Pleistocene Rewilding: An Optimistic Agenda for Twenty‐First Century Conservation

Large vertebrates are strong interactors in food webs, yet they were lost from most ecosystems after the dispersal of modern humans from Africa and Eurasia. We call for restoration of missing ecological functions and evolutionary potential of lost North American megafauna using extant conspecifics a...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American naturalist 2006-11, Vol.168 (5), p.660-681
Hauptverfasser:	Josh Donlan, C., Berger, Joel, Bock, Carl E., Bock, Jane H., Burney, David A., Estes, James A., Foreman, Dave, Martin, Paul S., Roemer, Gary W., Smith, Felisa A., Soulé, Michael E., Greene, Harry W.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animals Biodiversity conservation Cheetahs Conservation biology Conservation of Natural Resources - economics Conservation of Natural Resources - methods Ecological history Ecosystem Elephantidae Environmental conservation Environmental restoration Extinct species Food Chain Habitat conservation Lions North America Predation Species Species extinction Species Specificity Vertebrates Wildlife conservation
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