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Concurrent Education Session

Biodiversity

FRI-D10: Tapping into Ecological Memory: A Key to Resilient Design

Friday, October 10, 2025
3:45 PM – 5:00 PM CT
1.25 PDH, LA CES/HSW

Through the lens of ecological memory, emerging approaches blend foundational restoration principles with innovations in landscape form, posing the question: What can we learn from plant competition dynamics, wildlife habitat forms, migration patterns, soil processes, and adaptation processes to respond to today’s biodiversity crisis and create and maintain resilient landscapes?

Learning Outcomes:

  • Learn how biodiversity can be restored and maintained in the public realm through creative and innovative approaches to landscape restoration, through the lens of ecological memory.
  • Examine a variety of novel ecosystem restoration techniques and foundational design principles that meet community, biodiversity, and habitat goals while responding to degraded and denuded landscape form and function.
  • Discover an approach that embraces invasive species as ecological niche indicators of innovation potential, learning “nature hacks” that lead to functional plant communities and foster beneficial ecological memory.
  • Examine innovations in regenerative soil function and adaptive operations and management of native landscapes and public gardens.