Table of Contents

1 CONCEPTS OF ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION
1.1 Basic Perspectives and Principles
1.2 Basic Terms and Concepts
1.3 China's Ecological Restoration Programs
1.4 Suggested Readings
2 DISTURBANCE, IMPAIRMENT AND RECOVERY
2.1 Disturbance
2.2 Ecological Consequences of Impairment
2.3 Recovery
2.4 Ecological Views of Recovery
2.5 Suggested Readings
3 ECOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTES OF RESTORED ECOSYSTEMS
3.1 Species Composition
3.2 Community Structure
3.3 Abiotic Environment
3.4 Landscape Context
3.5 Ecological Functionality
3.6 Historic Continuity
3.7 Ecological Complexity
3.8 Self-Organization
3.9 Suggested Readings
4 ECOLOGICAL REFERENCES
4.1 Reference Concept
4.2 Types of Reference Sites
4.3 Steps in Reference Model Preparation
4.4 Temporal References
4.5 References in Landscape Restoration
4.6 Trajectories
4.7 Suggested Readings
5 APPROACHES TO RESTORATION
5.1 Intensity of Effort
5.2 Framework Approach
5.3 Sources of Knowledge
5.4 Physico-Chemical Techniques
5.5 Plant-Bacterial Partnership
5.6 Bioremediation
5.7 Biosystems for Non-Destructive Remediation
5.8 Suggested Readings
6 PROJECT PLANNING, EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT
6.1 Guidelines for Restoration
6.2 Strategies and Designs
6.3 Project Implementation
6.4 Inoculating Soils and Substrates
6.5 Project Evaluation
6.6 Project Aftercare
6.7 Suggested Readings
7 RIVER RESTORATION
7.1 Riverscape and Flow
7.2 Surface, Subsurface and Benthic
7.3 River Food Web
7.4 Biology and Macrophyte
7.5 Nutrition
7.6 Contamination
7.7 Remediation and Remediation Standard
7.8 Ex Situ Remediation and Channel Restoration
7.9 In Situ Remediation
7.10 Suggested Readings
8 LAKE RESTORATION
8.1 Context for Restoration
8.2 Principles, Planning and Accomplishment of Lake Restoration Projects
8.3 Modelling for Catchment Management
8.4 Modelling Water Quality to Support Lake Restoration
8.5 Nutrient Budgets in Lakes
8.6 Physical Processes for In-Lake Restoration: Destratification and Mixing
8.7 Flocculants and Sediment Capping for Phosphorus Management
8.8 Control of Invasive Aquatic Plants
8.9 Indicators of Ecological Integrity
8.10 Biodiversity Genomics: Monitoring Restoration Efforts Using DNA Barcoding
and Environmental DNA
8.11 Automated High-frequency Monitoring and Research
8.12 Applying Citizen Science to Freshwater Ecosystem Restoration
8.13 Suggested Readings
9 SOIL REMEDIATION
9.1 Soil Containment
9.2 Fate and Behavior of Anthropogenic Pollutants
9.3 Soil Decontamination
9.4 Rehabilitation of Soils in Urban Environments
9.5 Rehabilitation of Soils in Mining and Raw Material Extraction Areas
9.6 Suggested Reading
10 SITE RESTORATION
10.1 Using a Field Analytical Approach to Accelerate Site Assessments
10.2 The Nature and Extent of Site Contamination
10.3 Mobility and Availability of Contaminants
10.4 Biodegradation and Bioremediation
10.5 Advances in Phytoremediation: Phytotransformation
10.6 Natural Attenuation
10.7 In-Situ Treatment Technologies
10.8 PCB-Approaches to Removal from the Environment
10.9 Suggested Readings