[APWG] Ecosystem restoration standards

[Larry Morse]

Wayne and others:

Although I've only been incidentally involved in restoration projects, I've been following much of the recent APWG discussion on goals, methods, and standards.

While I'm not commenting here on the apparently intended content of your proposed standard (1Sep09 draft excerpted below), I do suggest a clarification to include "locally native" in the part about increasing species diversity --  perhaps as "... establish a trend toward increased diversity of locally native species ... "

Similarly, the part on resistance to invasion might refer to non-natives, as contrasted to "invasive" native species involved in succession or other ecological processes.  Possible wording might be " ... be resistant to invasion by non-native species without ... "

Larry Morse

-----Original Message-----
>From: Wayne Tyson <landrest at cox.net>
>Sent: Sep 1, 2009 8:28 PM
>To: apwg at lists.plantconservation.org
>Subject: [APWG] Ecosystem restoration standards
>
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>*Any ecosystem restoration project should establish a trend toward increased 
>species diversity up to its maximum feasible level according to site 
>conditions and be resistant to invasion without further intervention and 
>continue to function as a natural ecosystem substantially similar to that 
>existing prior to disturbance.
>
>I invite APWG and others to suggest modifications to this standard. I have 
>tried to make it as brief as possible, but maybe it needs to be longer. 
>
>Discuss?
>
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