标题：Inside the “Black Box” of River Restoration: Using Catchment History to Identify Disturbance and Response Mechanisms to Set Targets for Process-Based Restoration
摘要：Many river restoration projects fail. Inadequate project planning underpins many of thereasons given for failure (such as setting overly ambitious goals; selecting inappropriate sites and techniques;losing stakeholder motivation; and neglecting to monitor, assess, and document projects). Another majorproblem is the lack of an agreed guiding image to direct the activities aimed at restoring the necessarybiophysical and ecological processes within the logistic constraints of on-ground works. Despite a richliterature defining the components of restoration project planning, restoration ecology currently lacks anexplicit and logical means of moving from the initial project vision through to on-ground strategies. Yetthis process is fundamental because it directly links the ecological goals of the project to the on-groundstrategies used to achieve them. We present a planning process that explicitly uses an interdisciplinarymechanistic model of disturbance drivers and system responses to build from the initial project vision tothe implementation of on-ground works. A worked example on the Upper Hunter River in southeasternAustralia shows how understanding catchment history can reveal disturbance and response mechanisms,thus facilitating process-based restoration
