Ecological history and latent conservation potential: Large and giant tortoises as a model for taxon substitutions

By D. Hansen, C. Donlan, C. Griffiths, K. Campbell. 2010

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Genetics

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Citations in the corpus

• Island extinctions: processes, patterns, and potential for ecosystem restoration (2017, background): “Tortoises are also ‘de-weeders’, and their faeces and urine provide vital soil nutrients, making tortoises ideal candidates for rewilding projects on Mauritius and Rodrigues (Griffiths et al. 2011; Griffiths 2014; Hume 2014b), Madagascar (Pedrono et al. 2013), Galápagos (Gibbs et al. 2008) and in th”
• Seed dispersal by Galápagos tortoises (2012, background): “…tortoises as taxon substitutes in ecological restoration programmes for oceanic islands including the Galápagos (Griffiths et al., 2010, 2011; Hansen et al., 2010; Kaiser-Bunbury et al., 2010), developing a better understanding of the ecological role of Galápagos tortoises is a research…”
• Late Quaternary reptile extinctions: size matters, insularity dominates (2016, background): “It may be that the smaller giant tortoise species may have been preferentially targeted by 18th-century sailors due to ease of transport, resulting in their eventual extinction (Hansen et al., 2010), while the larger species proved to be more of a handful.”
• Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation (2016, background): “…these principles to embrace the more complex, but also more important, job of restoring multispecies animal complexes, interactions, and functions (Hansen et al. 2010, Seddon et al. 2014). www.annualreviews.org • Consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation 349 Changes may still occur before final…”
• Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree (2014, background): “Tortoises have occupied this niche on islands for millennia (Hansen 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): “Hansen et al. (2010) discussed and documented extinction patterns of many species of giant tortoises on continental land masses in contrast to islands since the late Pleistocene, noting several cases of human exploitation as well as instances more likely influenced by climate change.”
• Rewilding: Science, Practice, and Politics (2015, background): “These could include (de)domesticated and/or non-native analogues of missing species (taxon substitution) (11, 12).”
• Conservation Paleobiology: Leveraging Knowledge of the Past to Inform Conservation and Restoration (2015, background): “This knowledge has led to proposals—and some success—for rewilding extant tortoises in order to restore ecosystem functioning (Hansen et al. 2010, Burney 2011; see also the example of feral horses mentioned in Section 2.4).”