In our upcoming Green Shoots webinar, Gavin Stark and Magali Weissgerber will present their work developing an integrated framework for climate-smart rewilding. This framework combines biodiversity, climate change, and socio-economic factors to maximize the ecological and societal benefits of rewilding while minimizing risks, with examples from Europe.

Meet our speakers

Gavin Stark (left) is a postdoctoral researcher at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and Martin Luther Universität Halle, specializing in macroecology, biophysical modeling, biodiversity monitoring, and restoration ecology. In the WildE project, he is responsible for developing the climate-smart rewilding framework. Additionally, he focuses on creating models to analyze the costs and benefits of ecosystem restoration using rewilding strategies, as well as developing biodiversity projections for rewilding under Nature Futures scenarios.

Magali Weissgerber (right) conducted her PhD in environmental geography at the Université Clermont Auvergne, focusing on agricultural abandonment. She currently holds a postdoc position at iDiv. Her is research in the wildE project focuses on indicators of rewilding in Europe, for which she is developing a series of spatially explicit indicators taking into account landscape connectivity, trophic complexity, and stochastic disturbances.