Ants in restoration ecology: Why, what's ...
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Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage: Autre communication scientifique (congrès sans actes - poster - séminaire...)
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Title :
Ants in restoration ecology: Why, what's and the way forward
Author(s) :
De Almeida, Tania [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Génie Civil et Géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515 [LGCgE]
Institut de recherche de la Tour du Valat
Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale [IMBE]
Arnan, Xavier [Auteur]
Centre for Ecological Research and Applied Forestries = Centre de Recerca Ecologica i Aplicacions Forestals [CREAF]
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]
Laboratoire de Génie Civil et Géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515 [LGCgE]
Institut de recherche de la Tour du Valat
Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale [IMBE]
Arnan, Xavier [Auteur]
Centre for Ecological Research and Applied Forestries = Centre de Recerca Ecologica i Aplicacions Forestals [CREAF]
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
Publisher :
Wiley
Publication date :
2023
ISSN :
1085-3278
English keyword(s) :
active restoration
ecological engineering
ecological functions
functional traits
life-history traits
monitoring
ecological engineering
ecological functions
functional traits
life-history traits
monitoring
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'environnement/Biodiversité et Ecologie
English abstract : [en]
Global changes call for more nature-based solutions, especially in nature conservationinvolving ecological restoration. Current methods essentially based on civil engineeringare both expensive and costly in non-renewable ...
Show more >Global changes call for more nature-based solutions, especially in nature conservationinvolving ecological restoration. Current methods essentially based on civil engineeringare both expensive and costly in non-renewable energy consumption andpollution terms. The non-sustainability of these techniques is leading to the directuse of certain species to restore degraded ecosystems. Ants, because of their centralrole in ecosystem functioning and their occurrence on almost all terrestrial ecosystems,are promising candidates for environmental monitoring and such ecological restorationprojects. We provide here a narrative review of the ecological functionsperformed by ants, and we take stock of how ants are currently considered in passiveand active restoration. We then propose a trait-based approach to facilitate their useby practitioners in future restoration projects. We list and discuss both life-historytraits 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 >
Show more >Global changes call for more nature-based solutions, especially in nature conservationinvolving ecological restoration. Current methods essentially based on civil engineeringare both expensive and costly in non-renewable energy consumption andpollution terms. The non-sustainability of these techniques is leading to the directuse of certain species to restore degraded ecosystems. Ants, because of their centralrole in ecosystem functioning and their occurrence on almost all terrestrial ecosystems,are promising candidates for environmental monitoring and such ecological restorationprojects. We provide here a narrative review of the ecological functionsperformed by ants, and we take stock of how ants are currently considered in passiveand active restoration. We then propose a trait-based approach to facilitate their useby practitioners in future restoration projects. We list and discuss both life-historytraits 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
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