30 (1): Using Paleoecology in Restoration Ecology
2021 marked the beginning of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, aiming to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide. Honoring this important initiative, this issue of PAGES Magazine highlights the immense, and largely untapped, potential for synergy between paleoecology and restoration ecology. Examples illustrate the importance of paleoecology in establishing restoration “baselines” or reference conditions, determining the degree of anthropogenic impact, maintaining cultural landscapes, managing fire, and restoring missing ecosystem processes such as herbivory and pollination. This issue highlights opportunities to seamlessly integrate paleoecology and neo-ecology alongside other disciplines and knowledge streams, thereby contributing to the mainstreaming of long-term data into restoration ecology and biodiversity conservation.
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Individual Articles
> Front Cover
> Contents
> News
Editorial
> Editorial: Mainstreaming paleoecology into ecosystem restoration [p.3]
Lindsey Gillson, C. Whitlock, P. Gell, S. Prader and W. Tinner
Science Highlights
> Multiple baselines for restoration ecology [p.4-5]
Sandra Nogué, L. de Nascimento, W.D. Gosling, N.J.D. Loughlin, E. Montoya and J.M. Wilmshurst
> Paleoecology-guided ecosystem management and restoration in the Western Mediterranean [p.6-7]
César Morales-Molino and Christoph Schwörer
> The value of long-term history of small and fragmented old-growth forests for restoration ecology [p.8-9]
Walter Finsinger, E. Cagliero, D. Morresi, L. Paradis, M. Čurović, M. Garbarino, N. Marchi, F. Meloni, V. Spalević, E. Lingua and R. Motta
> Understanding and enabling variability in wetlands [p.10-11]
Max Finlayson and Peter Gell
> How paleoecology can support peatland restoration [p.12-13]
Katarzyna Marcisz, S. Czerwiński, M. Lamentowicz, D. Łuców and M. Słowińskite, J.F. González-Rouco, R. Neukom and A. Schurer
> The future of the past: Applications of paleoecological findings in peatland restoration in Indonesia [p.14-15]
K. Anggi Hapsari, T.C. Jennerjahn and H. Behling
> The use of paleoecological data in mire and moorland conservation [p.16-17]
Frank M. Chambers
> Paleoecology helps optimize restoration efforts by identifying unrealistic pre-anthropic targets [p.18-19]
Valentí Rull
> Towards integrating paleoecological and traditional knowledge to preserve the Ethiopian Ericaceous belt [p.20-21]
Graciela Gil-Romera, M. Fekadu, L. Bittner, M. Zech, H.F. Lamb, L. Opgenoorth, S. Demissew, Z. Woldu and G. Miehe
> The role of paleoecology in restoring and managing the Patagonian landscape [p.22-23]
William P. Nanavati, C. Whitlock and A. Holz
> Millennial-scale perspective on biodiversity conservation of the forest-steppe ecotone in Europe [p.24-25]
Thomas Giesecke, Petr Kuneš and L.S. Shumilovskikh
> Paleoecological records inform conservation management in New Zealand [p.26-27]
Janet M. Wilmshurst and Jamie R. Wood
> Using the knowledge of past ecosystem turnover to inform restoration efforts: A case study from Nigeria [p.28-29]
Matthew A. Adeleye, S.E. Connor, S.G. Haberle and P.A. Adeonipekun
> Challenges to forest restoration in an era of unprecedented climate and wildfire activity in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests [p.30-31]
Philip E. Higuera, S. Crausbay, B. Shuman and K. Wolf
Internship report
> Sociological analysis of the PAGES network [p.32]
Chloé Dhaille, L. Ogorzelec and B. Vannière
Editorial
> Socio-ecological approaches to conservation [p.33]
Daniele Colombaroli and Evan Larson
Special Section
> Higher fuel loads and more fire follow removal of Indigenous cultural burning across southeast Australia [p.34-35]
Michela Mariani, S Connor, M.-S. Fletcher, A. Romano and S.Y. Maezumi
> Blending tree-ring fire-scar records and Indigenous memory in northern Minnesota, USA [p.36-37]
Lane B. Johnson, E.R. Larson, K.G. Gill and J. Savage
> Landscape conservation and the ancient technique of pastoral fire in the western Pyrenees [p.38-39]
Michael R. Coughlan, T.L. Gragson and D.S. Leigh
> Socio-ecological vulnerability and adaptation of southwestern Malagasy to changing environment and climate [p.40-41]
Estelle Razanatsoa and Lindsey Gillson
> Combining paleoecological and archaeological records to inform fire management and ecosystem conservation in Killarney National Park, Ireland [p.42-43]
Donna Hawthorne, D. Colombaroli and F.J.G. Mitchell
> Paleoscience–policy "commons": Connecting the past to a sustainable future in a human-dominated tropical biodiversity hotspot [p.44-45]
Charuta Kulkarni and Dhanya Bhaskar
> Future fire predictions in light of millennial fire regime variability in Corsica, France [p.46-47]
Marion Lestienne, C. Hély, I. Jouffroy-Bapicot, T. Curt and B. Vannière
> Transforming tree-ring research through collaborations with Indigenous peoples [p.48-49]
Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz, W. Spearing and L.D. Daniels
> Working with: The ethics and practices of engaging Indigenous peoples in scientific research [p.50-51]
Kayla M. de Freitas, G.A. Winter, T. A. Kennedy, A. Johnny and J. Mistry
Program News
> Phase 4 of the PAGES 2k Network: Hydroclimate of the Common Era [p.52]
> The second phase of the Cycle of Sea-Ice Dynamics in the Earth System (C-SIDE) working group [p.53]
> Q-MARE working group [p.54]
> Expanding PlioVAR to PlioMioVAR [p.55]
Workshop Reports
> Towards reliable proxy-based reconstructions: Community perspectives and criteria for the ACME database [p.56]
> Unraveling the complex relationship between solid-Earth deformation and ice-sheet change [p.57]
> An update on advances in paleoscience in the Carpathian-Balkan region [p.58]
> PAIGE: Chronologies for Polar Paleoclimate Archives – Kickoff conference of a new Italian–German partnership project [p.59]
> C-PEAT at COP26 [p.60]
> LandCover6k [p.61]
Data Stewardship
> Data stewardship projects underway [p.62]
> What can APIs do for you? [p.63]
