Transforming forest management through rewilding : Enhancing biodiversity, resilience, and biosphere sustainability under global change
Wang, Lanhui LU
; Wei, Fangli
; Tagesson, Torbern
LU
; Fang, Zhongxiang
and Svenning, Jens Christian
(2025)
In One Earth
8(3).
- 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 resilience. We provide... (More)
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 resilience. We provide practical recommendations for implementation, including fostering natural regeneration, reintroducing keystone species, and adopting assisted migration where necessary. We also discuss ecological, economic, sociocultural, and policy challenges and opportunities inherent in this urgently needed systematic transformation. We call for a global commitment to rewilding-inspired forestry as a complementary strategy to protected areas, offering a nature-based solution for stewarding sustainable forest landscapes and biosphere in the Anthropocene.
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- author
- Wang, Lanhui
LU
; Wei, Fangli
; Tagesson, Torbern
LU
; Fang, Zhongxiang
and Svenning, Jens Christian
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025-03-21
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- biodiversity, climate resilience, forest management, forestry, plantation forest, restoration, rewilding, tree plantation
- in
- One Earth
- volume
- 8
- issue
- 3
- article number
- 101195
- publisher
- Cell Press
- external identifiers
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- scopus:105000320453
- ISSN
- 2590-3330
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101195
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s)
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- 9fdff2a9-226b-466a-81d3-d70b027f46d4
- date added to LUP
- 2025-05-16 09:20:25
- date last changed
- 2025-05-22 13:47:49
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