Authors:
Donlan, C.J. et al.
Publication Date:
2006
Abstract/Summary:
Large vertebrates are strong interactors in food webs, yet they were lost from most ecosystems after the dispersal of modern humans from Africa and Eurasia. We call for restoration of missing ecological functions and evolutionary potential of lost North American megafauna using extant conspecifics and related taxa. We refer to this restoration as Pleistocene rewilding; it is conceived as carefully managed ecosystem manipulations whereby costs and benefits are objectively addressed on a case-by-case and locality-by-locality basis.
Resource Type:
Peer-reviewed Article
Source:
The American Naturalist
Link:
http://eebweb.arizona.edu/Courses/Ecol406R_506R/DonlanEA-2006_AmNat_PleistoceneRewild.pdf