Climate-smart rewilding: ecological restoration for climate change mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity support in Europe

Project Information

wildE

Grant agreement ID: 101081251

DOI

10.3030/101081251

EC signature date 7 September 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

• Climate, Energy and Mobility

Total cost

€ 8 555 016,25

EU contribution

€ 8 555 016,25

Coordinated by

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT
France

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Rewilding Knowledge Hub

The Rewilding Knowledge Hub is a new EU web platform with multi-language support and online community that will be created for the purpose of sharing knowledge and resources on rewilding. It will host a repository of project outputs and additionally provide an online shared workspace for collaboration and co-creation in support of multi-actor engagement activities. It will be developed as part of OPPLA (the EU Repository of Nature-based Solutions) with its own bespoke identity, user interface and functionality.

Project website including a short report on structure and functioning

Project website including a short report on structure and functioning.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

IForest

Author(s): Markuljaková K; Mikoláš M; Svitok M; Meigs GW; Keeton WS; Kozák D; Pavlin J; Gloor R; Kalaš M; Ferenčík M; Ralhan D; Frankovič M; Hofmeister J; Dúhová D; Mejstrík M; Dušátko M; Veber A; Knír T; Svoboda M
Published in: iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2025, ISSN 1971-7458
Publisher: The Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF)
DOI: 10.3832/IFOR4600-017

Rewilding beech-dominated temperate forest ecosystems: effects on carbon stocks and biodiversity indicators

Author(s): K Markuljaková, M Mikoláš, M Svitok, GW Meigs, WS Keeton, D Kozák, J Pavlin, R Gloor, M Kalaš, M Ferenčík, D Ralhan, M Frankovič, J Hofmeister, D Dúhová, M Mejstrík, M Dušátko, A Veber, T Knír, M Svoboda
Published in: iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, Issue 18, 2025, ISSN 1971-7458
Publisher: Italian Society of Sivilculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF)
DOI: 10.3832/IFOR4600-017

An assessment of future rewilding potential in the United Kingdom

Author(s): Brown, C.; Prestele, R.; Rounsevell, M.
Published in: Conservation Biology, 2024, ISSN 1523-1739
Publisher: Society for Conservation Biology
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000170733

Relationship between crop diversification and farm efficiency: Does farm size matter?

Author(s): Toho Hien
Published in: European Review of Agricultural Economics, Issue 52, 2025, ISSN 0165-1587
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/ERAE/JBAF016

Disentangling the importance of intrinsic and extrinsic seed dispersal factors in forest restoration success: a global review

Author(s): Miriam Selwyn, Joan Pino & Josep M. Espelta.
Published in: Restoration Ecology, 2023, ISSN 1526-100X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11119877

Camera traps unable to determine whether plasticine models of caterpillars reliably measure bird predation

Author(s): Laura Schillé, Nattan Plat, Luc Barbaro, Hervé Jactel, Frédéric Raspail, Jean-Baptiste Rivoal, Bastien Castagneyrol, Anna Mrazova
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0308431

Integrated fire management as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes

Author(s): I. Oliveras Menor, N. Prat-Guitart, G. L. Spadoni, A. Hsu, P. M. Fernandes, R. Puig-Gironès, D. Ascoli, B. A. Bilbao, V. Bacciu, L. Brotons, R. Carmenta, S. de-Miguel, L. G. Gonçalves, G. Humphrey, V. Ibarnegaray, M. W. Jones, M. S. Machado, A. Millán, R. de Morais Falleiro, F. Mouillot, C. Pinto, P. Pons, A. Regos, M. Senra de Oliveira, S. P. Harrison, D. Armenteras Pascual
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S43247-025-02165-9

A systematic meta-review: The relationship between forest structures and biodiversity in deciduous forests

Author(s): Lydwin Freija Wagenaar, Ola Olsson, Martin Stjernman, Henrik G. Smith
Published in: Forest Ecology and Management, Issue 596, 2025, ISSN 0378-1127
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.FORECO.2025.123072

Pathway narratives towards a nature-positive European Union land system: operationalising the Nature Futures Framework for policy objectives

Author(s): Raymond, Joanna; Schmitt, Thomas M.; Tschol, Maximilian; Bakx, Tristan R.M.; Brotons, Lluís; Brown, Claire; Buitenwerf, Robert; id_orcid 0000-0003-3356-2301; Díaz-General, Elizabeth; Ferretto, Anna; Kloibhofer, Judith; Laimer, Tobias; Moreira, Francisco; Pang, Sean E.H.; Plumanns-Pouton, Ella; Prestele, Reinhard; Smith, Angus M.; Svenning, Jens Christian; id_orcid 0000-0002-3415-0862; Rounsevell, Mark
Published in: Sustainability Science, 2025, ISSN 1862-4057
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000185306

Where could climate-smart rewilding be located in Europe?

Author(s): Judith Kloibhofer; Reinhard Prestele; Georg Leitinger; Mark Rounsevell
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management, Issue 380, 2025, ISSN 1095-8630
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2025.125084

Long‐term comparison shows protected and non‐protected forests differ in harvesting, but not in wildfires or drought‐driven dieback

Author(s): Josep Maria Espelta, Alba Viana‐Soto, Roberto Molowny‐Horas, Miquel de Caceres, Miriam Selwyn, Mireia Banqué, Lluís Brotons, Francisco Lloret, Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta, Miriam Piqué, Cornelius Senf
Published in: Journal of Applied Ecology, Issue 63, 2026, ISSN 0021-8901
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.70282

Can natural forest expansion contribute to Europe's restoration policy agenda? An interdisciplinary assessment

Author(s): Theresa Frei; Josep Maria Espelta; Elena Górriz-Mifsud; Arndt Hampe; François Lefèvre; Irene Martín-Forés; Georg Winkel
Published in: "AMBIO: A Journal of Environment and Society, 2023, 53 (1), pp.34 - 45. ⟨10.1007/s13280-023-01924-2⟩", Issue 53, 2023, ISSN 1654-7209
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S13280-023-01924-2

A multi‐scale approach to integrating rewilding into agricultural landscapes

Author(s): José M Rey Benayas, James M Bullock, Henrique M Pereira
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Issue 23, 2025, ISSN 1540-9295
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/FEE.2860

Quantifying the impacts of rewilding on ecosystem resilience to disturbances: A global meta-analysis

Author(s): Selwyn, Miriam; Lázaro-González, Alba; Lloret, Francisco; Rey Benayas, José; Hampe, Arndt; Brotons, Lluís; Pino, Joan; Espelta, Josep
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management, 2025, ISSN 1095-8630
Publisher: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14851400

PLoS ONE

Author(s): Schillé, Laura; Plat, Nattan; Barbaro, Luc; Jactel, Hervé; Raspail, Frédéric; Rivoal, Jean-Baptiste; Castagneyrol, Bastien; Mrazova, Anna
Published in: PLOS ONE, 2024, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public LIbrary of Science
DOI: 10.1101/2024.10.01.616075

Restoring fire regimes through rewilding

Author(s): Plumanns-Pouton, Ella; Bakx, Tristan R.M.; Buitenwerf, Robert; id_orcid 0000-0003-3356-2301; Espelta, Josep Maria; Moreira, Francisco; Regos, Adrian; Selwyn, Miriam; Brotons, Lluís
Published in: Current Biology, 2025, ISSN 1879-0445
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.CUB.2025.04.026

Wildfire connectivity under drought-induced impacts and landscape management strategies in a Mediterranean region

Author(s): Rodrigo Balaguer-Romano, Josep Maria Espelta, Lluís Brotons, Núria Aquilué, Miquel De Cáceres
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management, Issue 395, 2025, ISSN 0301-4797
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2025.127844

Recent tree diversity increase in NE Iberian forests following intense management release: A task for animal-dispersed and drought-tolerant species

Author(s): Miriam Selwyn, Joan Pino & Josep M. Espelta.
Published in: Journal of Applied Ecology, 2024, ISSN 1365-2664
Publisher: British Ecological Society
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11119961

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Nature might need some nurture : slow passive vegetation recovery in Mediterranean abandoned farmland - the Baixo Sabor case study

Author(s): Pato, António Ovídio Baptista Vaz
Published in: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa - FC - Dissertações de Mestrado, ISBN 10451-65258
Publisher: 10451-65258

Other (1)

Integrated fire management as an adaptation and mitigation strategy to altered fire regimes

Author(s): Oliveras Menor, I; Prat-Guitart, N; Spadoni, GL; Hsu, A; Fernandes, PM; Puig-Gironès, R; Ascoli, D; Bilbao, BA; Bacciu, V; Brotons, L; Carmenta, R; de-Miguel, S; Gonçalves, LG; Humphrey, G; Ibarnegaray, V; Jones, MW; Machado, MS; Millán, A; de Morais Falleiro, R; Mouillot, F; Pinto, C; Pons, P; Regos, A; Senra de Oliveira, M
Published in: 2025
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0308431