Rewilding Science

1/28 Paper 1: M. Soulé and R. Noss 1998 Rewilding and Biodiversity: Complementary Goals for Continental Conservation. Wild Earth. Soulé and Noss present traditional Biodiversity conservation and #Rewilding as two ideas that are both needed to stop the loss of biodiversity.

The full paper can be found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

The authors finish up by saying that livestock biodiversity has clear intrinsic value as cultural and social assets well as economic value as a genetic resource. There are many areas in Europe where full rewilding is not accepted but traditional livestock breeds may be. 11/11

Today we're looking at using cattle for restoring and maintaining holarctic landscapes in a paper that concludes a long-term study in northern England 1/ #rewilding #rewildingscience

The authors also looked at abundance of floodplain plant taxa, where the grass Cynodon dactylon was by far the most abundant. 7/

The large mammal community exhibited a high degree of interspecific overlap in the plant taxa utilised. Diet composition differed significantly across feeding guilds, although there was considerable cross-guild overlap 6/

Today we're looking at tropic effects of large herbivores in a paper that looks at reassembling of herbivore assemblages in Africa 1/ #rewilding #rewildingscience

The full paper can be found here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

and reintroduction science are already well established and underlined by a clear understanding of best practice. A new, poorly defined, term such as rewilding may be counter productive to achieving successful conservation action. 11/11

Today we're looking at definition of rewilding in a paper that looks at the implications of having multiple definitions and recommends using restoration instead 1/ #rewilding #rewildingscience