Designing restoration programs based on understanding the drivers of ecological change

This book chapter from Integrating Biological Control into Conservation Practice (eds. Roy G. Van Driesche, Daniel Simberloff, Bernd Blossey, Charlotte Causton, Mark S. Hoddle, Christian Marks, Kevin M. Heinz, David L. Wagner, and Keith D. Warner) reviews the ecological restoration and conservation planning process, focusing on the roles invasive species play in ecological change. The authors discuss how to determine if an invasive species rises to the level of threat that warrants development of a biological control program, and describe restoration of Connecticut River floodplain forests in the northeastern United States as a case study.