Grassy Community Restoration
This chapter presents restoration case studies from Australia, the United States, Belgium, and Brazil, showing how diverse strategies can recover degraded grassy communities. It highlights the tools, knowledge, and resources needed to reverse grassland loss and demonstrates that well‑planned restoration can reintroduce species and rebuild resilient ecosystems.
Subject Tags
- Habitat restoration
- Ecosystem management
Abstract
Each case study presented shows how grassy community restoration can be undertaken to various degrees. While there are some differences in the approaches used, or in how they are structured, resourced and timed, all demonstrate that restoration can be used to recover or reintroduce species and grassy communities to lands where they are absent or degraded. This is a very important message given the threat these communities face and should give hope that there is the knowledge and the tools available to halt and even reverse grassy community loss should peoples choose to do so and are properly resourced.
Citation
Gibson-Roy, P., Heltzer, C., Godefroid, S., Goret, T., Dellicour, M., & Silveira, F. A. (2023). Grassy community restoration. In Ecological Restoration: Moving Forward Using Lessons Learned (pp. 11-62). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
TNC Authors
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Chris Helzer
The Nature Conservancy
Email: chelzer@TNC.ORG