Rewilding abandoned farmland has greater sustainability benefits than afforestation
Wang, Lanhui LU
; Pedersen, Pil Birkefeldt Møller
and Svenning, Jens Christian
(2023)
In NPJ Biodiversity
2.
- Abstract
Expansive farmlands in Europe and elsewhere are either already abandoned or projected to become abandoned. Afforestation on these abandoned farmlands is highly popular, but it only addresses the climate crisis, not the biodiversity emergency. An alternative to afforestation is rewilding, which would contribute to combating both the biodiversity and climate crises while also facilitating socio-ecological sustainability by increasing ecosystem resilience.
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- author
- Wang, Lanhui
LU
; Pedersen, Pil Birkefeldt Møller
and Svenning, Jens Christian
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023-12
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- NPJ Biodiversity
- volume
- 2
- article number
- 5
- pages
- 4 pages
- publisher
- Springer Nature
- external identifiers
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- scopus:86000027571
- DOI
- 10.1038/s44185-022-00009-9
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2023.
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publisher = {{Springer Nature}},
series = {{NPJ Biodiversity}},
title = {{Rewilding abandoned farmland has greater sustainability benefits than afforestation}},
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