Dear colleagues,

It is a pleasure to announce the forthcoming Special Issue "Terrestrial
Ecosystem Restoration" to be published in the journal Sustainability (ISSN
2071-1050; http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/). The Special
Issue is now open to receive submissions of full research papers and
comprehensive review articles for peer-review and possible publication.

Restoration Ecology is a relatively new field where concepts such as
sustainability are mostly theoretically posed rather than quantitatively based.
Traditional restoration science has been guided by successional theory
towards a historic reference system. However, restoration practice must
adapt new strategies as many systems appear resilient to traditional
restoration approaches. This Special Issue of Sustainability addresses this
question: How do we move forward rather than backward towards
ecosystem restoration for sustainability in today's anthropogenically-
influenced systems? Recent work in restoration practice confirms that a
major conceptual restoration flaw is the assumption that terrestrial systems
are orderly and static rather than dynamic. Hence current restoration
success criteria perhaps are not in fact realistic or sustainable. Furthermore,
how do we incorporate future disturbance regimes into criterion for
sustainability - be they natural or anthropogenic, small scale or large scale?
This Special Issue will publish papers that address questions such as how
do we define, promote, and evaluate science, practice, and policy-based
sustainability success criteria into the field of restoration ecology? It is a
goal of this Special Issue to publish papers that span restoration
sustainability objectives that may range from mandated restoration
(i.e., endangered species recovery), to reversing biodiversity loss, to the
recovery of ecosystem function. In addition, this Special Issue aims to
publish papers investigating these questions across trophic levels,
geographic origins, disturbance regimes, and/or conflicting multi-use
perspectives. Papers that evaluate progress and explore novel approaches
towards the sustainability of restoration theory or practice are encouraged.

Special Issue: Terrestrial Ecosystem Restoration
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/si/sustainability/ecosystem_restoration/
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2012

Guest Editor
Dr. Susan Cordell
USDA, Forest Service
Pacific Southwest Research Station
Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry
60 Nowelo Street
Hilo, HI 96720, Hawaii
USA
Website: http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/programs/cb/staff/scordell/
E-Mail: scordell01@fs.fed.us

You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline.

Submitted papers should not have been published previously, nor be under
consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send
us their tentative title and short abstract by e-mail for approval to the
Editorial Office at sustainability@mdpi.com.

This Special Issue will be fully open access. Article Processing Charges are
500 CHF for well prepared manuscripts before 1 July 2012.
For details see:
http://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors before submitting a manuscript:

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/instructions/.

Manuscripts should be submitted through the online manuscript submission
and editorial system at http://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/.

Sustainability, an international and cross-disciplinary, scholarly, open access
journal of environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability of
human beings, which provides an advanced forum for studies related to
sustainability and sustainable development, is published by MDPI online
monthly. In case of questions, please contact the Editorial Office at:

sustainability@mdpi.com

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

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