·ESs provide a bridge between the natural ecosystem and human society and have been widely applied in assessments of ecological restoration ES methods such as the unit value equivalent method Hu et al 2020; Wang et al 2021a 2021b and the physical value method Fu et al 2011 have been used to assess ecological
·FormalPara Summary and Key Lessons Mining operations often result in highly altered ecological systems due to the innate process of mining where the original cover of plants and fauna are typically lost there is large scale removal of soil and alteration of geological profiles and often sites need to be managed in terms of the release of
·The Punakaiki Coastal Restoration Project PCRP site is located on the West Coast of the South Island New Zealand adjacent to several ecologically important sites; the Paparoa National Park the Westland Petrel Specially Protected Area and the Nikau Scenic reserve Fig 1 The significance of this site to ecological restoration is
·The Chinese government has pursued comprehensive ecological conservation and restoration by establishing an ecological barrier system However the majority of international research tends to focus on the connectivity between habitats overlooking the functions that ecological barriers play in ecological conservation and
·These EEPs conceived and implemented in the first decade of the 21st century have effectively improved the ecological environment in China but intensive ecological engineering projects potentially also have adverse impacts on the ecosystems in the form of widespread water deficits Yang et al 2021 due to increased
·A primary objective of the restoration of post mining sites based on ecological engineering is establishing a long term sustainable ecosystem which depends on the adaptations of species to newly formed site conditions The ecological criteria for assessing restoration success are presented in the context of ecosystem service
·Development of mineral resources and the increasing mining waste emissions have created a series of environmental and health related issues Nowadays the ecological restoration of mining tailings has become one of the urgent tasks for mine workers and environmental engineers all over the world Aim of the present paper is to highlight
The northern sand proof belt is the key zone for preventing and controlling desertification and sandification in China and it is the core area of the Three Norths project which is characterized by infertile soil high wind speed drought and water shortage sparse vegetation and low ecological resilience and the contradiction between large scale open
·Executive Summary Mining has been and remains an integral part of human existence from Stone Age quarries through to the iron and coal that fueled the industrial revolution to the new materials
·Restoration Ecology Laboratory Department of Environmental Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Indian School of Mines Dhanbad Jharkhand India and theoretical and practical progress of ecological restoration and points out some key aspects of future research in ecological restoration of abandoned mine lands along
The project added 350 000 hectares of trees through planting and natural regeneration and was so successful that in 2018 the federal government launched a plan to plant 10 billion trees over five years Forest restoration projects like this can absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and provide jobs and drinking water for nearby communities
·The ecological restoration technology combining grazing exclusion sand barrier with Salix takasagoalpina fertilization artificial planting and continuous management has been widely used in the treatment of flowing sands in the northwest Sichuan alpine region for the purpose of solving the technical bottleneck problems of
·These EEPs conceived and implemented in the first decade of the 21st century have effectively improved the ecological environment in China but intensive ecological engineering projects potentially also have adverse impacts on the ecosystems in the form of widespread water deficits Yang et al 2021 due to increased
·Selection of appropriate river water treatment methods is important for the restoration of river ecosystems An in depth review of different river water treatment technologies has been carried out in this study Among the physical engineering processes aeration is an effective sustainable and popular technique which increases microbial
·The mining of mineral resources has caused serious damage to land and significant pressure on ecological environment During the repairing of damaged land and degraded ecosystems there have been many pieces of literature related to land reclamation and ecological restoration LRER that have emerged To understand the progress and
·The general trend of temporal variations of ecosystem types and ecological problems studied in three periods Ecosystem types Among all the ecosystem types shown in previous studies Fig 2a forest ecosystems were most commonly investigated Tree planting was regarded as one of important restoration techniques in China [] Most forest
·This paper brings perspectives from ecological economics social metabolism political ecology and IE to present a comparative analysis of 24 EDCs around heavy mineral sand HMS mining across the world 2 We offer a pathway for integration of political ecological analysis into IE as well as foreground conflicts around an under
·The threshold of vegetation impact on ecosystem services during ecological restoration is gradually becoming an important reference in the implementation of ecological restoration projects Ma et al 2023 The QTP is a regionally important water supply and carbon sequestration and oxygen release area Chen et al 2022; Wang et al 2022a b
·This ecological restoration project began in 2012 as a collaboration among City of Cape Town Stellenbosch University and the Millenium Seed Bank programme The project has both research and operational management components fostering a co learning approach that is designed to improve the outcomes of ecological restoration interventions
·Since 1978 the Chinese government has rolled out several ecological restoration programs in the above region covering the Three North Shelterbelt Project Hu et al 2021; Xie et al 2020 Grain for Green Program Dang et al 2020; Wu et al 2019 the Natural Forests Conservation Program Li et al 2017 as well as the Beijing Tianjin
·Mining activities produced a lot of abandoned mine land This paper introduced the theoretical and technical progress of ecological restoration of surface coal mines mining subsidence land and coal waste piles in China and discussed some key problems for research in the future Ecological restoration of abandoned mine land was
·Since 1999 China has implemented several national ecological restoration programs including The Grain for Green Program GFG The Natural Forest Protection Program NFPP and The Key Shelterbelt Development Programs since the late 1999s and early 2000s Delang and Yuan 2016 These programs had played an
·The implementation of ecological restoration work is a prerequisite for the realization of the value of ecological products Yurui et al 2021 For China carrying out ecological resto ration work and promoting the realization of the value of ecological products are both important elements in the construction of ecological civilization Meng et al 2021
·Based on the vegetation ecological quality index retrieved by satellite remote sensing in the karst areas of Guangxi in 2000 2019 the status of the ecological restoration of the vegetation and the influencing factors of the ecological restoration potential of the vegetation were analyzed Then habitats with a similar ecological restoration