Indigenous invertebrate components in ecological restoration in agricultural landscapes
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1998
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The challenge of community restoration is to
understand and exploit the principles of
ecological succession at all seral stages, by
complementing and accelerating the processes of
colonisation and regeneration. The main aim is to
construct self-sustaining, appropriate
communities, connected in the landscape, that
meet conservation, landscape and crop
production goals.
Research, to date, has been biased towards
the plant and soil components with little
consideration for the animal element. We discuss
the importance of this missing component, put
forward our belief that it is essential for
enhancing landscape biodiversity, given that
invertebrates provide the bulk of the biodiversity
in New Zealand, and ensure that many ecological
functions are performed. We suggest that
restoration is an ideal model system for testing
succession theory.
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