Margaret A. Palmer

Restoring streams in an urbanizing world

Summary 1. The world's population is increasingly urban, and streams and rivers, as the low lying points of the landscape, are especially sensitive to and profoundly impacted by...

Species diversity enhances ecosystem functioning through interspecific facilitation

Linking species diversity to the functioning of ecosystems: on the importance of environmental context

There is currently much interest in understanding how loss of biodiversity might alter ecological processes vital to the functioning of ecosystems. Unfortunately, ecologists hav...

Restoration of Ecosystem Services for Environmental Markets

Ecological restoration is an activity that ideally results in the return of an ecosystem to an undisturbed state. Ecosystem services are the benefits humans derive from ecosyste...