recreatability(salvageability) In conservation, the extent to which a community or ecosystem could be re-established following disturbance (by motorway building, open-cast mining, etc.) without any noticeable change. Certain long-established communities (e.g. in Britain primary woodlands) are thought not to be recreatable since they would take many hundreds of years to re-establish their present detailed structure and composition and it is virtually impossible to reconstruct the same long-term environmental influences as fashioned their present form. Research continues into ways of recreating the important features of certain communities and some success has been achieved with grassland.

recreatability (salvageability) The term used by conservationists to denote a community or ecosystem that could be readily re-established following disturbance (by motorway building, opencast mining, etc.) without any noticeable change. Certain long-established communities (e.g. in Britain primary woodlands) are thought not to be recreatable since they would take many hundreds of years to re-establish their present detailed structure and composition and it is virtually impossible to reconstruct the same long-term environmental influences as fashioned their present form.