Pleistocene Arctic megafaunal ecological engineering as a natural climate solution?

Grounding nature-based climate solutions in sound biodiversity science

(2019) Nathalie Seddon et al.   Nature Climate Change

Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release

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Rewilding complex ecosystems

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Climate change drives widespread and rapid thermokarst development in very cold permafrost in the Canadian High Arctic

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Carbon stocks in central African forests enhanced by elephant disturbance

(2019) Fabio Berzaghi et al.   Nature Geoscience

Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against

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Recoverable Earth: a twenty-first century environmental narrative

(2018) Paul Jepson   AMBIO

Are the ghosts of nature’s past haunting ecology today?

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Minimizing polymerase biases in metabarcoding

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Trophic rewilding as a climate change mitigation strategy?

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Governing with nature: a European perspective on putting rewilding principles into practice

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Measuring rewilding progress

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Effects of large herbivores on tundra vegetation in a changing climate, and implications for rewilding

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Natural climate solutions

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Vegetation of Eurasia from the last glacial maximum to present: Key biogeographic patterns

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Rewilding Europe's large grazer community: how functionally diverse are the diets of European bison, cattle, and horses?

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Recently amplified arctic warming has contributed to a continual global warming trend

(2017) Jianbin Huang et al.   Nature Climate Change

Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

(2016) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Glacial legacies on interglacial vegetation at the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition in NE Asia

(2016) Ulrike Herzschuh et al.   Nature Communications

Rewilding: Science, Practice, and Politics

(2015) Jamie Lorimer et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Megafauna in the Earth system

(2015) Felisa A. Smith et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

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Observing a Catastrophic Thermokarst Lake Drainage in Northern Alaska

(2015) Benjamin M. Jones et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

Test of Martin’s overkill hypothesis using radiocarbon dates on extinct megafauna

(2015) Todd A. Surovell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

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Combining paleo-data and modern exclosure experiments to assess the impact of megafauna extinctions on woody vegetation

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Tracking the origins of Yakutian horses and the genetic basis for their fast adaptation to subarctic environments

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Where do the treeless tundra areas of northern highlands fit in the global biome system: toward an ecologically natural subdivision of the tundra biome

(2015) Risto Virtanen et al.   Ecology and Evolution

An Integrated System for Regional Environmental Monitoring and Management Based on Internet of Things

(2014) Shifeng Fang et al.   IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

(2014) Eske Willerslev et al.   NATURE

Ecological Structure of Recent and Last Glacial Mammalian Faunas in Northern Eurasia: The Case of Altai-Sayan Refugium

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High herbivore density associated with vegetation diversity in interglacial ecosystems

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Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change

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The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

(2014) S. L. Pimm et al.   SCIENCE

The legacy of the Pleistocene megafauna extinctions on nutrient availability in Amazonia

(2013) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   Nature Geoscience

DNA from soil mirrors plant taxonomic and growth form diversity

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Mammoth steppe: a high-productivity phenomenon

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Abrupt climate change in the Arctic

(2012) Carlos M. Duarte et al.   Nature Climate Change

RCP 8.5—A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions

(2011) Keywan Riahi et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

(2011) Eline D. Lorenzen et al.   NATURE

Biophysical feedbacks between the Pleistocene megafauna extinction and climate: The first human-induced global warming?

(2010) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

New insights on Arctic Quaternary climate variability from palaeo-records and numerical modelling

(2010) Martin Jakobsson et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Herbivores inhibit climate-driven shrub expansion on the tundra

(2009) JOHAN OLOFSSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The Late-Quaternary history of arctic and alpine plants

(2009) Hilary H. Birks   Plant Ecology & Diversity

High resilience in the Yamal-Nenets social–ecological system, West Siberian Arctic, Russia

(2009) Bruce C. Forbes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America

(2009) J. L. Gill et al.   SCIENCE

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE