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Ecological restoration (strict sense) |
To return a biological community to its predisturbance structure and function. |
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Ecological restoration (broad sense) |
To reverse degradation and reestablish some aspects of an ecosystem that previously existed on a site. |
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Rehabilitation |
To rebuild a community to a useful, functioning state but not necessarily its original condition. |
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Intervention |
To apply techniques to discourage or reduce undesired organisms and favor or promote desire species. |
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Reallocation |
To use a site and it's resources to create a new different kind of biological community rather than the existing one. |
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Remediation |
To clean chemical contaminants from a polluted area using relatively mild or nondestructive methods. |
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Reclamation |
To use a powerful chemical or physical methods to clean and repair severely degraded or even barren sites. |
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Re-creation |
To construct an entirely new ecosystem on a severely degraded site. |
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Mitigation |
To replace a degraded site with one of more or less equal ecological value somewhere else. |
