Title :

Ants in restoration ecology: Why, what's and the way forward

Author(s) :

De Almeida, Tania [Auteur correspondant]
Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale [IMBE]
Institut de recherche de la Tour du Valat
Laboratoire de Génie Civil et Géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515 [LGCgE]
Arnan, Xavier [Auteur]
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco [UFRPE]
CREAF - Centre for Ecological Research and Applied Forestries
Capowiez, Yvan [Auteur]
Environnement Méditerranéen et Modélisation des Agro-Hydrosystèmes [EMMAH]
Hedde, Mickael [Auteur]
Ecologie fonctionnelle et biogéochimie des sols et des agro-écosystèmes [UMR Eco&Sols]
Mesleard, Francois [Auteur]
Institut de recherche de la Tour du Valat
Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale [IMBE]
Dutoit, Thierry [Auteur]
Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale [IMBE]
Blight, Olivier [Auteur]
Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale [IMBE]

Journal title :

Land Degradation and Development

Pages :

1284-1295

Publisher :

Wiley

Publication date :

2024

ISSN :

1085-3278

English keyword(s) :

active restoration
ecological engineering
ecological functions
functional traits
life-history traits
monitoring

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

English abstract : [en]

Global changes call for more nature‐based solutions, especially in nature conservation involving ecological restoration. Current methods essentially based on civil engineering are both expensive and costly in non‐renewable ...
Show more >Global changes call for more nature‐based solutions, especially in nature conservation involving ecological restoration. Current methods essentially based on civil engineering are both expensive and costly in non‐renewable energy consumption and pollution terms. The non‐sustainability of these techniques is leading to the direct use of certain species to restore degraded ecosystems. Ants, because of their central role in ecosystem functioning and their occurrence on almost all terrestrial ecosystems, are promising candidates for environmental monitoring and such ecological restoration projects. We provide here a narrative review of the ecological functions performed by ants, and we take stock of how ants are currently considered in passive and active restoration. We then propose a trait‐based approach to facilitate their use by practitioners in future restoration projects. We list and discuss both life‐history traits relevant for environmental monitoring and functional traits known to affect abiotic (physical and chemical soil properties) and biotic (plant and fauna communities) components.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Laboratoire Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515

Source :

Harvested from HAL