Restoration ecology is a separate field in ecology supporting the practice of ecological restoration, which is the practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment by active human intervention and action. Restoration may also be from natural disasters such as fire, mudslides, invasive weeds or translocations of nonendemic species.
Human intervention is involved in restoration ecology from either man made events or natural disaters. Understanding the ecoystems, and the dynamics of the system is import to establish the sytem back to its natural state.
This is required by those that are going into restoration careers
Restoration is a process both in healing and rejuvination. This course will shed light on the correlation between ecological and self restoration.
Globalization has impacted ecological processes and restoration will be key for future survival of species
This study will create the awareness of processes involved in restoration on an ecological level
There is no culture immuned to the impact of man made influencers
The student will have developed creative and innovative knowledge to implement restoration processes
The course will engage each students in the capcity to better understand the relationship, interaction, synergism and antagonist approaches to these concepts.
