Ecological Restoration Algorithm

The steps

1. Identify the ecosystem’s baseline functional state. What did this system look like when it was functioning?
2. Apply Three Kingdoms to the ecosystem. First Kingdom (physical substrate, soil, water, organisms). Second Kingdom (relationships, food webs, succession patterns). Third Kingdom (the ecosystem’s integrated functional identity).
3. Identify the gradient. Current degraded state → functional state. The restoration channels this gradient.
4. Apply Layer I.G. What prior ecological succession patterns exist for this region? Per the Capsule: every prior cycle contributed information that the current ecosystem is constituted by.
5. Apply Pillar III (Patience). Ecological time scales are slow. Force the timeline and you produce non-functional restoration.
6. Apply Process Density. Below threshold: insufficient species and connections, no functional ecosystem. At threshold: emergence. Above threshold: brittle monoculture.
7. Establish observation per Layer I.F. Track populations, water, soil chemistry, succession. What is unobserved degrades silently.
8. Per Repetition: ecological restoration compounds across years and decades. The first cycle’s baseline informs the next.

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From the GFunnel Methodology v5.1 by Cameron Garlick, licensed CC BY 4.0. Steps are reproduced word for word.