A LOOK TO THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE GLOBAL CHANGE FOR THE HABITAT RESTORATION

Abstract

Warming climate and many human activities add together to exacerbate the drought effects on the ecosystems, but there are many ways to attempt to reduce or prevent these. Habitat restoration is a wide term that includes a range of activities. Although many techniques of the land rehabilitation are traditionally used since a long time, to adjust or to readdress these in order to solving or mitigating problems related to the global change seems necessary. Special attention has to be paid to consider as a target a future scenario different from those of the past. The main implications of the global change on the habitat restoration pertain to the planning and projecting phases, the choice of plants to be employed, the competition ability of the alien species, the difficulties in the conservation of river systems and wet zones, the wide spreading of parasites. The main guidelines for a habitat restoration with right attentions to the global change are explained and a case study of habitat restoration with mycorrhizal plants in Mediterranean burnt areas is showed to exemplify some consequences of the global change on the successful of the intervention.