We agree with Larkin et al. 2019: restoration is context specific

Holly P Jones¹, Peter C Jones², Edward B Barbier³, Ryan C Blackburn², Jose M Rey Benayas^{4

5}, Karen D Holl⁶, Michelle McCrackin⁷, Paula Meli^{4

8}, Daniel Montoya^{9

10}, David Moreno Mateos^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences and Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability, and Energy, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA.
³ School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
⁴ Fundación Internacional para la Restauración de Ecosistemas, Madrid, Spain.
⁵ Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
⁶ Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
⁷ Baltic Sea Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁸ Department of Forest Sciences, 'Luiz de Queiroz' College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
⁹ Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modeling, Station D'Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS, Moulis, France.
¹⁰ Centre INRA de Dijon, Dijon Cedex, France.
¹¹ Basque Center for Climate Change - BC3, Bilbao, Spain.
¹² IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain.

Comment

Holly P Jones et al. Proc Biol Sci. 2019.

. 2019 Jul 24;286(1907):20191179.

doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1179. Epub 2019 Jul 17.

¹ Department of Biological Sciences and Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability, and Energy, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA.
³ School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
⁴ Fundación Internacional para la Restauración de Ecosistemas, Madrid, Spain.
⁵ Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
⁶ Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
⁷ Baltic Sea Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁸ Department of Forest Sciences, 'Luiz de Queiroz' College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
⁹ Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modeling, Station D'Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS, Moulis, France.
¹⁰ Centre INRA de Dijon, Dijon Cedex, France.
¹¹ Basque Center for Climate Change - BC3, Bilbao, Spain.
¹² IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain.

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Conflict of interest statement

We declare we have no competing interests.

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