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Rewilding plants and vegetation [PDF]

open access: yesCambridge Prisms: Extinction
Ecological restoration has traditionally had a bottom-up focus on plants and vegetation, but rewilding has been the opposite, and the impacts of rewilding carnivores and large herbivores on plant species and vegetation are largely unknown.
Richard T. Corlett
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Rewilding—The farmers’ perspective. Perceptions and attitudinal support for rewilding among the English farming community

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2022
Rewilding is an increasingly common conservation approach, aiming to restore ecosystem processes and minimise human intervention. Rewilding has the potential to profoundly change landscapes and people–nature relations.
Katarzyna M Mikołajczak   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Rewilding for resilience: A call to integrate quantitative and qualitative approaches for monitoring rewilding [PDF]

open access: yesCambridge Prisms: Extinction
Rewilding is a transformative conservation strategy that emphasises the restoration of ecological processes and ecosystem resilience. This perspective article addresses limitations in current rewilding monitoring practices, which predominantly rely on ...
Sally Hawkins, Mike Jones
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Rewilding South America: Ten key questions

open access: yesPerspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2017
There are various approaches to rewilding, corresponding to different socio-ecological and policy contexts. Most South American ecosystems have experienced Pleistocene and historical defaunation and the functional persistence of many areas will depend on
Meredith Root-Bernstein   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Stakeholder perceptions and planning implications for urban rewilding as a nature-based solution in Poland [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports
Urban rewilding is increasingly recognized as a nature-based solution for restoring biodiversity, mitigating climate risks, and strengthening urban resilience.
Giuseppe T. Cirella   +3 more
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Rewilding as Re-Enchantment

open access: yesReligions
Rewilding is regularly connected to re-enchantment. In some rewilding projects, ecological restoration merges with narratives of wonder, enchantment and spirituality.
Linde De Vroey
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Regional and Temporal Differences in the Functionality of Facultative Vertebrate Scavenger Communities. [PDF]

open access: yesEcol Evol
We examined the functionality of vertebrate scavenger guilds on a regional and temporal scale using a dataset collected in protected areas in three regions in the Netherlands, characterised by the absence of large carnivores and obligate scavengers. Our results demonstrate that the functionality of scavenger communities is shaped by both regional and ...
van der Giessen I   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The role of social and political factors in the success of rewilding projects

open access: yesFrontiers in Conservation Science, 2023
The ecological aspects behind the success and failure of rewilding projects have been looked at in literature and case studies, but rarely have sociopolitical factors been included in these classifications.
Sarah Weber Hertel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enhancing monitoring of rewilding progress through wildlife tracking and remote sensing.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
Defaunation is a global threat to biodiversity that can be counteracted through trophic rewilding, a restoration strategy that promotes self-regulating ecosystems through active reintroductions or passive management.
Julia Carolina Mata   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating wolf abundance with unverified methods

open access: yesAcademia Biology, 2023
Wildlife abundance can be very difficult to estimate, especially for rare and elusive species, such as wolves. Over nearly a century, wolf scientists have developed methods for estimating abundance across large areas, which involve marked ...
Adrian Treves   +1 more
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