The Pleistocene re-wilding gambit.
Re-wilding parts of North America with exotic Old-World species is an exciting but controversial conservation proposal hijacked by opinions over appropriate conservation baselines and details of implementation. Debate over its worth has become partisan. Here, I summarize the multifaceted issues surrounding Pleistocene re-wilding and edge debate from hazy conceptual arguments to empirical questions that can plug gaps in knowledge and begin to resolve this divisive conservation issue.
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Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology and Center for Population Biology, University of California, I Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA. tmcaro@ucdavis.edu
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000639:trends*; D017753:Ecosystem; D053476:Extinction, Biological; D009656:North America; D010163:Paleontology