Søren Faurby

TL;DR: A synthesis of its current scientific basis is provided, highlighting trophic cascades as the key conceptual framework, discussing the main lessons learned from ongoing rewilding projects, systematically reviewing the current literature, and highlighting unintentional re wilding and spontaneous wildlife comebacks as underused sources of information.

TL;DR: This first species-level macroscale analysis at relatively high geographical resolution provides strong support for modern humans as the primary driver of the worldwide megafauna losses during the late Quaternary.

TL;DR: The capacity of animals to move nutrients away from concentration patches has decreased to about 8% of the preextinction value on land and about 5% of historic values in oceans, both now and prior to their widespread reductions.

TL;DR: It is found that OTU richness shows a declining west-to-east diversity gradient that is in agreement with the species richness patterns documented here and previously for birds and trees, suggesting that most taxonomic groups respond to the same overall diversity gradients at large spatial scales.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the extent to which humans have reshaped Earth's biodiversity, by estimating natural ranges of all late Quaternary mammalian species, and to compare diversity patterns based on these with diversity pattern based on current distributions.