The Use of Extant Non‐Indigenous Tortoises as a Restoration Tool to Replace Extinct Ecosystem Engineers

By C. Griffiths, Carl G. Jones, D. Hansen, M. Puttoo, R. Tatayah, C. Müller, S. Harris. 2010

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The Potential Conservation Value of Non‐Native Species (2011, background): “substituted the herbivory and seed-dispersal functions of native tortoises that recently became extinct (Griffiths et al. 2010).”
Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians. (2015, background): “…that may help restore vanished or threatened ecosystems to islands or continental regions that no longer harbor the tortoises that previously existed there, but were driven into extinction by human exploitation (Truett and Phillips 2009; Griffiths et al. 2010, 2011, 2013a; Pedrono et al. 2013).”
Which Taxa Are Alien? Criteria, Applications, and Uncertainties (2018, background): “Similarly, in several cases, organisms have been released outside their native range to perform specific ecological functions of now-extinct species (e.g., translocations of extant tortoises to replace the extinct Mauritian tortoise; Griffiths et al. 2010).”
Seed dispersal by Galápagos tortoises (2012, background): “The large body size of giant tortoises may render them ecological keystones and/or ecosystem engineers in common with traditionally defined megaherbivores (Gibbs et al., 2008, 2010; Hansen et al., 2008, 2010; Griffiths et al., 2010).”
Rewilding: Science, Practice, and Politics (2015, background): “The big four are the Oostvaardersplassen (OVP) (Netherlands), Yellowstone (United States), the Pleistocene Park (Russia), and Mauritius and neighboring islands.”
Seed dispersal in changing landscapes. (2012, background): “For example, some island systems that have suffered frugivore extinctions within the last few 100 years have plant species with fruit displaying characters that are not suitable for extant (or exotic) frugivores, and these plant species appear to be suffering recruitment failure (Chimera and Drake, ”
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of living in a defaunated world (2013, background): “There have been few studies on how we can revert the consequences of defaunation (Griffiths et al., 2010) and this will be certainly a most-needed new field of research.”
Rewilding Europe's large grazer community: how functionally diverse are the diets of European bison, cattle, and horses? (2018, background): “Domestic cattle and horses are, therefore, increasingly seen as functional equivalents, or ecological replacements (Griffiths et al. 2010; Svenning et al. 2016), of aurochs and tarpan (Naundrup & Svenning 2015), and there are now more and more efforts focused on rewilding horses (Linnartz &…”