Wildlife Restoration (WiRE) in human-modified landscapes.

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Human activity threatens biodiversity, undermines access to natural resources, and erodes the value of ecosystem services. This activity is intensifying in many landscapes, motivating a growing demand for the restoration of critical ecological processes across broad spatial scales. Knowledge of how human activity affects two ecological processes - predation and connectivity - for large mammals is an important part of restoring landscapes. Through these processes, large mammals can alter the flow of biomass and energy across the landscape, mediate the frequency and impact of natural disturbance (e.g., fire, flooding), and constrain the spread of disease outbreaks. In some ecosystems, large mammals are not simply by-products of restoration, they are agents of restoration.