ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2018
Trophic rewilding as a climate change mitigation strategy?
Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Economics of rewilding.Ambio · 2024Pooled it
- Open habitats and species differences shape space use in semi-feral cattle and horses across Danish rewilding sites.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2026Article
- Does re-wilding contribute to biodiversity conservation in Mediterranean cultural landscapes?Ambio · 2026Article
- De-extinction of the Northern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni).The Journal of reproduction and development · 2026Review
- Dracula's Menagerie Reloaded: Assessing the Relative Roles of Habitat and Interspecific Interactions in an Intact Mammalian Assemblage Using Structural Equation Modeling.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Semi-Feral Horse Grazing Benefits the Grassland Diversity of Flowering Plants Including a Pollinator-Promoting Indicator Species.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- De-extinction beyond species: Restoring ecosystem functionality through large herbivore rewilding.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2025Article
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- Assessing contemporary Arctic habitat availability for a woolly mammoth proxy.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2024Review
- Mammal traits and soil biogeochemistry: Functional diversity relates to composition of soil organic matter.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Loss of grazing by large mammalian herbivores can destabilize the soil carbon pool.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Carcass and Offal Yields of Farmed Common Eland (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Financing conservation by valuing carbon services produced by wild animals.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Actions to halt biodiversity loss generally benefit the climate.Global change biology · 2022Review
- What evidence exists on the impacts of large herbivores on climate change? A systematic map protocol.Environmental evidence · 2022Article
- Restoring a butterfly hot spot by large ungulates refaunation: the case of the Milovice military training range, Czech Republic.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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- Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Trophic rewilding presents regionally specific opportunities for mitigating climate change.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
The loss of megafauna at the terminal Pleistocene has been linked to a wide range of Earth-system-level changes, such as altered greenhouse gas budgets, fire regimes and biome-level vegetation changes. Given these influences and feedbacks, might part of the solution for mitigating anthropogenic climate change lie in the restoration of extant megafauna to ecosystems? Here, we explore the potential role of trophic rewilding on Earth's climate system. We first provide a novel synthesis of the various ways that megafauna interact with the major drivers of anthropogenic climate change, including greenhouse gas storage and emission, aerosols and albedo. We then explore the role of rewilding as a mitigation tool at two scales: (i) current and near-future opportunities for national or regional climate change mitigation portfolios, and (ii) more radical opportunities at the global scale. Finally, we identify major knowledge gaps that complicate the complete characterization of rewilding as a climate change mitigation strategy. Our perspective is urgent since we are losing the Earth's last remaining megafauna, and with it a potential option to address climate change.This article is part of the theme issue 'Trophic rewilding: consequences for ecosystems under global change'.
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