Rasmus Østergaard Pedersen

1 Introduction Internationally there is a growing interest and investment in rewilding, as an ecological restoration approach. Rewilding aims to kick-start, promote and sustain critical ecological processes in order to promote biodiversity and enable self-regulating complex ecosystems (Carver et al. 2021; Egoh et al. 2021; Segar et al. 2022; Svenning 2020). The rewilding discipline ‘trophic rewilding’ (Svenning et al.

1 INTRODUCTION Megafauna are disproportionally important for the functioning of biological communities due to a broad range of effects linked to their large body size (Malhi et al., 2016; Enquist et al., 2020).

2.2.1 Global consumption of primary productivity We compared our consumption rate estimates with primary productivity based on a mean data set of corrected MODIS 17A3 NPP estimates from 2000 to 2015 (Zhao et al., 2005). This was resampled to the same projection as the range maps.