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SUBMITTER: Falcon W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6231067 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Falcón Wilfredo W Hansen Dennis M DM
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20181022 1761
Replacing recently extinct endemic giant tortoises with extant, functional analogues provide the perhaps best examples of island rewilding to date. Yet, an efficient future application of this conservation action is challenging in an era of climate change. We here present and discuss a conceptual framework that can serve as a roadmap for the study and application of tortoise rewilding in an uncertain future. We focus on three main ecological functions mediated by giant tortoises, namely herbivor ...[more]