Editing Ecology (section)

=== Restoration Ecology ===
{{main|Restoration ecology}}
{{see also|Natural resource management}}

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| source = Grumbine (1994)<ref name="Grumbine94">{{cite journal|last1=Grumbine|first1=R. E.|year=1994|title=What is ecosystem management?|journal=Conservation Biology|volume=8|issue=1|pages=27–38|url=http://www.pelagicos.net/MARS6920_spring2010/readings/Grumbine_1994.pdf|doi=10.1046/j.1523-1739.1994.08010027.x|bibcode=1994ConBi...8...27G |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502051519/http://www.pelagicos.net/MARS6920_spring2010/readings/Grumbine_1994.pdf|archive-date=2 May 2013}}</ref>{{Rp|27}}
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Ecology is an employed science of restoration, repairing disturbed sites through human intervention, in natural resource management, and in [[environmental impact assessment]]s. Edward O. Wilson predicted in 1992 that the 21st century "will be the era of restoration in ecology".<ref name="Wilson92">{{cite book| last1=Wilson| first1=E. O.| year=1992| title=The Diversity of Life| publisher=Harvard University Press| isbn=978-0-674-05817-0| page=[https://archive.org/details/diversityoflife000wils/page/n448 440]| url=https://archive.org/details/diversityoflife000wils| url-access=registration}}</ref> Ecological science has boomed in the industrial investment of restoring ecosystems and their processes in abandoned sites after disturbance. Natural resource managers, in [[silviculture|forestry]], for example, employ ecologists to develop, adapt, and implement [[Ecosystem management|ecosystem based methods]] into the planning, operation, and restoration phases of land-use. 

Another example of conservation is seen on the east coast of the United States in Boston, MA. The city of Boston implemented the Wetland Ordinance,<ref>{{cite web |title=Boston Wetlands Ordinance |url=https://www.boston.gov/departments/environment/boston-conservation-commission |website=City of Boston |date=17 July 2016 |access-date=5 December 2022 |archive-date=5 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205224924/https://www.boston.gov/departments/environment/boston-conservation-commission |url-status=live }}</ref> improving the stability of their wetland environments by implementing soil amendments that will improve groundwater storage and flow, and trimming or removal of vegetation that could cause harm to water quality.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} Ecological science is used in the methods of sustainable harvesting, disease, and fire outbreak management, in fisheries stock management, for integrating land-use with protected areas and communities, and conservation in complex geo-political landscapes.<ref name="Hammond09" /><ref name="Grumbine94" /><ref name="Slocombe93">{{cite journal| last1=Slocombe| first1=D. S.| title=Implementing ecosystem-based management| volume=43| issue=9| pages=612–622| year=1993| jstor=1312148| doi=10.2307/1312148| journal=BioScience}}</ref><ref name="Hobbs01">{{cite journal| last1=Hobss| first1=R. J.| last2=Harris| first2=J. A.| title=Restoration ecology: Repairing the Earth's ecosystems in the new millennium| journal=Restoration Ecology| volume=9| issue=2| pages=239–246|doi=10.1046/j.1526-100x.2001.009002239.x| url=http://planet.botany.uwc.ac.za/nisl/invasives/assignment1/hobbsandharris.pdf| year=2001| bibcode=2001ResEc...9..239H| s2cid=908668| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512223703/http://planet.botany.uwc.ac.za/nisl/invasives/assignment1/hobbsandharris.pdf| archive-date=12 May 2013}}</ref>