Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

WJ Ripple, TM Newsome, C Wolf, R Dirzo… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
Large wild herbivores are crucial to ecosystems and human societies. We highlight the 74
largest terrestrial herbivore species on Earth (body mass≥ 100 kg), the threats they face …

Combining paleo-data and modern exclosure experiments to assess the impact of megafauna extinctions on woody vegetation

ES Bakker, JL Gill, CN Johnson… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Until recently in Earth history, very large herbivores (mammoths, ground sloths, diprotodons,
and many others) occurred in most of the World's terrestrial ecosystems, but the majority …

Landscape-scale benefits of protected areas for tropical biodiversity

JF Brodie, J Mohd-Azlan, C Chen, OR Wearn… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The United Nations recently agreed to major expansions of global protected areas
(PAs) to slow biodiversity declines. However, although reserves often reduce habitat loss …

Determinants of uncertainty in wildlife responses to human disturbance

Z Tablado, L Jenni - Biological Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Outdoor recreation is increasing in intensity and space. Areas previously inaccessible are
now being visited by ever‐growing numbers of people, which increases human–wildlife …

Challenges and science-based implications for modern management and conservation of European ungulate populations

M Apollonio, VV Belkin, J Borkowski, OI Borodin… - Mammal research, 2017 - Springer
Wildlife management systems face growing challenges to cope with increasingly complex
interactions between wildlife populations, the environment and human activities. In this …

Widespread habitat for Europe's largest herbivores, but poor connectivity limits recolonization

H Bluhm, TA Diserens, T Engleder… - Diversity and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Several large‐mammal species in Europe have recovered and recolonized parts of their
historical ranges. Knowing where suitable habitat exists, and thus where range expansions …

Ecological marginalization is widespread and increases extinction risk in mammals

JA Britnell, Y Zhu, GIH Kerley… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Human land-use results in widespread range change across taxa. Anthropogenic pressures
can result in species' realized niches expanding, shifting, or contracting. Marginalization …

Framing the relationship between people and nature in the context of European conservation

JDC Linnell, P Kaczensky… - Conservation …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A key controversy in conservation is the framing of the relationship between people and
nature. The extent to which the realms of nature and human culture are viewed as separate …

EU-Forest, a high-resolution tree occurrence dataset for Europe

A Mauri, G Strona, J San-Miguel-Ayanz - Scientific data, 2017 - nature.com
We present EU-Forest, a dataset that integrates and extends by almost one order of
magnitude the publicly available information on European tree species distribution. The core …

European bison as a refugee species? Evidence from isotopic data on Early Holocene bison and other large herbivores in northern Europe

H Bocherens, E Hofman-Kamińska, DG Drucker… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
According to the refugee species concept, increasing replacement of open steppe by forest
cover after the last glacial period and human pressure had together forced European bison …