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Invertebrate responses to rewilding: a monitoring framework for practitioners

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Cook P, Law A, Pattison Z, WallisDeVries MF & Willby NJ (2024) Invertebrate responses to rewilding: a monitoring framework for practitioners. Restoration Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14195

Abstract
Rewilding presents a unique opportunity to better understand the processes influencing ecological communities and how they function. Although empirical evidence on the effects of rewilding is growing rapidly, knowledge gain is unbalanced, particularly for invertebrates, despite this group representing a large proportion of biodiversity and being fundamental to key ecosystem processes. Here, we advocate for more targeted systematic monitoring and experimental research, providing a site-based framework for practitioners to evaluate project effects on invertebrate biodiversity. This framework utilizes taxonomic indicators of change, representative of processes important to ecosystem functioning. Implementation of this framework and the associated opportunities and challenges for practitioners are discussed. Adopting this framework would broaden the taxonomic groups and ecosystem processes evaluated by rewilding projects, transform the sector from opinion-based to evidence-based, and help address some of the most pressing ecological and conservation questions of the twenty-first century.

Keywords
evidence-based conservation; framework; invertebrates; monitoring; rewilding

Journal
Restoration Ecology: Volume 32, Issue 5

StatusPublished
Publication date31/07/2024
Publication date online28/05/2024
Date accepted by journal09/05/2024
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/36217
PublisherWiley
ISSN1061-2971
eISSN1526-100X

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Mr Patrick Cook

Mr Patrick Cook

PhD Researcher, Biological and Environmental Sciences

Dr Alan Law

Dr Alan Law

Lecturer in Nature-Based Solutions, Biological and Environmental Sciences

Dr Zarah Pattison

Dr Zarah Pattison

Senior Lecturer in Plant Sciences, Biological and Environmental Sciences

Professor Nigel Willby

Professor Nigel Willby

Professor & Associate Dean of Research, Biological and Environmental Sciences

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