One hundred priority questions for landscape restoration in Europe

Ockendon, Nancy; Thomas, David H.L.; Cortina, Jordi; Adams, William M.; Aykroyd, Toby; Barov, Boris; Boitani, Luigi; Bonn, Aletta; Branquinho, Cristina; Brombacher, Michael; Burrell, Charles; Carver, Steve; Crick, Humphrey Q.P.; Duguy, Beatriz; Everett, Sue; Fokkens, Bart; Fuller, Robert J.; Gibbons, David W.; Gokhelashvili, Ramaz; Griffin, Cy

One hundred priority questions for landscape restoration in Europe

Resource type

Journal article

Creator (person)

Ockendon, Nancy

Thomas, David H.L.

Cortina, Jordi

Adams, William M.

Aykroyd, Toby

Barov, Boris

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Boitani, Luigi

Bonn, Aletta

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Branquinho, Cristina

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Brombacher, Michael

Burrell, Charles

Carver, Steve

Crick, Humphrey Q.P.

Duguy, Beatriz

Everett, Sue

Fokkens, Bart

Fuller, Robert J.

Gibbons, David W.

Gokhelashvili, Ramaz

Griffin, Cy

Halley, Duncan J.

Hotham, Paul

Hughes, Francine M.R.

Karamanlidis, Alexandros A.

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McOwen, Chris J.

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Miles, Lera

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Mitchell, Roger

Rands, Michael R.W.

Roberts, Jeremy

Sandom, Christopher J.

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Spencer, Jonathan W.

ten Broeke, Erica

Tew, Eleanor R.

Thomas, Chris D.

Timoshyna, Anastasiya

Unsworth, Richard K.F.

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Warrington, Stuart

Sutherland, William J.

Date published

May 2018

Abstract

We present the results of a process to attempt to identify 100 questions that, if answered, would make a substantial difference to terrestrial and marine landscape restoration in Europe. Representatives from a wide range of European governmental and non-governmental conservation organisations, universities, independent ecologists and land managers compiled 677 questions relating to all aspects of European landscape restoration for nature and people. The questions were shortlisted by an email vote, followed by a two-day workshop, to produce the final list of 100 questions. Many of the final questions evolved through a process of modification and combination as the workshop progressed. The questions are divided into eight sections: conservation of biodiversity; connectivity, migration and translocations; delivering and evaluating restoration; natural processes; ecosystem services; social and cultural aspects of restoration; policy and governance; and economics. We anticipate that these questions will help identify new directions for researchers and policy-makers and assist funders and programme managers in allocating funds and planning projects, resulting in improved understanding and implementation of landscape-scale ecological restoration in Europe.