Advancing restoration ecology: A new approach to predict time to recovery

Species composition is a vital attribute of any ecosystem. Accordingly, ecological restoration often has the original, or “natural,” species composition as its target. However, we still lack adequate methods for predicting the expected time to compositional recovery in restoration studies. We describe and explore a new, ordination regression‐based approach (ORBA) for predicting time to recovery that allows both linear and asymptotic...