Figure 2.

A schematic illustration of the effects of restoration interventions (e.g., restoration, rehabilitation, and reclamation) on ecosystem structure (e.g., species diversity and structural complexity) and ecosystem function (e.g., nutrient content and cycling as well as productivity), illustrating changes that occur as a degraded ecosystem (State B) recovers toward its original state (A). Practices which lead to partial recovery are termed rehabilitation (C), in which practices that improve either or both the ecosystem structure or function—but not toward the original state (A)—are termed reclamation (C’ and C”; after Dobson et al. 1997).