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Theme issue ‘Trophic rewilding: consequences for ecosystems under global change’ organized and edited by Elisabeth S. Bakker and Jens-Christian Svenning

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Ecosystems world-wide are increasingly affected by human-induced global change, including over-exploitation of living systems, temperature rise, eutrophication and exotic species proliferation, resulting in a biodiversity crisis. Furthermore, human societies increasingly experience disasters such as flooding events and wildfires. Therefore, new thinking is needed to address these pressing societal and biodiversity conservation challenges. Trophic rewilding could potentially offer such a new way of thinking, as it is a future-oriented and dynamic restoration strategy. Trophic rewilding uses species introductions to restore top-down trophic interactions where these are currently missing and advocates new ways of land management. As such trophic rewilding can contribute to finding solutions for flooding, drought and wildfire problems, and can provide climate change mitigation, mitigation of invasive species and mitigation of biodiversity decline. This theme issue evaluates how trophic rewilding interacts with the major global changes to affect ecosystems.

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INTRODUCTION

Introduction
Trophic rewilding: impact on ecosystems under global change
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20170432

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0432

ARTICLES

Review article
Trophic rewilding as a climate change mitigation strategy?
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20170440

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0440

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Review article
Effects of large herbivores on tundra vegetation in a changing climate, and implications for rewilding
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20170437

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0437

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Review article
Can trophic rewilding reduce the impact of fire in a more flammable world?
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20170443

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0443

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Opinion piece
Island rewilding with giant tortoises in an era of climate change
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20170442

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0442

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Review article
Hope and caution: rewilding to mitigate the impacts of biological invasions
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20180127

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0127

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Research article
Unintentional rewilding: lessons for trophic rewilding from other forms of species introductions
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20170445

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0445

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Review article
Risks and opportunities of trophic rewilding for arthropod communities
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20170441

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0441

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Review article
Soil biological responses to, and feedbacks on, trophic rewilding
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20170448

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0448

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Fertilizing riparian forests: nutrient repletion across ecotones with trophic rewilding
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20170439

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0439

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Research article
Rewilding wetlands: beaver as agents of within-habitat heterogeneity and the responses of contrasting biota
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20170444

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0444

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Estimating interaction credit for trophic rewilding in tropical forests
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20170435

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0435

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Using species distribution modelling to determine opportunities for trophic rewilding under future scenarios of climate change
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20170446

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0446

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Research article
Governing with nature: a European perspective on putting rewilding principles into practice
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20170434

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0434

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Opinion piece
Perspectives on grassland conservation efforts: should we rewild to the past or conserve for the future?
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20170438

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0438

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Research article
Measuring rewilding progress
Published:22 October 2018Article ID:20170433

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0433

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05 December 2018
Volume 373Issue 1761

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Professor John Pickett CBE FRS

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