Assessing the potential to restore historic grazing ecosystems with tortoise ecological replacements

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 690-700

  Griffiths, Christine J ^a,b,c   Zuël, Nicolas ^b,c   Jones, Carl G ^b,d   Ahamud, Zairabee ^b   Harris, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MAURITIAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION   (Mauritius)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecological replacements; Grazing; Invasional meltdown theory; Non native herbivore; Restoration; Rewilding; Taxon substitution; Tortoises

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ADULT; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EXTINCTION; GRAZING; HERBIVORE; KEYSTONE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PERSISTENCE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEED BANK; SEED PRODUCTION; SEEDLING; SUBSTITUTION; VEGETATION COVER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGICAL REPLACEMENTS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORRAJEO; GRAZING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERBÍVORO NO-NATIVO; HERBIVORY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIONAL MELTDOWN THEORY; MAURITIUS; METHODOLOGY; NON-NATIVE HERBIVORE; PHYSIOLOGY; REEMPLAZOS ECOLÓGICOS; RESTAURACIÓN; RESTITUTION; REWILDING; SUSTITUCIÓN DE TAXÓN; TAXON SUBSTITUTION; TEORÍA DE LA CRISIS INVASIVA; TORTOISES; TORTUGAS TERRESTRES; TURTLE; WEED;

ECOLOGICAL REPLACEMENTS; FORRAJEO; GRAZING; HERBÍVORO NO-NATIVO; INVASIONAL MELTDOWN THEORY; NON-NATIVE HERBIVORE; REEMPLAZOS ECOLÓGICOS; RESTAURACIÓN; RESTORATION; REWILDING; SUSTITUCIÓN DE TAXÓN; TAXON SUBSTITUTION; TEORÍA DE LA CRISIS INVASIVA; TORTOISES; TORTUGAS TERRESTRES;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MAURITIUS; PLANT WEEDS; TURTLES;

BOLIVAR [VENEZUELA]; ROUND ISLAND; VENEZUELA;

ALDABRACHELYS ELEPHANTINA; CYLINDRASPIS; MAMMALIA; RADIATA; TESTUDINIDAE;

EID: 84880698867     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12087     Document Type: Article

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