Albizzia procera enabled indigenous plants to recolonize the area and overgrow the introduced plant in a
relatively brief time.
Biological augmentation uses organisms to add essential materials to a degraded ecosystem.
Augmenting ecosystem processes requires determining what factors, such as chemical nutrients, have been removed from an area and thus are limiting its rate of recovery. Encouraging the growth of plants that thrive in nutrient–poor soils often speeds up the rate of successional changes that can lead to recovery of damaged sites. An example is the rapid re–growth of damaged sites.
An example is the rapid re-growth of indigenous plant communities along roadsides in Puerto Rico, which was overseen by Ariel Lugo, director of the U.S Forest Service's Institute of Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rics. Lugo used Albizzia procera(Albizia procera is a large, fast-growing tree that occurs on many different sites. ), a non-native plant that thrives on nitrogen–poor soils, to colonize roadside areas after the original forest was removed and soils were depleted of nutrients.
Apparently, the rapid buildup of organic material from dense stands of Albizzia enabled indigenous plants to recolonize the area and overgrow the introduced plant in a relatively brief time. Thus, ecological restoration is a rapidly growing field that represents a foundational change in our relationship to the natural world.