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Article Dans Une Revue Biological Reviews Année : 2024

Ecological restoration and rewilding: two approaches with complementary goals?

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As we enter the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) and address the urgent need to protect and restore ecosystems and their ecological functions at large scales, rewilding has been brought into the limelight. Interest in this discipline is thus increasing, with a large number of conceptual scientific papers published in recent years. Increasing enthusiasm has led to discussions and debates in the scientific community about the differences between ecological restoration and rewilding. The main goal of this review is to compare and clarify the position of each field. Our results show that despite some differences (e.g. top-down versus bottom-up and functional versus taxonomic approaches) and notably with distinct goalsrecovery of a defined historically determined target ecosystem versus recovery of natural processes with often no target endpointecological restoration and rewilding have a common scope: the recovery of ecosystems following anthropogenic degradation. The goals of ecological restoration and rewilding have expanded with the progress of each field. However, it is unclear whether there is a paradigm shift with ecological restoration moving towards rewilding or vice versa. We underline the complementarity in time and in space of ecological restoration and rewilding. To conclude, we argue that reconciliation of these two fields of nature conservation to ensure complementarity could create a synergy to achieve their common scope.
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Clémentine Mutillod, Élise Buisson, Gregory Mahy, Renaud Jaunatre, James M Bullock, et al.. Ecological restoration and rewilding: two approaches with complementary goals?. Biological Reviews, 2024, pp.1-17. ⟨10.1111/brv.13046⟩. ⟨hal-04454199⟩
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