Rewilding

Sandom, Christopher J.; Donlan, C. Josh; Svenning, Jens‐Christian; Hansen, Dennis M.

doi:10.1002/9781118520178.ch23

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“…Maintaining disturbance-dependent habitats after the withdrawal of those human activities is a difficult restoration process. It can be guided by knowledge of the past (Vera 2000;Gillson and Willis 2004;Willis and Birks 2006;Sandom et al 2013b), and by improving our ability to understand ecosystem dynamics and projecting potential restoration pathways. This means identifying the most desirable outcome in terms of both biodiversity and resilience.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A study on fenced populations of wild boar showed that their rooting behavior can create germination niches (Sandom et al 2013a) and contribute to forest regeneration. However, they can also be detrimental to the established trees when bark stripping and uprooting (Sandom et al 2013b). Reintroducing ecosystem engineers to restore and/or Mitchell-Jones et al 1999) maintain disturbance dependent habitats can also be more time and cost effective than man-made restoration (Byers et al 2006;Sandom et al 2013a).…”

Section: Maintaining Disturbance-dependent Habitatsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…8.4), species can be introduced to restore ecosystem functioning (Sandom et al 2013b). That is, provided that their functional role is left unattended (Lipsey and Child 2007), and that the abandoned land meets their requirement in natural resources.…”

Section: Maintaining Disturbance-dependent Habitatsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…4), yet no specific guidelines are designed for the natural control of reintroduced populations (IUCN 2013). For instance, the large populations of browsers in the Scottish Highlands, where large carnivores have been extinct for centuries, currently limit the natural forest regeneration (Sandom et al 2013b). …”

Section: Maintaining Disturbance-dependent Habitatsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Maintaining Disturbance-Dependent Habitats

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Pereira

2015

Rewilding European Landscapes

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Natural disturbances, or the lack thereof, contributed to shape Earth's landscapes and maintain its diversity of ecosystems. In particular, natural fire dynamics and herbivory by wild megafauna played an essential role in defining European landscapes in pre-agricultural times. The advent of agriculture and the development of complex societies exacerbated the decline of European megafauna, leading to local and global extinctions of many species, and substantial alterations of fire regimes. Those natural phenomena were over time gradually and steadily replaced by anthropogenic disturbances. Yet, for the first time since the Black Death epidemic, agricultural land-use is decreasing in Europe. Less productive marginal areas have been progressively abandoned as crop and livestock production has become concentrated on the most fertile and easier to cultivate land. With little or no substitute for the anthropogenic disturbances associated with these abandoned agricultural practices, there is growing concern that disturbance-dependent communities may disappear, along with their associated ecosystem services. Nonetheless, rewilding can give an opportunity to tackle the issue of farmland abandonment. This chapter first depicts the historical European landscapes and the role of two natural disturbances, herbivory and fire. The importance of disturbance-dependent habitats is then highlighted

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Section: Maintaining Disturbance-dependent Habitatsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Maintaining Disturbance-dependent Habitatsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Maintaining Disturbance-dependent Habitatsmentioning

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2015

Rewilding European Landscapes

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“…The conservation value of well-connected large protected areas was illuminated by the theory of island biogeography (MacArthur and Wilson 1967), and large predators received special attention because of their importance in driving trophic cascades and their need of large and connected reserves (Terborgh and Estes 2010). More recently, the keystone species element emerges as particularly important and rewilding has come to mean species reintroduction designed to reestablish a lost or impoverished ecological process, as opposed to being motivated solely to preserve the returned species, although the distinction is sometimes fuzzy (Sandom et al 2013b). In essence, in rewilding, species' function is prioritized over form.…”

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What next? Rewilding as a radical future for the British countryside

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Macdonald²

2015

Wildlife Conservation on Farmland Volume 1

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Rewilding the tropics, and other conservation translocations strategies in the tropicalAsia‐Pacific region

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Corlett

Price

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Ecology and Evolution

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Alarm over the prospects for survival of species in a rapidly changing world has encouraged discussion of translocation conservation strategies that move beyond the focus of ‘at-risk’ species. These approaches consider larger spatial and temporal scales than customary, with the aim of recreating functioning ecosystems through a combination of large-scale ecological restoration and species introductions. The term ‘rewilding’ has come to apply to this large-scale ecosystem restoration program. While reintroductions of species within their historical ranges have become standard conservation tools, introductions within known paleontological ranges—but outside historical ranges—are more controversial, as is the use of taxon substitutions for extinct species. Here, we consider possible conservation translocations for nine large-bodied taxa in tropical Asia-Pacific. We consider the entire spectrum of conservation translocation strategies as defined by the IUCN in addition to rewilding. The taxa considered are spread across diverse taxonomic and ecological spectra and all are listed as ‘endangered’ or ‘critically endangered’ by the IUCN in our region of study. They all have a written and fossil record that is sufficient to assess past changes in range, as well as ecological and environmental preferences, and the reasons for their decline, and they have all suffered massive range restrictions since the late Pleistocene. General principles, problems, and benefits of translocation strategies are reviewed as case studies. These allowed us to develop a conservation translocation matrix, with taxa scored for risk, benefit, and feasibility. Comparisons between taxa across this matrix indicated that orangutans, tapirs, Tasmanian devils, and perhaps tortoises are the most viable taxa for translocations. However, overall the case studies revealed a need for more data and research for all taxa, and their ecological and environmental needs. Rewilding the Asian-Pacific tropics remains a controversial conservation strategy, and would be difficult in what is largely a highly fragmented area geographically.

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Rewilding

Cited by 63 publications

References 92 publications

Maintaining Disturbance-Dependent Habitats

Maintaining Disturbance-Dependent Habitats

What next? Rewilding as a radical future for the British countryside

Rewilding the tropics, and other conservation translocations strategies in the tropicalAsia‐Pacific region

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