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+ [{"page_content": "Ecological restoration usually focuses on restoring species composition of pre-disturbance communities (Engst et al. 2016) either by reintroducing targeted native species or by favoring their spontaneous recolonization on degraded sites (Rodrigues et al. 2009;Chazdon & Guariguata 2016).Restoration programs usually rely on the premise that the increased abundance of species typically found in reference ecosystems would support the recovery of key ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling, soil protection, and water supply (SER 2004;Wortley et al. 2013;Laughlin 2014;Kollmann et al. 2016).However, recent metaanalyses on restoration success have demonstrated that either species composition or ecosystem services have not been fully recovered (Crouzeilles et al. 2016;Moreno-Mateos et al. 2017;Shimamoto et al. 2018).Incomplete recovery might be explained by a lack of an explicit approach to restore ecosystem services, which are the benefits people obtain from ecosystems, such as provisioning (e.g.fresh water), supporting (e.g.nutrient cycling), regulating (e.g.climate regulation), and cultural services (e.g.recreation) (MEA 2005).Biodiversity drives ecosystem functions that underlie ecosystem service (MEA 2005) provisioning by influencing ecosystem processes that directly or indirectly affect energy and material flows (D\u00edaz et al. 2015).", "title": "Functional traits and ecosystem services in ecological restoration", "id": "1.0", "head": [