By Henrique M. Pereira, Laetitia M. Navarro
Some ecu lands were steadily alleviated of human pressures, really conventional agriculture in distant components. This e-book proposes that this land abandonment will be visible as a chance to revive typical ecosystems through rewilding. We outline rewilding because the passive administration of ecological successions having in brain the long term objective of restoring common surroundings methods. The booklet goals at introducing the concept that of rewilding to scientists, scholars and practitioners. the 1st half provides the speculation of rewilding within the ecu context. the second one a part of the booklet at once addresses the hyperlink among rewilding, biodiversity, and habitats. The 3rd and final half is devoted to sensible facets of the implementation of rewilding as a land administration alternative. We think that this booklet will either set the root for destiny examine on rewilding and support practitioners take into consideration how rewilding can ensue in components below their management.
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2005). Mountain systems. Millenium ecosystem assessment. Ecosystems and human well-being: Current state and trends (pp. 681–716). Washington: Island Press. , Radeloff, V. , & Kruhlov, I. (2008). Cross-border comparison of post-socialist farmland abandonment in the Carpathians. Ecosystems, 11, 614–628. 1 Rewilding Abandoned Landscapes in Europe 21 Kuiters, A. , & Slim, P. A. (2003). Tree colonisation of abandoned arable land after 27 years of horse-grazing: The role of bramble as a facilitator of oak wood regeneration.
In this context, wilderness represents one extreme of the gradient of human presence and impact across the landscape. While still retaining an aesthetical element and an existence value among growing numbers of enthusiasts in the Western industrialized countries, wilderness also refers to the biophysical reality of natural processes, ecological communities, and the resulting ecosystems that develop in the absence of human management. Therefore, wilderness is of major importance both for research and management in the areas of ecosystem services (ES) (Naidoo et al.
2000). We calculate the similarity of current land cover to PNV by estimating the probability that the CORINE 2000 land cover class in any one location in Europe belongs to the local PNV type (Bohn et al. 2000). 1. The resulting map was combined with the grazing density data from Food and Agriculture Organization, which was previously linear transformed to a scale from 0 to 1, where 1 represents a density of 20 heads/km2 or more. We used 32 S. Ceaușu et al. Fig. 1 Wilderness areas according to four metrics.