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European cattle as a rewilded species: insights from the feral cattle in the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve

2025-06-10

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Cattle is a native large herbivore to Europe, but the original wild form (aurochs) is extinct, and only a few feral populations occur on the continent. At the same time, there is rising interest in including wild or semi-wild cattle in rewilding projects across Europe. Natural or near-natural-living cattle are crucial in preserving open and semi-open vegetation by grazing, mitigating uniform vegetation densificati...

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Literature Corpus work: 15dc815c-c879-5e8a-bceb-9b9de3481926
DOI: 10.22541/au.174954636.68923532/v1

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