Monitoring and evaluation of restoration activities are critical steps toward developing and improving upon ecological restoration practices (Lindenmayer and Likens 2010; Lindenmayer et al. 2012).
We term such evaluations, departure analyses, and we describe how departure analysis is implemented in a decision support system (DSS) for integrated landscape evaluation and restoration planning.
Stream-habitat assessment for evaluation of restoration projects requires the examination of many parameters, both watershed-scale and reach-scale, to incorporate the complex non-linear effects of geomorphic, riparian, watershed and hydrologic factors on aquatic ecosystems.
A second major requirement, dependent on this cause-effect chain between fluvial dynamics, habitat composition and ecology is the development of a prognostic ecohydrological parameter set which allows an evaluation of restoration scenarios and a prediction of their effects at a range of temporal and spatial scales.
Although insect pollination is fundamental to the persistence of plants in restored habitats, it is rarely taken in to account in evaluations of restoration success.
As no 2 × 2 contingency table could be constructed for the survival of ART restorations at evaluation year 1, restoration survival scores of evaluation years 1 and 5 were presented as combined.
But, regardless of esthetic evaluations, the restoration in its present unfinished state is irrefutably historically inaccurate.
Measurements of vegetation are most commonly used in evaluations of restoration projects, with less frequent analysis of soils, fauna, and hydrologic characteristics.
The direct clinical evaluation of restorations was performed using the modified USPHS criteria listed in Table 4.
During the meeting, over fifty experts analysed detailed and critical evaluations of restoration activities, as well as proposals for future improvement and further expansion of the Great Green Wall.
