-Gee et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Committing to ecological restoration

(2015) K. Suding et al.   SCIENCE

Challenges and Prospects for Scaling-up Ecological Restoration to Meet International Commitments: Colombia as a Case Study

(2015) Carolina Murcia et al.   Conservation Letters

Seasonal succession of pollinator floral resources in four types of grasslands

(2015) J. T. Delaney et al.   Ecosphere

Is grazing exclusion effective in restoring vegetation in degraded alpine grasslands in Tibet, China?

(2015) Yan Yan et al.   PeerJ

Soil Disturbance as a Grassland Restoration Measure—Effects on Plant Species Composition and Plant Functional Traits

(2015) Tim Schnoor et al.   PLoS One

Fast but ephemeral effects of ecological restoration on forest beetle community

(2014) Atte Komonen et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Carabid beetles and spiders as bioindicators for the evaluation of montane heathland restoration on former spruce forests

(2014) Fabian Borchard et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Recovery of inland sand dune grasslands following the removal of alien pine plantation

(2014) Katalin Szitár et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Can ecological engineering restore Mediterranean rangeland after intensive cultivation? A large-scale experiment in southern France

(2014) Renaud Jaunatre et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Effects of ecological restoration on Orthoptera assemblages in a Mediterranean steppe rangeland

(2014) Jean-François Alignan et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Fruit-feeding Butterfly Communities are Influenced by Restoration Age in Tropical Forests

(2014) Clara L. B. Sant'Anna et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Effects of Montane Heathland Restoration on Leafhopper Assemblages (Insecta: Auchenorrhyncha)

(2014) Fabian Borchard et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Hidden Costs of Passive Restoration

(2014) Rakan A. Zahawi et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Meta-analysis of variation: ecological and evolutionary applications and beyond

(2014) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Life-history traits predict perennial species response to fire in a desert ecosystem

(2014) Daniel F. Shryock et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Can pollination services, species diversity and conservation be simultaneously promoted by sown wildflower strips on farmland?

(2013) Eeva-Liisa Korpela et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Early changes of orthopteran assemblages after grassland restoration: a comparison of space-for-time substitution versus repeated measures monitoring

(2013) István András Rácz et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Are only the strong surviving? Little influence of restoration on beetles (Coleoptera) in an agricultural landscape

(2013) Sacha Jellinek et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Dung beetles as indicators of tropical forest restoration success: Is it possible to recover species and functional diversity?

(2013) Lívia Dorneles Audino et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Avian community responses to restoration efforts in a complex volcanic landscape

(2013) Rubén Ortega-Álvarez et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Initial effects of restoring natural forest structures in Estonia

(2013) Diana Laarmann et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Restoration of trophic structure in an assemblage of omnivores, considering a revegetation chronosequence

(2013) Heloise Gibb et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Evaluating Ecological Restoration Success: A Review of the Literature

(2013) Liana Wortley et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Diversity and Community Similarity of Arthropods in Response to the Restoration of Former Pine Plantations

(2013) John C. Burkhalter et al.   SOUTHEASTERN NATURALIST

Can re-establishment of cattle grazing restore bryophyte diversity in abandoned mesic semi-natural grasslands?

(2012) Tuomo Takala et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Using functional diversity as an indicator of restoration success of a cut-over bog

(2012) A. D’Astous et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Methodological issues and advances in biological meta-analysis

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

The mean strikes back: mean–variance relationships and heteroscedasticity

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Community assembly of Diptera following restoration of mined boreal bogs: taxonomic and functional diversity

(2011) Amélie Grégoire Taillefer et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Restoration of ecosystem services and biodiversity: conflicts and opportunities

(2011) James M. Bullock et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Does post-mining rehabilitation restore habitat equivalent to that removed by mining? A case study from the monsoonal tropics of northern Australia

(2011) Susan F. Gould   WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Recovery of Endemic Dragonflies after Removal of Invasive Alien Trees

(2010) MICHAEL J. SAMWAYS et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Fire and grazing in a mesic tallgrass prairie: impacts on plant species and functional traits

(2010) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   ECOLOGY

Convergence and divergence in plant community trajectories as a framework for monitoring wetland restoration progress

(2010) Jeffrey W. Matthews et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Measuring the Short-term Success of Grassland Restoration: The Use of Habitat Affinity Indices in Ecological Restoration

(2010) Eszter Déri et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

An assessment of restoration success to forests planted for ecosystem restoration in loess plateau, Northwestern China

(2009) Zhanbiao Yang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

The Influence of Historical Land Use and Water Availability on Grassland Restoration

(2009) Zhuwen Xu et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

A Test of Diversity-Productivity Models in Natural, Degraded, and Restored Wet Prairies

(2009) Nicolas A. Jelinski et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Enhancement of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services by Ecological Restoration: A Meta-Analysis

(2009) J. M. R. Benayas et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of grassland management on plant functional trait composition

(2008) S KAHMEN et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Simultaneous Inference in General Parametric Models

(2008) Torsten Hothorn et al.   BIOMETRICAL JOURNAL

Cut-over peatland regeneration assessment using organic matter and microbial indicators (bacteria and testate amoebae)

(2008) Fatima Laggoun-Défarge et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Chaos in a long-term experiment with a plankton community

(2008) Elisa Benincà et al.   NATURE

Evaluating Restoration Success of Frequently Implemented Compensation Measures: Results and Demands for Control Procedures

(2008) Sabine Tischew et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Plant-Feeding Hemiptera and Orthoptera Communities in Native and Restored Mesic Tallgrass Prairies

(2007) Kristine T Nemec et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY