Reply to Rubenstein and Rubenstein: Time to move on from ideological debates on rewilding

Affiliations

¹ Section for Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; svenning@bios.au.dk.
² Section for Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark;
³ Advanced Conservation Strategies, Midway, UT 84049; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 15853;
⁴ Section for Biodiversity & Conservation, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, DK-8410 Rønde, Denmark;
⁵ Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, 13506-900 Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil;
⁶ Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland;
⁷ Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Oxfordshire OX13 5QL, United Kingdom;
⁸ Center for Tropical Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
⁹ Community and Conservation Ecology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, 9700 CC Groningen, The Netherlands.

Comment

Jens-Christian Svenning et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016.

. 2016 Jan 5;113(1):E2-3.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1521891113. Epub 2015 Dec 16.

¹ Section for Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; svenning@bios.au.dk.
² Section for Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark;
³ Advanced Conservation Strategies, Midway, UT 84049; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 15853;
⁴ Section for Biodiversity & Conservation, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, DK-8410 Rønde, Denmark;
⁵ Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, 13506-900 Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil;
⁶ Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland;
⁷ Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Oxfordshire OX13 5QL, United Kingdom;
⁸ Center for Tropical Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708;
⁹ Community and Conservation Ecology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, 9700 CC Groningen, The Netherlands.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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