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ArticleEcology letters2025

The Roles of Space and Food-Web Complexity in Mediating Ecological Recovery.

Klementyna A Gawecka, Matthew A Barbour, James M Bullock, Jordi Bascompte

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Article in Ecology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Klementyna A GaweckaDepartment of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3074-7511
Matthew A BarbourDépartement de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7686-0400
James M BullockUK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.
Jordi BascompteDepartment of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.

Funding

Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologiesHORIZON EUROPE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions EP/Z000831/1Natural Environment Research Council NE/V006525/1Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaSchweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 310030_197201Universität Zürich FK-22-114
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Landscape-scale ecological restoration is a key strategy for halting and reversing biodiversity decline. However, ensuring the long-term sustainability of restoration efforts requires guiding the recovery of complex ecological systems with many interdependent species at a landscape scale. Due to these challenges, our understanding of recovery trajectories remains limited. Using metacommunity models and experiments, we explore how the spatial configuration of communities and food-web complexity jointly influence species recovery at different spatial scales. We find that the number and spatial placement of communities affect the colonisation of empty habitat patches, but do not influence population recovery in patches where communities are introduced. Food-web complexity reduces the recovery of lower trophic levels. However, this negative effect may be partially mitigated at higher levels of food-web complexity. Our results demonstrate that the joint consideration of spatial configuration and species interactions could enhance the effectiveness of restoration actions.

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BiodiversityConservation of Natural ResourcesEcosystemFood ChainAnimalsModels, BiologicalPopulation Dynamicsecological restorationfood webslandscape dynamicsmetacommunity dynamicsspecies recoverytrophic interactions

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PMID41248218
PMCPMC12622866

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