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Measuring rewilding progress

FILONE TECNOLOGICO	TEMA
produzione e cattura

RIASSUNTO

Rewilding is emerging as a promising restoration strategy to enhance the conservation status of biodiversity and promote self-regulating ecosystems while re-engaging people with nature. Overcoming the challenges in monitoring and reporting rewilding projects would improve its practical implementation and maximize its conservation and restoration outcomes. Here, we present a novel approach for measuring and monitoring progress in rewilding that focuses on the ecological attributes of rewilding. We devised a bi-dimensional framework for assessing the recovery of processes and their natural dynamics through (i) decreasing human forcing on ecological processes and (ii) increasing ecological integrity of ecosystems. The rewilding assessment framework incorporates the reduction of material inputs and outputs associated with human management, as well as the restoration of natural stochasticity and disturbance regimes, landscape connectivity and trophic complexity. Furthermore, we provide a list of potential activities for increasing the ecological integrity after reviewing the evidence for the effectiveness of common restoration actions. For illustration purposes, we apply the framework to three flagship restoration projects in the Netherlands, Switzerland and Argentina. This approach has the potential to broaden the scope of rewilding projects, facilitate sound decision-making and connect the science and practice of rewilding.

This article is part of the theme issue ‘Trophic rewilding: consequences for ecosystems under global change’.

DATA

Data di pubblicazione: 22/10/2018

AUTORI

TORRES AURORA
FERNANDEZ NESTOR
ZU ERMGASSEN SOPHUS
HELMER WOUTER
REVILLA ELOY
SAAVEDRA DELI
PERINO ANDREA
MIMET ANNE
REY-BENAYAS JOSE M
SELVA NURIA
SCHEPERS FRANS
SVENNING JENS-CHRISTIAN
PEREIRA HENRIQUE M

ENTE DI AFFERENZA

Department Computational Landscape Ecology UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig 04318 Germany
Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO) Universidade do Porto 4485-661 Vairāo Portugal
GERMAN CTR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RSCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG LEIPZIG 04103 GERMANY
INST BIOLOGY MARTIN LUTHER UNIV HALLE WITTENBERG HALLE SAALE 06108 GERMANY
DURRELL INST CONSERVATION & ECOLOGY SCHOOL OF ANTHROPOLOGY & CONSERVATION UNIV KENT KENT CT2 7NZ UK
REWILDING EUR
DEPT CONSERVATION BIOLOGY ESTACION BIOLOGICA DE DONANA CSIC SEVILLE 41092 SPAIN
DEPT LIFE SCIENCES UNIV ALCALA 28805 ALCALA DE HENARES SPAIN
INST NATURE CONSERVATION POLISH ACAD SCIENCES
DEPT BIOSCIENCE CTR BIODIVERSITY DYNAMICS IN A CHANGING WORLD BIOCHANGE AARHUS UNIV NY MUNKEGADE 114 8000 AARHUS C DENMARK
SECTION FOR ECOINFORMATICS & BIODIVERSITY DEPT BIOSCIENCE AARHUS UNIV NY MUNKEGADE 114 8000 AARHUS C DENMARK

RIVISTA

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1761), 20170433

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