Rehabilitating Damaged Ecosystems

Cairns, Jr.

1. Restoration Ecology: Protecting Our National and Global Life Support Systems 2. Decision Analysis: An Integrated Approach to Ecosystem Exploitation and Rehabilitation Decisions 3. Making Watershed Restoration Happen: What Does Economics Offer? 4. Principles and Guidelines for Restoration of River/Floodplain Ecosystems — Kissimmee River, Florida 5. Salt Marsh Restoration: Lessons from California 6. Mitigation Banks: A Strategy for Sustainable Ecosystem Function 7. Restoration and Management of Ecosystems for Nature Conservation in Germany 8. Alternative Endpoints for Reclamation 9. Improving Coal Surface Mine Reclamation in the Central Appalachian Region 10. Nuclear Winter: Is Rehabilitation Possible? 11. River and Stream Restoration 12. Political and Social Factors in the Patuxent River Cleanup Agreement 13. Re-Creation of Ecosystems at Mount St. Helens: Contrasts in Artificial and Natural Approaches 14. Insect Pests and Plant Stress as Considerations for Revegetation of Disturbed Ecosystems 15. Variation in Undisturbed Plant and Animal Populations and Its Implications for Studies of Recovering Ecosystems 16. Restoration Ecology: A Synthetic Approach to Ecological Research 17. Abandoned Mines in Illinois and North Dakota: Toward an Understanding of Revegetation Problems