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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
Status | Published |
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Publication date | 31/07/2024 |
Publication date online | 28/05/2024 |
Date accepted by journal | 09/05/2024 |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/36217 |
Publisher | Wiley |
ISSN | 1061-2971 |
eISSN | 1526-100X |
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