Publications

Hoag, C. B. & Svenning, J.-C. (2017). African Environmental Change from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 42, 27-54. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-102016-060653

Serra-Diaz, J. M., Enquist, B. J., Maitner, B., Merow, C. & Svenning, J.-C. (2017). Big data of tree species distributions: how big and how good? Forest Ecosystems, 4(1), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40663-017-0120-0

Tao, T., Abades, S., Teng, S., Huang, Z. Y. X., Reino, L., Chen, B. J. W., Zhang, Y., Xu, C. & Svenning, J.-C. (2017). Macroecological factors shape local-scale spatial patterns in agriculturalist settlements. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1833), Article 20172003. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2003

Svenning, J. C. & Faurby, S. (2017). Prehistoric and historic baselines for trophic rewilding in the Neotropics. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 15(4), 282-291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecon.2017.09.006

Navarro, L. M., Marques, A., Proença, V., Ceausu, S., Gonçalves, B., Capinha, C., Fernandez, M., Geldmann, J. & Pereira, H. M. (2017). Restoring degraded land: contributing to Aichi Targets 14, 15, and beyond. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 29, 207-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.03.014

Steinbauer, M. J., Grytnes, J.-A., Jurasinski, G., Kulonen, A., Lenoir, J., Pauli, H., Rixen, C., Winkler, M., Bardy-Durchhalter, M., Barni, E., Bjorkman, A. D., Breiner, F. T., Burg, S., Czortek, P., Dawes, M. A., Delimat, A., Dullinger, S., Erschbamer, B., Felde, V. A. ... Vittoz, P. (2018). Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming. Nature, 556(7700), 231-234. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0005-6

Castro-Insua, A., Gomez-Rodriguez, C., Svenning, J.-C. & Baselga, A. (2018). A new macroecological pattern: The latitudinal gradient in species range shape. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(3), 357-367. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12702

Fløjgaard, C., Bruun, H. H., Hansen, M. DD., Heilmann-Clausen, J., Svenning, J.-C. & Ejrnæs, R. (2018). Are ungulates in forests concerns or key species for conservation and biodiversity? Reply to Boulanger et al. (DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13899). Global Change Biology, 24(3), 869-871. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14029

Yue, K., Garcia-Palacios, P., Parsons, S. A., Yang, W., Peng, Y., Tan, B., Huang, C. & Wu, F. (2018). Assessing the temporal dynamics of aquatic and terrestrial litter decomposition in an alpine forest. Functional Ecology, 32(10), 2464-2475. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13143

Droissart, V., Dauby, G., Hardy, O. J., Deblauwe, V., Harris, D. J., Janssens, S., Mackinder, B., Blach-Overgaard, A., Sonke, B., Sosef, M. S. M., Stevart, T., Svenning, J.-C., Wieringa, J. J. & Couvreur, T. L. P. (2018). Beyond trees: Biogeographical regionalization of tropical Africa. Journal of Biogeography, 45(5), 1153-1167. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13190

Van Meerbeek, K. & Svenning, J. C. (2018). Causing confusion in the debate about the transition toward amore plant-based diet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 115(8), E1701-E1702. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720738115

Chalmandrier, L., Albouy, C., Descombes, P., Sandel, B., Faurby, S., Svenning, J.-C., Zimmermann, N. E. & Pellissier, L. (2018). Comparing spatial diversification and meta-population models in the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Royal Society Open Science, 5(3), Article 171366. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171366

Mello, R., Jarvie, S. W., Hazley, L. & Cree, A. (2018). Comparison among three body parts and three software packages to optimise photographic identification of a reptile (tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus). Amphibia - Reptilia, 40(2), 233-244. Article 20181059. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685381-20181059

Serra-Diaz, J. M., Maxwell, C., Lucash, M. S., Scheller, R. M., Laflower, D. M., Miller, A. D., Tepley, A. J., Epstein, H. E., Anderson-Teixeira, K. J. & Thompson, J. R. (2018). Disequilibrium of fire-prone forests sets the stage for a rapid decline in conifer dominance during the 21^st century. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 6749. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-24642-2

Schweiger, A. H. & Svenning, J.-C. (2018). Down-sizing of dung beetle assemblages over the last 53 000 years is consistent with a dominant effect of megafauna losses. Oikos, 127(9), 1243-1250. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.04995

Chen, Y., Svenning, J.-C., Wang, X., Cao, R., Yuan, Z. & Ye, Y. (2018). Drivers of Macrofungi Community Structure Differ between Soil and Rotten-Wood Substrates in a Temperate Mountain Forest in China. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9(JAN), Article 37. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00037

Muscarella, R., Messier, J., Condit, R., Hubbell, S. P. & Svenning, J. C. (2018). Effects of biotic interactions on tropical tree performance depend on abiotic conditions. Ecology, 99(12), 2740-2750. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2537

Rose, L., Buitenwerf, R., Cramer, M., February, E. C. & Higgins, S. I. (2018). Effects of nutrient supply on carbon and water economies of C4 grasses. Functional Plant Biology, 45(9), 935-944. https://doi.org/10.1071/FP17359

Gauzere, P., Iversen, L. L., Barnagaud, J.-Y., Svenning, J.-C. & Blonder, B. (2018). Empirical Predictability of Community Responses to Climate Change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 6(NOV), Article 186. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2018.00186

Rao, M., Steinbauer, M. J., Xiang, X., Zhang, M., Mi, X., Zhang, J., Ma, K. & Svenning, J. C. (2018). Environmental and evolutionary drivers of diversity patterns in the tea family (Theaceae s.s.) across China. Ecology and Evolution, 8(23), 11663-11676. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4619

Stewart, L., Simonsen, C. E., Svenning, J.-C., Schmidt, N. M. & Pellissier, L. (2018). Forecasted homogenisation of high-arctic vegetation communities under climate change. Journal of Biogeography, 45(11), 2576-2587. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13434

Maruyama, P. K., Sonne, J., Vizentin-Bugoni, J., Martín González, A. M., Zanata, T. B., Abrahamczyk, S., Alarcón, R., Araujo, A. C., Araújo, F. P., Baquero, A. C., Chávez-González, E., Coelho, A. G., Cotton, P. A., Dehling, D. M., Fischer, E., Kohler, G., Lara, C., Las-Casas, F. M. G., Machado, A. O. ... Dalsgaard, B. (2018). Functional diversity mediates macroecological variation in plant1–hummingbird interaction networks. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(10), 1186-1199. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12776

Morueta-Holme, N. & Svenning, J. C. (2018). Geography of plants in the New World: Humboldt's Relevance in the Age of Big Data. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 103(3), 315-329. https://doi.org/10.3417/2018110

Bruelheide, H., Dengler, J., Purschke, O., Lenoir, J., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Hennekens, S. M., Botta-Dukát, Z., Chytrý, M., Field, R., Jansen, F., Kattge, J., Pillar, V. D., Schrodt, F., Mahecha, M. D., Peet, R. K., Sandel, B., van Bodegom, P., Altman, J., Alvarez-Dávila, E. ... Jandt, U. (2018). Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(12), 1906-1917. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8

Ordonez, A. & Svenning, J.-C. (2018). Greater tree species richness in eastern North America compared to Europe is coupled to denser, more clustered functional trait space filling, not to trait space expansion. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(11), 1288-1299. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12785

Ceausu, S., Borda-de-Água, L., Merckx, T., Sossai, E., Sapage, M., Miranda, M. & Pereira, H. M. (2018). High impact journals in ecology cover proportionally more significant findings. https://doi.org/10.1101/311068

Jimenez-Alfaro, B., Girardello, M., Chytry, M., Svenning, J.-C., Willner, W., Gegout, J.-C., Agrillo, E., Antonio Campos, J., Jandt, U., Kacki, Z., Silc, U., Slezak, M., Tichy, L., Tsiripidis, I., Turtureanu, P. D., Ujhazyova, M. & Wohlgemuth, T. (2018). History and environment shape species pools and community diversity in European beech forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(3), 483-490. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0462-6

Root-Bernstein, M. & Svenning, J. C. (2018). Human paths have positive impacts on plant richness and diversity: A meta-analysis. Ecology and Evolution, 8(22), 11111-11121. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4578

Alexander, C., Korstjens, A. H. & Hill, R. A. (2018). Influence of micro-topography and crown characteristics on tree height estimations in tropical forests based on LiDAR canopy height models. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 65(March), 105-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2017.10.009

Buitenwerf, R., Sandel, B. S., Normand, S., Mimet, A. & Svenning, J.-C. (2018). Land surface greening suggests vigorous woody regrowth throughout European semi‐natural vegetation. Global Change Biology, 24(15), 5789-5801. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14451

Riede, F. & Borre Pedersen, J. (2018). Late Glacial human dispersals in northern Europe and disequilibrium dynamics. Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 46(5), 621-632. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-017-9964-8

Blonder, B., Enquist, B. J., Graae, B. J., Kattge, J., Maitner, B. S., Morueta-Holme, N., Ordonez, A., Šímová, I., Singarayer, J., Svenning, J.-C., Valdes, P. J. & Violle, C. (2018). Late Quaternary climate legacies in contemporary plant functional composition. Global Change Biology, 24(10), 4827-4840. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14375

Ma, T., Li, R., Svenning, J.-C. & Song, X. (2018). Linear spectral unmixing using endmember coexistence rules and spatial correlation. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 39(11), 3512-3536. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2018.1444288

Chen, Y., Yuan, Z., Bi, S., Wang, X., Ye, Y. & Svenning, J.-C. (2018). Macrofungal species distributions depend on habitat partitioning of topography, light, and vegetation in a temperate mountain forest. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 13589. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31795-7

Davis, M., Faurby, S. & Svenning, J.-C. (2018). Mammal diversity will take millions of years to recover from the current biodiversity crisis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 115(44), 11262-11267. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1804906115

Torres, A., Fernandez, N., zu Ermgassen, S., Helmer, W., Revilla, E., Saavedra, D., Perino, A., Mimet, A., Rey-Benayas, J. M., Selva, N., Schepers, F., Svenning, J.-C. & Pereira, H. M. (2018). Measuring rewilding progress. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1761), Article 20170433. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0433

Van Meerbeek, K., Hermy, M. & Muys, B. (2018). Nature conservation and bioenergy production-a response to Kallimanis. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 16(2), 75-76. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1768

Faurby, S., Davis, M., Pedersen, R. Ø., Schowanek, S. D., Antonelli, A. & Svenning, J.-C. (2018). PHYLACINE 1.2: The Phylogenetic Atlas of Mammal Macroecology. Ecology, 99(11), 2626-2626. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2443

Echeverría-Londoño, S., Enquist, B. J., Neves, D. M., Violle, C., Boyle, B., Kraft, N. J. B., Maitner, B. S., McGill, B., Peet, R. K., Sandel, B., Smith, S. A., Svenning, J. C., Wiser, S. K. & Kerkhoff, A. J. (2018). Plant functional diversity and the biogeography of biomes in North and South America. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 6(DEC), Article 219. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2018.00219

Bjorkman, A. D., Myers-Smith, I. H., Elmendorf, S. C., Normand, S., Rueger, N., Beck, P. S. A., Blach-Overgaard, A., Blok, D., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Forbes, B. C., Georges, D., Goetz, S. J., Guay, K. C., Henry, G. H. R., HilleRisLambers, J., Hollister, R. D., Karger, D. N., Kattge, J., Manning, P. ... Weiher, E. (2018). Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. Nature, 562(7725), 57-62. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7

Xu, W., Svenning, J. C., Chen, G., Chen, B., Huang, J. & Ma, K. (2018). Plant geographical range size and climate stability in China: Growth form matters. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(5), 506-517. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12710

Svenning, J.-C. (2018). Proactive conservation and restoration of botanical diversity in the Anthropocene's "rambunctious garden". American Journal of Botany, 105(6), 963-966. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1117

Kirchheimer, B., Wessely, J., Gattringer, A., Huelber, K., Moser, D., Schinkel, C. C. F., Appelhans, M., Klatt, S., Caccianiga, M., Dellinger, A., Guisan, A., Kuttner, M., Lenoir, J., Maiorano, L., Nieto-Lugilde, D., Plutzar, C., Svenning, J.-C., Willner, W., Hoerandl, E. & Dullinger, S. (2018). Reconstructing geographical parthenogenesis: effects of niche differentiation and reproductive mode on Holocene range expansion of an alpine plant. Ecology Letters, 21(3), 392-401. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12908

Jackson, R. C., Dugmore, A. J. & Riede, F. (2018). Rediscovering lessons of adaptation from the past. Global Environmental Change, 52, 58-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.05.006

Riede, F., Sauer, F. & Hoggard, C. (2018). Rockshelters and the impact of the Laacher See eruption on Late Pleistocene foragers. Antiquity, 92(365), Article e2. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.217

Odgaard, M. V., Dalgaard, T., Bøcher, P. K. & Svenning, J.-C. (2018). Site‐specific modulators control how geophysical and socio‐technical drivers shape land use and land cover. Geography and Environment, 5(2), 1-15. Article e00060. https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.60

Nüchel, J., Bøcher, P. K., Xiao, W., Zhu, A. X. & Svenning, J. C. (2018). Snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus): potential distribution and its implication for conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation, 27(6), 1517-1538. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-018-1507-0

Araujo, A. C., Martín González, A. M., Sandel, B., Maruyama, P. K., Fischer, E., Vizentin-Bugoni, J., de Araújo, F. P., Coelho, A. G., Faria, R. R., Kohler, G., Las-Casas, F. M. G., Lopes, A. V., Machado, A. O., Machado, C. G., Machado, I. C., McGuire, J. A., Moura, A. C., Oliveira, G. M., Oliveira, P. E. ... Svenning, J. C. (2018). Spatial distance and climate determine modularity in a cross-biomes plant–hummingbird interaction network in Brazil. Journal of Biogeography, 45(8), 1846-1858. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13367

Šímová, I., Violle, C., Svenning, J. C., Kattge, J., Engemann, K., Sandel, B., Peet, R. K., Wiser, S. K., Blonder, B., Mcgill, B. J., Boyle, B., Morueta-Holme, N., Kraft, N. J. B., van Bodegom, P. M., Gutiérrez, A. G., Bahn, M., Ozinga, W. A., Tószögyová, A. & Enquist, B. J. (2018). Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species. Journal of Biogeography, 45(4), 895-916. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13171

Graae, B. J., Vandvik, V., Armbruster, W. S., Eiserhardt, W. L., Svenning, J. C., Hylander, K., Ehrlén, J., Speed, J. D. M., Klanderud, K., Bråthen, K. A., Milbau, A., Opedal, Ø. H., Alsos, I. G., Ejrnæs, R., Bruun, H. H., Birks, H. J. B., Westergaard, K. B., Birks, H. H. & Lenoir, J. (2018). Stay or go - how topographic complexity influences alpine plant population and community responses to climate change. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 30(February), 41-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2017.09.008

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