摘要：Interest in ecological restoration has recently intensified as scientists, policymakers, and stakeholders userestoration in management strategies to address and mitigate global climate change and biodiversity loss. Northern ecosystemsoffer special challenges to restoration managers because of their short growing seasons and long recovery periods. This specialfeature of Ecology and Society on ecological restoration in northern regions draws together 11 papers based on presentationsfrom the conference "Restoring the North", convened in October 2011 in Selfoss, Iceland. We summarize two themes of thisconference: (1) setting objectives and evaluating success in restoration, and (2) legislation, policy, and implementation ofrestoration. We conclude that northern countries altogether comprise a significant knowledge base and suggest five actions toenhance restoration practices within them: (1) improved documentation of restoration actions, including objectives, measuresand results, (2) regular evaluation of restoration progress and outcome, (3) coordination of conservation actions among northerncountries, including location of restoration actions to sites where they are most useful in a global context, (4) formation of acommon platform to strengthen development of research about ecological, political, social, and technical aspects of ecologicalrestoration, and (5) education of new generations of restoration actors who can work in diverse biogeographic settings and cultures
