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Transforming forest management through rewilding: Enhancing biodiversity, resilience, and biosphere sustainability under global change

LWLanhui WangFWFangli WeiTTTorbern TagessonZFZhongxiang FangJSJens‐Christian Svenning

Lund University · Aarhus University · +6 more institutions

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Abstract

Forests are crucial for biodiversity, climate stability, and human well-being, yet rising pressures from climate change and conventional forestry practices threaten their resilience and sustainability. Approximately 30% of global forests are managed intensively, often as monoculture plantations, compromising biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, and ecosystem stability. Here, we propose integrating rewilding-inspired forestry as a transformative approach to restore ecosystem processes and resilience. By emphasizing trophic complexity, natural disturbances, and species dispersal, rewilding-inspired forestry can enhance biodiversity, increase resilient carbon storage, and improve social-ecological…

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  • Biosphere
  • Resilience (materials science)
  • Sustainability
  • Biodiversity
  • Environmental resource management
  • Climate change
  • Environmental planning
  • Geography
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