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Term | Definition |
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Buffalo commons | a large open area proposed for the Great Plains in which wildlife and native people could live as they once did without interference by industrialized society |
Ecological restoration | attempt to repare some of the damage that humans have caused based on good science and pragmatic approaches |
Intervention | to apply techniques to discourage or reduce undesired organisms and favor or promote desired species |
Mitigation | repairing or rehabilitating a damaged ecosystem or compensating for damage by providing a substitute or replacement area |
Reallocation | to use a site (and its resources) to creat a new and different kind of biological community rather than the existing one |
Reclamation | chemical, biological, or physical cleanup and reconstruction of severely contaminated or degraded sites to return them to something like their original topography and vegetation |
Re-creation | construction of an entirely new biological community to replace one that has been destroyed on that or another site |
Rehabilitation | to rebuild elements of structure or function in an ecological system without necessarily achieving complete restoration to its original condition |
Remediation | cleaning up chemical contaminants from a polluted area |
Restoration | to bring something back to former manipulation of nature to re-create conditions that existed before human disturbance |
Wetland Mitigation | replacing a wetland damaged by development (roads, buildings, etc.) with a new or refurbished wetland |