ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2018
Can trophic rewilding reduce the impact of fire in a more flammable world?
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 15 papers.
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- Performative planning creates a values mismatch between wildfire plans and community needs.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Does re-wilding contribute to biodiversity conservation in Mediterranean cultural landscapes?Ambio · 2026Article
- What moves large grazers? Habitat preferences and complementing niches of large herbivores in a Danish trophic rewilding area.Environmental management · 2025Article
- De-extinction beyond species: Restoring ecosystem functionality through large herbivore rewilding.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2025Article
- Rewilding abandoned farmland has greater sustainability benefits than afforestation.npj biodiversity · 2023Article
- After the mammoths: The ecological legacy of late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2023Review
- Galapagos land iguanas as ecosystem engineers.PeerJ · 2022Article
- Functional traits of the world's late Quaternary large-bodied avian and mammalian herbivores.Scientific data · 2021Article
- Enhancing monitoring of rewilding progress through wildlife tracking and remote sensing.PloS one · 2021Article
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- Biodiversity Conservation and the Earth System: Mind the Gap.Trends in ecology & evolution · 2020Review
- Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Ecology of a widespread large omnivore,Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Trophic rewilding: impact on ecosystems under global change.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Can Air Quality Management Drive Sustainable Fuels Management at the Temperate Wildland-Urban Interface?Fire (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
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Abstract
Large vertebrates affect fire regimes in several ways: by consuming plant matter that would otherwise accumulate as fuel; by controlling and varying the density of vegetation; and by engineering the soil and litter layer. These processes can regulate the frequency, intensity and extent of fire. The evidence for these effects is strongest in environments with intermediate rainfall, warm temperatures and graminoid-dominated ground vegetation. Probably, extinction of Quaternary megafauna triggered increased biomass burning in many such environments. Recent and continuing declines of large vertebrates are likely to be significant contributors to changes in fire regimes and vegetation that are currently being experienced in many parts of the world. To date, rewilding projects that aim to restore large herbivores have paid little attention to the value of large animals in moderating fire regimes. Rewilding potentially offers a powerful tool for managing the risks of wildfire and its impacts on natural and human values.This article is part of the theme issue 'Trophic rewilding: consequences for ecosystems under global change'.
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