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Grand challenges in restoration ecology

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Destruction is so easy, restoration so hard.

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Loss can be informative

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Even tiny ones.

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Global losses have introduced significant need for restoration

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needs-driven syntheses

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Science for Nature & People

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grand challenges

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grand challenge is global

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grand challenge is a specific critical barrier or set of barriers that if
removed help solve an important problem
health

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innovation

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the attributes of a grand challenge
major impacts if solved
ambitious but achievable
compelling & intrinsically motivating
Goldilocks level of specificity
drive & harness innovation
fromTom Kalil,White House

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Grand challenges in restoration: steps to build
1. Questions that restoration examines
2. Challenges to effective restoration
3. Matching of questions to challenges
4. Solution synthesis/general blueprint

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Sample questions
1. How well does conservation biology and restoration ecology
support and enable one another?
2. Does fundamental ecological theory significantly contribute to
restoration ecology or does most restoration begin with a ‘problem’
that needs a solution?
3. Is most restoration ecology manipulative? How are mensurative
experiments and observation leveraged in restoration ecology?

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Sample questions
4. How inter-related are management and restoration in
their alignment of needs and research agendas?
5.Are there syntheses of the local-versus-regional drivers
that influence the outcome restoration efforts?
6. How commonly are the human factors included in restoration
efforts or in experiments?

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foundations

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foundations

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restoring natural capital is an opportunity
Aronson

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Grand challenges in restoration
are interdisciplinary