Ecosystem science is also used to restore degraded landscapes and freshwater systems, sustain plants and animals, and find means to adapt management to global change.

The absence of mycorrhizal fungi can also slow plant growth in early succession or on degraded landscapes.

Land clearing and cattle grazing resulted in a degraded landscape, but created the distinctive Cronulla sand dunes of today.

Morris described the degraded landscape in these terms:

The site has been subject to continuous oil and natural gas extraction and exploration since the 1960s, and is surrounded by degraded landscape as a result.

Since 1980, this method to reforest degraded landscape has been applied with some success in Niger.

Seedlings of these species will be obtained from within the park, grown in nurseries, and purchased from local growers before being transplanted in the degraded landscape.

However, these applications may be necessary for some preventative care of trees and other vegetation in areas of degraded or weedy landscapes.

It concerns landscapes that might be considered outstanding as well as everyday or degraded landscapes.

It also proposes ways for restoring degraded landscapes.