Restoration of an ecosystem after invasive alien species control is both expensive and hard to achieve, unless the ecosystem retains a strong regeneration potential. This is especially true in marine ecosystems where invasive alien species management has proven to be largely ineffective (Lopez et al., 2006). Integrating management and restoration into an adaptive management approach requires long-term monitoring to assess efficacy, outcomes and timely detection of lost resilience and reinvasion. Benefits of management, particularly to local communities, also need to be evaluated. In successful cases of restoration in terrestrial ecosystems, efforts are limited in space and time and goals are clearly defined and achievable with available resources (IPBES, 2018).