A review of ecological restoration techniques in fluvial rivers

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baozhu Pan ◽  
Jianping Yuan ◽  
Xinhua Zhang ◽  
Zhaoyin Wang ◽  
Jiao Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Restoration Techniques

The Use of Ecological Restoration Technology in Rural Areas’ Sewage Treatment - With the Example of Jiangsu Taihu Lake Basin

2011 ◽  
Vol 281 ◽  
pp. 201-209
Author(s):  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Wen Hui Zhang ◽  
Jing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Taihu Lake ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Sewage Treatment ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Lake Basin ◽  
Current Development ◽  
Restoration Techniques

This study is basing on the goal to build a "producing development, clean and tidy village" new socialist countryside. It focuses on current ecological restoration technology development and has analyzed some new sewage treatment requirements proposed by the current development of rural areas through the investigation on Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province. First, by the research on the current pollution situation of Taihu Lake valley, management requirements of sewage in rural areas around Taihu Lake valley have been proposed. Secondly, by the study of the current development of ecological restoration technology, the feasibility and necessity of the use of sewage treatment in rural life was proposed. Finally, the ecological restoration techniques specific models and their economic benefits in landscape and their advantages are introduced, and it is proposed that for some time in the future this technology would have a very broad application prospect in China's rural areas.

scholarly journals Effect of brushwood transposition on the leaf litter arthropod fauna in a cerrado area

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 1158-1163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Cristina Benetton Vergílio ◽  
Fátima do Rosário Naschenveng Knoll ◽  
Daniela da Silva Mariano ◽  
Nágila Maiara Dinardi ◽  
Marcos Yukio Ueda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Quality ◽  
Leaf Litter ◽  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Castor Oil ◽  
Biological Indicators ◽  
Native Vegetation ◽  
Soil Community ◽  
Degraded Area ◽  
Restoration Techniques ◽  
Arthropod Fauna

The results of ecological restoration techniques can be monitored through biological indicators of soil quality such as the leaf litter arthropod fauna. This study aimed to determine the immediate effect of brushwood transposition transferred from an area of native vegetation to a disturbed area, on the leaf litter arthropod fauna in a degraded cerrado area. The arthropod fauna of four areas was compared: a degraded area with signal grass, two experimental brushwood transposition areas, with and without castor oil plants, and an area of native cerrado. In total, 7,660 individuals belonging to 23 taxa were sampled. Acari and Collembola were the most abundant taxa in all studied areas, followed by Coleoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera, and Symphyla. The brushwood transposition area without castor oil plants had the lowest abundance and dominance and the highest diversity of all areas, providing evidence of changes in the soil community. Conversely, the results showed that the presence of castor oil plants hampered early succession, negatively affecting ecological restoration in this area.

Endangered Butterflies and their Non-Native Host Plants: Examining Shifting Values of Belonging in Restoration

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Robert M. Anderson ◽  
Amy M. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Puget Sound ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Remote Island ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
Native Host

The island marble butterfly (Euchloe ausonides insulanus), thought to be extinct throughout the 20th century until re-discovered on a single remote island in Puget Sound in 1998, has become the focus of a concerted protection effort to prevent its extinction. However, efforts to “restore” island marble habitat conflict with efforts to “restore” the prairie ecosystem where it lives, because of the butterfly’s use of a non-native “weedy” host plant. Through a case study of the island marble project, we examine the practice of ecological restoration as the enactment of particular norms that define which species are understood to belong in the place being restored. We contextualize this case study within ongoing debates over the value of “native” species, indicative of deep-seated uncertainties and anxieties about the role of human intervention to alter or manage landscapes and ecosystems, in the time commonly described as the “Anthropocene.” We interpret the question of “what plants and animals belong in a particular place?” as not a question of scientific truth, but a value-laden construct of environmental management in practice, and we argue for deeper reflexivity on the part of environmental scientists and managers about the social values that inform ecological restoration.

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