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Dimensions of effective volunteer restoration techniques in North America

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Key voices in ecological restoration are advocating for participatory, community-based practices to lower costs, enhance resilience, and improve outcomes by engaging volunteers in restoration practice. We reviewed methods from 19 studies that focused on techniques that specifically involved volunteers. Our review identified metrics of success (e.g. establishment, cost savings) and limitations (e.g. ability to scale) to understand what attributes constitute an effective restoration technique in the context of community-led efforts. The results from a survey of practitioners (n = 82) validate and expand the findings by identifying important criteria that are not studied in the literature (safety), by clarifying modes of technique transmission (e.g. word-of-mouth) and by highlighting key areas of work where volunteer capacity is often directed (e.g. invasive species removal, planting). We conclude with a set of criteria that can be applied to develop and evaluate techniques for evidence-based ecological restoration by volunteers. This work helps managers choose scientifically sound techniques and further accumulate evidence for volunteer-driven restoration.

conceptual frameworkevaluationimplementationknowledge mobilizationrestoration techniquesvolunteer engagement

Tim Alamenciak、Elise Gornish、Stephen D. Murphy

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Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada||School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave., Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada

Extension Specialist - Ecological Restoration, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, 1064 E. Lowell St. Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A.

School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave., Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canad

2025

10.1111/rec.70028

Restoration ecology

Restoration ecology

ISSN：1061-2971
年,卷(期)：2025.33(4)
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