title: Emerging perspectives in the restoration of biodiversity-based ecosystem services.
abstract: Given the large-scale anthropogenic alteration of natural habitats, ecological restoration is emerging as one of the most important disciplines in environmental science. Once habitats are physically restored, an important goal of restoration is to recover the ecosystem services provided by the diversity of species and their interactions (e.g., seed dispersal, pollination, pest control, and invasion resistance). However, current understanding of the ecological processes underlying this recovery is often incomplete and poorly integrated across different ecosystems. Here, we highlight recent conceptual findings in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning, food-web theory, and metacommunity theory that are relevant to restoration. We also identify knowledge gaps that will contribute to moving restoration from a site- and situation-specific discipline to a more globally applicable science.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Daniel.Montoya@bristol.ac.uk
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Montoya
authors.forename: Lucy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Memmott
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D020387:Food Chain; D006802:Human Activities; D008954:Models, Biological; D010944:Plants