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Context matters when rewilding for climate change

Mary K. Burak, Kristy M. Ferraro, Kaggie Orrick, Nathalie R. Sommer, Diego Ellis‐Soto, Oswald J. Schmitz

People and Nature · 2024

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Abstract There is a cross‐sectoral push among conservationists to simultaneously mitigate biodiversity loss and climate change, especially as the latter increasingly threatens the former. Growing evidence demonstrates that animals can have substantial impacts on carbon cycling. As such, there are increasing calls to use animal conservation and rewilding to dually overcome biodiversity loss and mitigate climate change. Specifically, trophic rewilding—which involves restoring intact animal communities, functional roles and trophic structure within food webs, and natural ecosystem processes—utilizes a rewilding framework to simultaneously support biodiversity conservation and carbon capture and storage. Trophic rewilding is a complex conservation approach to mitigating climate change, involvi

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1002/pan3.10609
Catalogue ID
SNmohi6ljp-pyl5dk
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