Abstract for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County Symposium (April 19)
Three years ago a team of soil ecologists, including me,
coined the term soil ecological knowledge (SEK) to refer to ways in which insights
from the our discipline might be incorporated into restoration management. Formally SEK acknowledges interactions among
the principal components of the soil system as well as feedback between the
aboveground and belowground ecosystem processes. For restoration to achieve its complex ends intentional
and holistic integration of all aspects of the soil knowledge, physical,
chemical and biological is necessary.
Some of the motivation for the development of SEK approaches to
restoration emerged from work in the Forest Preserve District of Cook County. We illustrate the approach with examples of
managing in the face of invasion by exotic shrubs and earthworms.
Original SEK paper
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