Interesting book for a start (collections of case studies)
"Rehabilitating damaged ecosystems" John Cairns Jr., Lewis Publishers
http://books.google.nl/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0r_BbZ8GKfkC&oi=fnd&pg=PA287&dq=artificial+ecosystem+creation&ots=IZkVmEMu6b&sig=_z_F6FAKBgWQf5pdc3iAqLktS9c#v=onepage&q=artificial%20ecosystem%20creation&f=false
"Rehabilitating damaged ecosystems" John Cairns Jr., Lewis Publishers
http://books.google.nl/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0r_BbZ8GKfkC&oi=fnd&pg=PA287&dq=artificial+ecosystem+creation&ots=IZkVmEMu6b&sig=_z_F6FAKBgWQf5pdc3iAqLktS9c#v=onepage&q=artificial%20ecosystem%20creation&f=false