The role of large wild animals in climate change mitigation and adaptation

Surface ocean microbiota determine cloud precursors

(2021) Karine Sellegri et al.   Scientific Reports

Recent changes in mountain birch forest structure and understory vegetation depend on the seasonal timing of reindeer grazing

(2021) Sari Stark et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Nature-based solutions can help cool the planet — if we act now

(2021) Cécile A. J. Girardin et al.   NATURE

Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter

(2021) Emanuele Lugato et al.   Nature Geoscience

Plant- or microbial-derived? A review on the molecular composition of stabilized soil organic matter

(2021) Gerrit Angst et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant rhizodeposition: A key factor for soil organic matter formation in stable fractions

(2021) Sebastián H. Villarino et al.   Science Advances

A dynamic view of seagrass meadows in the wake of successful green turtle conservation

(2021) Marjolijn J. A. Christianen et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Conservation with elevated elephant densities sequesters carbon in soils despite losses of woody biomass

(2021) Alexandra Sandhage‐Hofmann et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of large herbivores on fire regimes and wildfire mitigation

(2021) Julia Rouet‐Leduc et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Opinion: We need biosphere stewardship that protects carbon sinks and builds resilience

(2021) Johan Rockström et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements

(2021) Matthew S. Savoca et al.   NATURE

Can large herbivores enhance ecosystem carbon persistence?

(2021) Jeppe A. Kristensen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ecosystem effects of the world’s largest invasive animal

(2020) Jonathan B. Shurin et al.   ECOLOGY

Grasses continue to trump trees at soil carbon sequestration following herbivore exclusion in a semiarid African savanna

(2020) Benjamin J. Wigley et al.   ECOLOGY

Nutrient availability controls the impact of mammalian herbivores on soil carbon and nitrogen pools in grasslands

(2020) Judith Sitters et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effect of reduced grazing pressure on sediment and nutrient yields in savanna rangeland streams draining to the Great Barrier Reef

(2020) Jack Koci et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Benthic-based contributions to climate change mitigation and adaptation

(2020) Martin Solan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Pleistocene Arctic megafaunal ecological engineering as a natural climate solution?

(2020) Marc Macias-Fauria et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Trophic rewilding presents regionally specific opportunities for mitigating climate change

(2020) Christopher J. Sandom et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges

(2020) Nathalie Seddon et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

National mitigation potential from natural climate solutions in the tropics

(2020) Bronson W. Griscom et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rethinking megafauna

(2020) Marcos Moleón et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Animals as Agents in Fire Regimes

(2020) Claire N. Foster et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Downsizing of animal communities triggers stronger functional than structural decay in seed-dispersal networks

(2020) Isabel Donoso et al.   Nature Communications

Increasing anthropogenic methane emissions arise equally from agricultural and fossil fuel sources

(2020) R B Jackson et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Herbivore Impacts on Carbon Cycling in Boreal Forests

(2020) Shawn J. Leroux et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Neglected Belowground Dimension of Plant Dominance

(2020) Gianluigi Ottaviani et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Food Webs and Ecosystems: Linking Species Interactions to the Carbon Cycle

(2020) Oswald J. Schmitz et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Mapping the effectiveness of nature‐based solutions for climate change adaptation

(2020) Alexandre Chausson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Megafauna extinctions have reduced biotic connectivity worldwide

(2020) Emilio Berti et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Integrated terrestrial-freshwater planning doubles conservation of tropical aquatic species

(2020) Cecília G. Leal et al.   SCIENCE

Frugivory underpins the nitrogen cycle

(2020) Nacho Villar et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A unifying framework for studying and managing climate-driven rates of ecological change

(2020) John W. Williams et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Experimental rewilding enhances grassland functional composition and pollinator habitat use

(2019) Pablo Garrido et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Elephants limit aboveground carbon gains in African savannas

(2019) Andrew B. Davies et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Top-down limits on prey populations may be more severe in larger prey species, despite having fewer predators

(2019) Elizabeth le Roux et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Food web rewiring in a changing world

(2019) Timothy J. Bartley et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Synthesizing the effects of large, wild herbivore exclusion on ecosystem function

(2019) Elizabeth S. Forbes et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon

(2019) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Decadal trends in the ocean carbon sink

(2019) Tim DeVries et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant root-shoot biomass allocation over diverse biomes: A global synthesis

(2019) Yulin Qi et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

The Role of Forest Elephants in Shaping Tropical Forest–Savanna Coexistence

(2019) Anabelle W. Cardoso et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Carbon stocks in central African forests enhanced by elephant disturbance

(2019) Fabio Berzaghi et al.   Nature Geoscience

Global fire emissions buffered by the production of pyrogenic carbon

(2019) Matthew W. Jones et al.   Nature Geoscience

Conceptualizing soil organic matter into particulate and mineral‐associated forms to address global change in the 21st century

(2019) Jocelyn M. Lavallee et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world

(2019) Stephanie Roe et al.   Nature Climate Change

Overfishing and the ecological impacts of extirpating large parrotfish from Caribbean coral reefs

(2019) Andrew A. Shantz et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Measuring the success of climate change adaptation and mitigation in terrestrial ecosystems

(2019) Michael D. Morecroft et al.   SCIENCE

Influence of dimethyl sulfide on the carbon cycle and biological production

(2018) Shanlin Wang et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Assessing the role of megafauna in tropical forest ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles - the potential of vegetation models

(2018) Fabio Berzaghi et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Grasslands may be more reliable carbon sinks than forests in California

(2018) Pawlok Dass et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Grazing enhances belowground carbon allocation, microbial biomass, and soil carbon in a subtropical grassland

(2018) Chris H. Wilson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The influence of a semi-arid sub-catchment on suspended sediments in the Mara River, Kenya

(2018) Christopher L. Dutton et al.   PLoS One

Global signal of top-down control of terrestrial plant communities by herbivores

(2018) Shihong Jia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The biomass distribution on Earth

(2018) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Organic matter loading by hippopotami causes subsidy overload resulting in downstream hypoxia and fish kills

(2018) Christopher L. Dutton et al.   Nature Communications

The mark of vegetation change on Earth’s surface energy balance

(2018) Gregory Duveiller et al.   Nature Communications

The Role of Herbivory in Structuring Tropical Seagrass Ecosystem Service Delivery

(2018) Abigail L. Scott et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The large mean body size of mammalian herbivores explains the productivity paradox during the Last Glacial Maximum

(2018) Dan Zhu et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems

(2018) James E. M. Watson et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The persistence of beaver-induced geomorphic heterogeneity and organic carbon stock in river corridors

(2018) DeAnna Laurel et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Herbivore Effects on Ecosystem Process Rates in a Low-Productive System

(2018) Maria Tuomi et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Global Emergence of Anthropogenic Climate Change in Fire Weather Indices

(2018) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Trophic rewilding as a climate change mitigation strategy?

(2018) Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Island rewilding with giant tortoises in an era of climate change

(2018) Wilfredo Falcón et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Trophic rewilding: impact on ecosystems under global change

(2018) Elisabeth S. Bakker et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Measuring rewilding progress

(2018) Aurora Torres et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Can trophic rewilding reduce the impact of fire in a more flammable world?

(2018) Christopher N. Johnson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Soil biological responses to, and feedbacks on, trophic rewilding

(2018) W. S. Andriuzzi et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2018) Johan Olofsson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle

(2018) Oswald J. Schmitz et al.   SCIENCE

Clarifying the role of coastal and marine systems in climate mitigation

(2017) Jennifer Howard et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Responses of belowground communities to large aboveground herbivores: Meta-analysis reveals biome-dependent patterns and critical research gaps

(2017) Walter S. Andriuzzi et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Natural climate solutions

(2017) Bronson W. Griscom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Organic carbon burial in global lakes and reservoirs

(2017) Raquel Mendonça et al.   Nature Communications

Identifying ambassador species for conservation marketing

(2017) E.A. Macdonald et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Megafaunal Impacts on Structure and Function of Ocean Ecosystems

(2016) James A. Estes et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Top-down control of methane emission and nitrogen cycling by waterfowl

(2016) R. Scott Winton et al.   ECOLOGY

The Importance of Coprophagous Macrodetritivores for the Maintenance of Vegetation Heterogeneity in an African Savannah

(2016) Ruth A. Howison et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Reindeer grazing increases summer albedo by reducing shrub abundance in Arctic tundra

(2016) Mariska te Beest et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Substantial role of macroalgae in marine carbon sequestration

(2016) Dorte Krause-Jensen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Competing consumers: contrasting the patterns and impacts of fire and mammalian herbivory in Africa

(2016) Sally Archibald et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

The Power of Three: Coral Reefs, Seagrasses and Mangroves Protect Coastal Regions and Increase Their Resilience

(2016) Greg Guannel et al.   PLoS One

Long-Term Dynamics and Hotspots of Change in a Desert Grassland Plant Community

(2015) Scott L. Collins et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Megafaunal influences on tree recruitment in African equatorial forests

(2015) J. Terborgh et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Megafauna extinction, tree species range reduction, and carbon storage in Amazonian forests

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Assessing the role of large herbivores in the structuring and functioning of freshwater and marine angiosperm ecosystems

(2015) Elisabeth S. Bakker et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Comparison of marine macrophytes for their contributions to blue carbon sequestration

(2015) Stacey M. Trevathan-Tackett et al.   ECOLOGY

Mammals, freshwater reference states, and the mitigation of climate change

(2015) Brian Moss   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

The importance of considering animal body mass in IPCC greenhouse inventories and the underappreciated role of wild herbivores

(2015) Felisa A. Smith et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A framework for the resilience of seagrass ecosystems

(2015) Richard K.F. Unsworth et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Amplified Arctic warming by phytoplankton under greenhouse warming

(2015) Jong-Yeon Park et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Exploring the influence of ancient and historic megaherbivore extirpations on the global methane budget

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

Variable impact of late-Quaternary megafaunal extinction in causing ecological state shifts in North and South America

(2015) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global nutrient transport in a world of giants

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty 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

(2015) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2015) Elisabeth S. Bakker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Photographic evidence of fire-induced shifts from dwarf-shrub- to grass-dominated vegetation in Nama-Karoo

(2015) Justin Christopher Okes du Toit et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck et al.   Nature Communications

Predators help protect carbon stocks in blue carbon ecosystems

(2015) Trisha B. Atwood et al.   Nature Climate Change

Natural aerosols explain seasonal and spatial patterns of Southern Ocean cloud albedo

(2015) D. T. McCoy et al.   Science Advances

Beaver-mediated methane emission: The effects of population growth in Eurasia and the Americas

(2014) Colin J. Whitfield et al.   AMBIO

Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales

(2014) Anke Stein et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Whales as marine ecosystem engineers

(2014) Joe Roman et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Methane dynamics regulated by microbial community response to permafrost thaw

(2014) Carmody K. McCalley et al.   NATURE

High herbivore density associated with vegetation diversity in interglacial ecosystems

(2014) C. J. Sandom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Changing dynamics of Caribbean reef carbonate budgets: emergence of reef bioeroders as critical controls on present and future reef growth potential

(2014) C. T. Perry et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Emergent Global Patterns of Ecosystem Structure and Function from a Mechanistic General Ecosystem Model

(2014) Michael B. J. Harfoot et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Preparing for and managing change: climate adaptation for biodiversity and ecosystems

(2013) Bruce A Stein et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Lateral Diffusion of Nutrients by Mammalian Herbivores in Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2013) Adam Wolf et al.   PLoS One

Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment

(2013) T. C. Bond et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Do trophic cascades affect the storage and flux of atmospheric carbon? An analysis of sea otters and kelp forests

(2012) Christopher C Wilmers et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Introduced annual grass increases regional fire activity across the arid western USA (1980-2009)

(2012) Jennifer K. Balch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The ecological importance of intact top-predator populations: a synthesis of 15 years of research in a seagrass ecosystem

(2012) Michael. R. Heithaus et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Mammoth steppe: a high-productivity phenomenon

(2012) S.A. Zimov et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems: do browsing and grazing herbivores matter?

(2011) Andrew J. Tanentzap et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A blueprint for blue carbon: toward an improved understanding of the role of vegetated coastal habitats in sequestering CO2

(2011) Elizabeth Mcleod et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Southern Ocean phytoplankton increases cloud albedo and reduces precipitation

(2011) Olaf Krüger et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Monitoring and evaluating large-scale, ‘open-ended’ habitat creation projects: A journey rather than a destination

(2011) Francine M.R. Hughes et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Marine megaherbivore grazing may increase seagrass tolerance to high nutrient loads

(2011) Marjolijn J. A. Christianen et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The case against climate regulation via oceanic phytoplankton sulphur emissions

(2011) P. K. Quinn et al.   NATURE

The resource availability hypothesis revisited: a meta-analysis

(2010) María-José Endara et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Grazing-induced reduction of natural nitrous oxide release from continental steppe

(2010) Benjamin Wolf et al.   NATURE

Iron defecation by sperm whales stimulates carbon export in the Southern Ocean

(2010) T. J. Lavery et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rainforest Aerosols as Biogenic Nuclei of Clouds and Precipitation in the Amazon

(2010) U. Poschl et al.   SCIENCE

What limits fire? An examination of drivers of burnt area in Southern Africa

(2009) SALLY ARCHIBALD et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Large herbivores facilitate savanna tree establishment via diverse and indirect pathways

(2009) Jacob R. Goheen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Herbivores, resources and risks: alternating regulation along primary environmental gradients in savannas

(2009) J. Grant C. Hopcraft et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Spatial and temporal variations in active layer thawing and their implication on runoff generation in peat-covered permafrost terrain

(2009) Nicole Wright et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

(2008) William J. Bond   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics