Restolink

Mitigació de l'impacte antropogènic | Conservació de la biodiversitat
Quantifying restoration success across biomes by linking biodiversity, multifunctionality and hydromorphological heterogeneity
Restoration approaches to improve the hydromorphology of streams are increasing worldwide but often fail to recover good ecological status and biodiversity. Yet, the evidence for dominant effects of hydromorphology on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning suggests that the strong potential for hydromorphological restoration is not fully explored in stream rehabilitation. From the Restolink project, we argue that restoration often fails because it does not consider the spatial scales of stream hydromorphology that are most relevant to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Moreover, traditional indicators of restoration success based on the composition of biological communities may not show the same recovery trajectory as key ecosystem functions, such as organic matter decomposition and nutrient retention.
This project is funded through the join 2019-2020 Biodiversa & Water JPI joint call for research proposals, under the BiodivRestore ERA-Net COFUND programme, with the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities through the Spanish State Research Agency and the European Union Next Generation EU funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan under grant number PCI2022-132930.