Publications

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

Gordon, C. E., Greve, M., Henley, M., Bedetti, A., Allin, P. & Svenning, J. C. (2023). Elephant rewilding affects landscape openness and fauna habitat across a 92-year period. Ecological Applications, 33(3), Article e2810. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2810

Gordon, C. E., Lerm, R. E., Allin, P., Greve, M. & Svenning, J. C. (2021). Elephant rewilding indirectly affects the abundance of an arboreal but not generalist savanna lizard. Biodiversity and Conservation, 30(5), 1277-1291. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-021-02141-7

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

Mata, J. C., Buitenwerf, R. & Svenning, J. C. (2021). Enhancing monitoring of rewilding progress through wildlife tracking and remote sensing. PLoS One, 16(7 July), Article e0253148. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253148

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

Lundgren, E. J., Ramp, D., Stromberg, J. C., Wu, J., Nieto, N. C., Sluk, M., Moeller, K. T. & Wallach, A. D. (2021). Equids engineer desert water availability. Science, 372(6541), 491-495. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd6775

Alavi, S. J., Ahmadi, K., Dormann, C. F., Serra-Diaz, J. M. & Nouri, Z. (2020). Évaluation de la hauteur dominante du hêtre oriental (Fagus orientalis l.) par rapport aux variables édaphiques et physiographiques dans les forêts hyrcaniennes d’Iran. Biotechnology, Agronomy and Society and Environment, 24(4), 262-273.

Hordijk, I., Maynard, D. S., Hart, S. P., Lidong, M., ter Steege, H., Liang, J., de-Miguel, S., Nabuurs, G. J., Reich, P. B., Abegg, M., Adou Yao, C. Y., Alberti, G., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Alvarado, B. V., Esteban, A. D., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Alves, L. F., Ammer, C., Antón-Fernández, C. ... Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness (2023). Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness. Journal of Ecology, 111(6), 1308-1326. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14098

Power, C. C., Nielsen, A. & Sheil, D. (2022). Even small forest patches increase bee visits to flowers in an oil palm plantation landscape. Biotropica, 54(1), 18-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13023

Baumann, C., Hussain, S. T., Roblíčková, M., Riede, F., Mannino, M. & Bocherens, H. (2023). Evidence for hunter-gatherer impacts on raven diet and ecology in the Gravettian of Southern Moravia. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7(8), 1302-1314. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02107-8

Gordon, C. E. & Letnic, M. (2019). Evidence that the functional extinction of small mammals facilitates shrub encroachment following wildfire in arid Australia. Journal of Arid Environments, 164(May), 60-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.01.015

Vogel, S. M., Lambert, B., Songhurst, A. C., McCulloch, G. P., Stronza, A. L. & Coulson, T. (2020). Exploring movement decisions: Can Bayesian movement-state models explain crop consumption behaviour in elephants (Loxodonta africana)? Journal of Animal Ecology, 89(4), 1055-1068. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13177

Méndez-Quintas, E., Santonja, M., Pérez-González, A., Díaz-Rodríguez, M. & Domínguez, A. S. (2022). Exploring the formation processes on open-air palaeolithic sites: A late Middle Pleistocene Acheulean assemblage at Arbo site (Miño River basin, Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 43, Article 103453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103453

Pérez-Navarro, M., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Svenning, J. C., Esteve-Selma, M. Á., Hernández-Bastida, J. & Lloret, F. (2021). Extreme drought reduces climatic disequilibrium in dryland plant communities. Oikos, 130(5), 680-690. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.07882

Pyšek, P., Guo, W. Y., Štajerová, K., Moora, M., Bueno, C. G., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Gerz, M., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., van Kleunen, M., Weigelt, P., Winter, M. & Zobel, M. (2019). Facultative mycorrhizal associations promote plant naturalization worldwide. Ecosphere, 10(11), Article e02937. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2937

Bull, J. W., Ejrnaes, R., Macdonald, D. W., Svenning, J.-C. & Sandom, C. J. (2019). Fences can support restoration in human-dominated ecosystems when rewilding with large predators. Restoration Ecology, 27(1), 198-209. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.12830

Menezes, R. F., Svenning, J. C., Fu, H., De Meester, L., Lauridsen, T. L., Søndergaard, M., Conde-Porcuna, J. M. & Jeppesen, E. (2023). Fish Beta Diversity Patterns across Environmental Gradients in 63 European Shallow Lakes: Effects of Turbidity, Nutrient Enrichment, and Exotic Species. Water, 15(10), Article 1831. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15101831

Klynge, D., Svenning, J. C. & Skov, F. (2020). Floristic changes in the understory vegetation of a managed forest in Denmark over a period of 23 years –: Possible drivers of change and implications for nature and biodiversity conservation. Forest Ecology and Management, 466, Article 118128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118128

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

Feng, G., Zhang, J., Girardello, M., Pellissier, V. & Svenning, J. C. (2020). Forest canopy height co-determines taxonomic and functional richness, but not functional dispersion of mammals and birds globally. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(8), 1350-1359. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13110

Tan, S., Yue, K., Peñuelas, J., Svenning, J. C., Van Meerbeek, K., Peng, Y., Wu, Q., Fan, Y., Heděnec, P., Li, Z., Li, Z., Yuan, J., Ni, X. & Wu, F. (2025). Forest streams may discharge one tenth of the annual total global forest carbon sink through dissolved organic carbon. Innovation Geoscience, 3(3), Article 100148. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2025.100148

Lim, J. Y., Svenning, J. C., Göldel, B., Faurby, S. & Kissling, W. D. (2020). Frugivore-fruit size relationships between palms and mammals reveal past and future defaunation impacts. Nature Communications, 11, Article 4904. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18530-5

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

Pimiento, C., Leprieur, F., Silvestro, D., Lefcheck, J. S., Albouy, C., Rasher, D. B., Davis, M., Svenning, J. C. & Griffin, J. N. (2020). Functional diversity of marine megafauna in the Anthropocene. Science Advances, 6(16), Article eaay7650. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay7650

Lundgren, E., Schowanek, S. D., Rowan, J., Middleton, O., Pedersen, R. Ø., Wallach, A. D., Ramp, D., Davis, M., Sandom, C. J. & Svenning, J.-C. (2021). Functional traits of the world’s late Quaternary large-bodied avian and mammalian herbivores. Scientific Data, 8(1), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00788-5

Davoli, M. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Future changes in society and climate may strongly shape wild large-herbivore faunas across Europe. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1902), Article 20230334. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0334

Xu, C., Kohler, T. A., Lenton, T. M., Svenning, J. C. & Scheffer, M. (2020). Future of the human climate niche. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 117(21), 11350-11355. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910114117

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

Klassen, L., Rasmussen, U. L., Kveiborg, J., Richards, M. P., Orlando, L., Svenning, J.-C., Ritchie, K., Andreasen, M. H., Philippsen, B., Iversen, R. & Johannsen, N. N. (2023). Ginnerup revisited: New excavations at a key Neolithic site on Djursland, Denmark. Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 25, 35–65. https://doi.org/10.12766/jna.2023.2

Xu, W. B., Guo, W. Y., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Schrodt, F., Eiserhardt, W. L., Enquist, B. J., Maitner, B. S., Merow, C., Violle, C., Anand, M., Belluau, M., Bruun, H. H., Byun, C., Catford, J. A., Cerabolini, B. E. L., Chacón-Madrigal, E., Ciccarelli, D., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Dang-Le, A. T. ... Ordonez, A. (2023). Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change. Science Advances, 9(14), eadd8553. Article eadd8553. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add8553

Conradi, T., Henriksen, M. V. J. & Svenning, J. C. (2021). Global change, novel ecosystems and the ecological restoration of post-industrial areas: The case of a former brown coal mine in Søby, Denmark. Applied Vegetation Science, 24(3), Article e12605. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12605

Hähn, G. J. A., Damasceno, G., Alvarez-Davila, E., Aubin, I., Bauters, M., Bergmeier, E., Biurrun, I., Bjorkman, A. D., Bonari, G., Botta-Dukát, Z., Campos, J. A., Čarni, A., Chytrý, M., Ćušterevska, R., de Gasper, A. L., De Sanctis, M., Dengler, J., Dolezal, J., El-Sheikh, M. A. ... Bruelheide, H. (2025). Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 9(2), 237-248. Article e12976. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02589-0

Lembrechts, J. J., van den Hoogen, J., Aalto, J., Ashcroft, M. B., De Frenne, P., Kemppinen, J., Kopecký, M., Luoto, M., Maclean, I. M. D., Crowther, T. W., Bailey, J. J., Haesen, S., Klinges, D. H., Niittynen, P., Scheffers, B. R., Van Meerbeek, K., Aartsma, P., Abdalaze, O., Abedi, M. ... Lenoir, J. (2022). Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology, 28(9), 3110-3144. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16060

Bille, R. A., Jensen, K. E. & Buitenwerf, R. (2023). Global patterns in urban green space are strongly linked to human development and population density. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 86, Article 127980. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.127980

Scherer, L., Svenning, J. C., Huang, J., Seymour, C. L., Sandel, B., Mueller, N., Kummu, M., Bekunda, M., Bruelheide, H., Hochman, Z., Siebert, S., Rueda, O. & van Bodegom, P. M. (2020). Global priorities of environmental issues to combat food insecurity and biodiversity loss. Science of the Total Environment, 730, Article 139096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139096

Girardello, M., Santangeli, A., Mori, E., Chapman, A., Fattorini, S., Naidoo, R., Bertolino, S. & Svenning, J. C. (2019). Global synergies and trade-offs between multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 5636. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41342-7

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

Ceaușu, S., Graves, R. A., Killion, A. K., Svenning, J. C. & Carter, N. H. (2019). Governing trade-offs in ecosystem services and disservices to achieve human–wildlife coexistence. Conservation Biology, 33(3), 543-553. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13241

Bonavent, C., Olsen, K., Ejrnæs, R., Fløjgaard, C., Hansen, M. DD., Normand, S., Svenning, J.-C. & Bruun, H. H. (2023). Grazing by semi‐feral cattle and horses supports plant species richness and uniqueness in grasslands. Applied Vegetation Science, 26(1), Article e12718. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12718

Hyvarinen, O., te Beest, M., le Roux, E., Kerley, G. I. H., Findlay, N., Schenkeveld, W. D. C., Trouw, V. & Cromsigt, J. P. G. M. (2023). Grazing in a megagrazer-dominated savanna does not reduce soil carbon stocks, even at high intensities. Oikos, 2023(9), Article e09809. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09809

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

Carver, S., Convery, I., Hawkins, S., Beyers, R., Eagle, A., Kun, Z., Van Maanen, E., Cao, Y., Fisher, M., Edwards, S. R., Nelson, C., Gann, G. D., Shurter, S., Aguilar, K., Andrade, A., Ripple, W. J., Davis, J., Sinclair, A., Bekoff, M. ... Soulé, M. (2021). Guiding principles for rewilding. Conservation Biology, 35(6), 1882-1893. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13730

Kunwar, A., Gélin, U., Subedi, N., Regmi, S. & Tomlinson, K. W. (2025). Herbivory and fire influence soil and plant nutrient dynamics in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Global Ecology and Conservation, 60, Article e03610. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03610

Guo, W. Y., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Schrodt, F., Eiserhardt, W. L., Maitner, B. S., Merow, C., Violle, C., Anand, M., Belluau, M., Bruun, H. H., Byun, C., Catford, J. A., Cerabolini, B. E. L., Chacón-Madrigal, E., Ciccarelli, D., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Dang-Le, A. T., de Frutos, A., Dias, A. S. ... Svenning, J. C. (2022). High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 119(25), Article e2026733119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2026733119

Li, W., Niu, Z., Shang, R., Qin, Y., Wang, L. & Chen, H. (2020). High-resolution mapping of forest canopy height using machine learning by coupling ICESat-2 LiDAR with Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 data. ITC Journal, 92, Article 102163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2020.102163

Monnet, A.-C., Vorontsova, M. S., Govaerts, R. H. A., Svenning, J.-C. & Sandel, B. (2020). Historical legacies and ecological determinants of grass naturalizations worldwide. Ecography, 43(9), 1373-1385. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04609

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

Li, W., Wang, Y., Wang, G., Liang, Y., Li, C. & Svenning, J. C. (2023). How do rotifer communities respond to floating photovoltaic systems in the subsidence wetlands created by underground coal mining in China? Journal of Environmental Management, 339, Article 117816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117816

Xu, W.-B., Svenning, J.-C., Chen, G.-K., Zhang, M.-G., Huang, J.-H., Chen, B., Ordonez, A. & Ma, K.-P. (2019). Human activities have opposing effects on distributions of narrow-ranged and widespread plant species in China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 116(52), 26674–26681. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911851116

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