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the highest practicable extent, to maintain potential for conservation of biodiversity while pursuing ecologically sustainable production and ecologically sustainable lifestyles.
Natural regeneration - recruitment of species on sites after removal of causes of damage (threats) alone. Natural regeneration can be intentionally adopted as a restoration approach.
Non-mandatory restoration - restoration that is voluntarily carried out rather than required (mandated) by a government agency, court of law or statutory authority.
Primary treatment - the first treatment of a site (e.g. removal of standing weed biomass), after which there will be subsequent follow up treatments referred to as 'secondary treatments'.
Reconstruction - a restoration approach where the pre-existing biota need to be entirely or almost entirely reintroduced as they cannot regenerate or recolonise within feasible timeframes, even after expert assisted regeneration interventions.
Recovery - the process of an ecosystem regaining its composition, structure and function relative to the levels identified for the reference ecosystem. As this can occur in full or in part, this term can apply to both ecological restoration and rehabilitation.
Reference ecosystem – a real or notional community of organisms able to act as a model or benchmark for restoration. A reference ecosystem usually represents a healthy version of the ecosystem complete with its flora, fauna, functions, processes and successional states that would have existed on the restoration site had degradation, damage or destruction not occurred - but it can be adjusted to suit changed current conditions.
Regeneration - see 'natural regeneration' and 'assisted regeneration'.
Rehabilitation - the process of reinstating ecosystem functionality on degraded sites where ecological restoration is not the aspiration, to permit ongoing provision of ecosystem goods and services including support of biodiversity.
Restoration - see 'ecological restoration'. The term 'restoration' is in common usage and can be used singly and in combination with other words to convey an intent to return something to a prior condition (e.g. restoring a species, a population or a particular ecosystem function such as carbon sequestration). Single species restoration can be considered complementary and an important component of ecological restoration.
Revegetation - actions to re-establish plants on sites / landscapes.
Site - discrete area/location. Can occur at different scales including patch and landscape.
Secondary treatment - the repeated follow-up treatments (e.g. to control weeds), required after primary treatment has triggered an ecological response.
Self-organising - a state whereby all the necessary elements are present and can now continue to develop without outside assistance. Self-organisation is evidenced by increasing plant size and biomass; reproduction; normal ratios between producers, herbivores, and predators; niche differentiation; and, overall increase in ecosystem complexity.
Self-referencing - referring to circumstances where degraded remnant vegetation serves as its own reference ecosystem.
Sod transfer - moving slabs or turves