摘要：Rewilding as a conservation strategy is gaining increasing scientific, political and publicattention, yet empirical evaluations of its impacts remain scarce, especially with regards toecosystem services. We provide evidence of the change in three ecosystem services (timber[provisioning], pollination [regulating], and aesthetics [cultural]) from up to 27 years of amoorland rewilding strategy in the Scottish Highlands using a chronosequence of rewildedplots and adjacent controls. These services were assessed in the field and using onlinesurveys. We found that rewilding increased aboveground woody biomass and restorednatural tree recruitment processes, although the latter only emerged after at least 15 yearsof rewilding. Rewilding caused a linear increase in perceived aesthetic quality over the first27 years, but had no effect on pollination visitation rates. Thus, we conclude that rewildingcan be used for ecosystem service recovery in moorland landscapes, but that results varydepending on the preferred service.
