ArticleCommunications earth & environment2024
Restoration of forestry-drained boreal peatland ecosystems can effectively stop and reverse ecosystem degradation.
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- Northern Peatlands in Transition in the 21st Century - Land Use, Status, Policies and Future Trajectories: Comparisons Between Finland, Ireland and Scotland.Environmental management · 2026Article
- Restoration of formerly afforested blanket bog: Estimating time for vegetation recovery.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- Rewetting drained boreal peatland forests does not mitigate climate warming in the twenty-first century.Ambio · 2025Article
- Tardigrade communities in pristine, drained and restored pine mire forests.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Integrating Traditional Breeding and Modern Biotechnology for Advanced Forest Tree Improvement.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- gllvm 2.0: fast fitting of advanced ordination methods and joint species distribution models.PeerJ · 2025Article
- Restoration of forestry-drained boreal peatland ecosystems can effectively stop and reverse ecosystem degradation.Communications earth & environment · 2024Article
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Abstract
Ecosystem restoration will increase following the ambitious international targets, which calls for a rigorous evaluation of restoration effectiveness. Here, we present results from a long-term before-after control-impact experiment on the restoration of forestry-drained boreal peatland ecosystems. Our data comprise 151 sites, representing six ecosystem types. Species-level vegetation sampling has been conducted before, two, five, and ten years after restoration. With joint species distribution modelling, we show that, on average, not restoring leads to further degradation, but restoration stops and reverses this trend. The variation in restoration outcomes largely arises from ecosystem types: restoration of nutrient-poor ecosystems has a higher probability of failure. Yet, the ten-year study period is insufficient to capture the restoration effects in slow-recovering ecosystems. Altogether, restoration can effectively halt the biodiversity loss of degraded ecosystems, although ecosystem attributes affect the outcome. This variability in outcomes underlies the need for evidence-based prioritization of restoration efforts across ecosystems.
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