Impacts of large herbivores on terrestrial ecosystems

RM Pringle, JO Abraham, TM Anderson, TC Coverdale… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Large herbivores play unique ecological roles and are disproportionately imperiled by
human activity. As many wild populations dwindle towards extinction, and as interest grows …

Reversing defaunation: restoring species in a changing world

PJ Seddon, CJ Griffiths, PS Soorae, DP Armstrong - Science, 2014 - science.org
The rate of biodiversity loss is not slowing despite global commitments, and the depletion of
animal species can reduce the stability of ecological communities. Despite this continued …

Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

JC Svenning, PBM Pedersen, CJ Donlan… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - pnas.org
Trophic rewilding is an ecological restoration strategy that uses species introductions to
restore top-down trophic interactions and associated trophic cascades to promote self …

Advances in restoration ecology: rising to the challenges of the coming decades

MP Perring, RJ Standish, JN Price, MD Craig… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Simultaneous environmental changes challenge biodiversity persistence and human
wellbeing. The science and practice of restoration ecology, in collaboration with other …

Half-Earth or Whole Earth? Radical ideas for conservation, and their implications

B Büscher, R Fletcher, D Brockington, C Sandbrook… - Oryx, 2017 - cambridge.org
We question whether the increasingly popular, radical idea of turning half the Earth into a
network of protected areas is either feasible or just. We argue that this Half-Earth plan would …

Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change

C Sandom, S Faurby, B Sandel… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The late Quaternary megafauna extinction was a severe global-scale event. Two factors,
climate change and modern humans, have received broad support as the primary drivers …

Functional traits, convergent evolution, and periodic tables of niches

KO Winemiller, DB Fitzgerald, LM Bower… - Ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology is often said to lack general theories sufficiently predictive for applications. Here, we
examine the concept of a periodic table of niches and feasibility of niche classification …

[LIVRO][B] Sustainability principles and practice

M Robertson - 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of
the interdisciplinary field of sustainability. The focus is on furnishing solutions and equip** …

Rewilding: science, practice, and politics

J Lorimer, C Sandom, P Jepson… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Rewilding is being promoted as an ambitious alternative to current approaches to nature
conservation. Interest is growing in popular and scientific literatures, and rewilding is the …

Rethinking rewilding

D Jørgensen - Geoforum, 2015 - Elsevier
The term 'rewilding'sounds as if it should have a straightforward meaning 'to make wild
again'. But in truth the term has a complex history and a host of meanings have been …