Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions

OJ Schmitz, M Sylvén, TB Atwood, ES Bakker… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Natural climate solutions are being advanced to arrest climate warming by protecting and
enhancing carbon capture and storage in plants, soils and sediments in ecosystems. These …

Trophic rewilding as a restoration approach under emerging novel biosphere conditions

JC Svenning, R Buitenwerf, E Le Roux - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Rewilding is a restoration approach that aims to promote self-regulating complex
ecosystems by restoring non-human ecological processes while reducing human control …

Recent Sociocultural Changes Reverse the Long‐Term Trend of Declining Habitat Availability for Large Wild Mammals in Europe

M Davoli, T Kuemmerle, S Monsarrat… - Diversity and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim People have strongly influenced the biosphere for millennia, but how their increasing
activities have shaped wildlife distribution is incompletely understood. We examined how …

Living with wildlife: a review of advances in social-ecological analysis across landscapes

V Hull, X Bian, DJ Episcopio-Sturgeon, CJ Rivera… - Landscape …, 2023 - Springer
Context An exciting research frontier is the intersection of wildlife ecology and social
science. Associated research is embracing a spatial approach to integrating ecological and …

Symbols, wolves and conflicts

F Almarcha, T Ferrández, JV López-Bao - Biological Conservation, 2022 - Elsevier
From an anthropological perspective, the wolf (Canis lupus) is considered an animal with
multiple symbolic meanings. Every social sector uses particular symbolic meanings to …

Who must adapt to whom? Contested discourses on human–wolf coexistence and their impact on policy in Spain

HL Pettersson, G Holmes, CH Quinn, SM Sait… - People and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging nature restoration agendas are increasing the pressure on rural communities to
coexist with expanding wildlife, including large carnivores. There are different interpretations …

Animating the Carbon cycle: How wildlife conservation can be a key to mitigate climate change

OJ Schmitz, M Sylvén - Environment: Science and Policy for …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Arresting climate change is among the most formidable global challenges facing humankind
today. The 1.5–2 C or more rise in mean global temperature—projected to occur if net global …

The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene

JC Svenning, RT Lemoine, J Bergman… - Cambridge Prisms …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Across the last~ 50,000 years (the late Quaternary) terrestrial vertebrate faunas have
experienced severe losses of large species (megafauna), with most extinctions occurring in …

Navigating ecological novelty towards planetary stewardship: challenges and opportunities in biodiversity dynamics in a transforming biosphere

JC Svenning, MA McGeoch… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human-induced global changes, including anthropogenic climate change, biotic
globalization, trophic downgrading and pervasive land-use intensification, are transforming …

[HTML][HTML] Uncovering the full potential of attitude measures in navigating human-wolf coexistence

S Capitain, C Lamm, S Marshall-Pescini… - Biological Conservation, 2025 - Elsevier
Attitudes towards wolves are important indicators of what wolf presence means to people
and whether they lean towards support or opposition. Over the past 50 years, attitude …