Front Cover: Whether in the Amazon or on the islands of Puerto Rico, riparian tropical forest restoration is vital to human health and well-being. In this issue, we feature both a restoration note and a restoration practice article on tropical forest restoration. The note, by Danielle Celentano and Guillaume Rousseau, discusses the importance of combining restoration science with spirituality. In the article, Harold Manrique-Hernández and colleagues present a study eight years after a tropical forest restoration along the Quebrada Chiclana, a first-order tropical stream located in the headwaters of the Rio Piedras in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and point to the importance of long-term monitoring to assess restoration success. Photo credit: Danielle Celentano.

Back Cover: Top: Integral Ecological Restoration promotes the integration of restoration science with human well-being, environmental health, and spirituality as represented by this restoration workshop in a Pepital River community in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo Credit: Danielle Celentano.
Middle: For restoration projects to be successful, the drivers of degradation must first be addressed. Loflen and colleagues present a stream restoration in Forester Creek a tributary of the San Diego River, Santee, CA in which upstream degradation reduced the success of the restoration. Photo credit: Chad Loflen Forester Creek at Upstream Site Boundary
Bottom: The goals of the new Ecological Restoration section at the Ecological Society of America are to promote theoretical and applied research, teaching, communication, grant development, and collaboration on ecological restoration. Photo credit: Elise Gornish.

Ecological Restoration

In this Issue

Editorial Board

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Editorial Board

Steven I Apfelbaum
Applied Ecological Services, Wisconsin, USA.

James Aronson
Centre for Evolutionary ad Functional Ecology Lab, Montpellier, France.

Peter Bowler
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, USA.

Lindsay Campbell
USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, NY, USA.

Robin L. Chazdon
Deparment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, USA.

Francisco A. Comín Sebastián
Pyrenean Institute of Ecology-CSIC, Spain

David Drake
Departent of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Erin Espeland
USDA-ARS Pest Management Research Unit, Sidney MT USA.

Judy Haner
Marine and Freshwater Programs, The Nature Conservancy, Alabama, USA.

Holly Jones
Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, USA.

Roger Mann
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, USA.

Jill McGrady
Great Ecology Inc., La Jolla CA, USA.

Carrie Reinhardt Adams
Environmental Horticulture Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.

Greg Spyreas
Illinois Natural Hitory Survey, USA.

David J. Robertson
Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust, Philadelphia PA, USA.

Alan Unwin
School of Environmental and Horticultural Studies, Niagara College, Canada

Denis Whigham
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, USA.

Ken Yocom
Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, USA.

Luis Zambrano González
Biology Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico.

Journal Staff

Editor

Steven N. Handel

Associate Editor

Myla F.J. Aronson

Editorial Assistant

Paulina A. Arancibia

Abstracts Editors

Amy E.K. Long

Paulina A. Arancibia

Copy Editor

Joshua D. Echols

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,

Executive Dean, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

Robert M. Goodman

Chair, Socieity for Ecological Restoration International

Alan Unwin

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