Rewilding should be central to global restoration efforts

JC Svenning - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
Rewilding should be central to the massive restoration efforts needed to overcome the
global biodiversity crisis and enhancing the biosphere's capacity to mitigate climate change …

Will borealization of Arctic tundra herbivore communities be driven by climate warming or vegetation change?

JDM Speed, JA Chimal‐Ballesteros… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Poleward shifts in species distributions are expected and frequently observed with a
warming climate. In Arctic ecosystems, the strong warming trends are associated with …

Rapid Anthropocene realignment of allometric scaling rules

L Santini, NJB Isaac - Ecology Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The negative relationship between body size and population density in mammals is often
interpreted as resulting from energetic constraints. In a global change scenario, however …

Extinctions have strongly reduced the mammalian consumption of primary productivity

RØ Pedersen, S Faurby, JC Svenning - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Herbivorous mammals are important for natural ecosystems even today, but how much
stronger would there effects be without human-linked extinctions and extirpations? The …