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Science 25 July 1997:
Vol. 277. no. 5325, pp. 515 - 522
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5325.515
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Hopes for the Future: Restoration Ecology and Conservation Biology

Andy P. Dobson, A. D. Bradshaw, A. J. M. Baker

Conversion of natural habitats into agricultural and industrial landscapes, and ultimately into degraded land, is the major impact of humans on the natural environment, posing a great threat to biodiversity. The emerging discipline of restoration ecology provides a powerful suite of tools for speeding the recovery of degraded lands. In doing so, restoration ecology provides a crucial complement to the establishment of nature reserves as a way of increasing land for the preservation of biodiversity. An integrated understanding of how human population growth and changes in agricultural practice interact with natural recovery processes and restoration ecology provides some hope for the future of the environment.

A. P. Dobson is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Eno Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1003, USA. A. D. Bradshaw is in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK. A. J. M. Baker is in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Alfred Denny Building, Sheffield University, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.

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