Publications

2021

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Li, W., Guo, W., Qin, Y., Wang, L., Niu, Z. & Svenning, J. C. (2021). Mapping spatio-temporal patterns in global tree cover heterogeneity: Links with forest degradation and recovery. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 104, Article 102583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2021.102583

Prendin, A. L., Carrer, M., Karami, M., Hollesen, J., Pedersen, N. B., Pividori, M., Treier, U. A., Westergaard-Nielsen, A., Elberling, B. & Normand, S. (2020). Immediate and carry-over effects of insect outbreaks on vegetation growth in West Greenland assessed from cells to satellite. Journal of Biogeography, 47(1), 87-100. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13644

Pedersen, P. B. M., Ejrnæs, R., Sandel, B. & Svenning, J. C. (2020). Trophic Rewilding Advancement in Anthropogenically Impacted Landscapes (TRAAIL): A framework to link conventional conservation management and rewilding. AMBIO, 49(1), 231-244. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01192-z

Dagallier, L.-P. M. J., Janssens, S. B., Dauby, G., Blach-Overgaard, A., Mackinder, B. A., Droissart, V., Svenning, J.-C., Sosef, M. S. M., Stévart, T., Harris, D. J., Sonké, B., Wieringa, J. J., Hardy, O. J. & Couvreur, T. L. P. (2020). Cradles and museums of generic plant diversity across tropical Africa. New Phytologist, 225(5), 2196-2213. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16293

Ordonez, A. & Svenning, J.-C. (2020). The potential role of species and functional composition in generating historical constraints on ecosystem processes. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(2), 207-219. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13033

Engemann, K., Svenning, J.-C., Arge, L., Brandt, J., Geels, C., Mortensen, P. B., Plana-Ripoll, O., Tsirogiannis, C. & Pedersen, C. B. (2020). Natural surroundings in childhood are associated with lower schizophrenia rates. Schizophrenia Research, 216, 488-495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2019.10.012

Kattge, J., Boenisch, G., Diaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, I. C., Leadley, P., Tautenhahn, S., Werner, G. D. A., Aakala, T., Abedi, M., Acosta, A. T. R., Adamidis, G. C., Adamson, K., Aiba, M., Albert, C. H., Alcantara, J. M., Alcazar, C. C., Aleixo, I., Ali, H. ... le Roux, L. (2020). TRY plant trait database: enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology, 26(1), 119-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904

Li, W., Buitenwerf, R., Munk, M., Amoke, I., Bøcher, P. K. & Svenning, J.-C. (2020). Accelerating savanna degradation threatens the Maasai Mara socio-ecological system. Global Environmental Change, 60, Article 102030. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.102030

Sandom, C. J., Middleton, O., Lundgren, E., Rowan, J., Schowanek, S. D., Svenning, J. C. & Faurby, S. (2020). Trophic rewilding presents regionally specific opportunities for mitigating climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375(1794), Article 20190125. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0125

Brunbjerg, A. K., Bruun, H. H., Dalby, L., Classen, A. T., Fløjgaard, C., Frøslev, T. G., Hansen, O. L. P., Høye, T. T., Moeslund, J. E., Svenning, J.-C. & Ejrnæs, R. (2020). Multi-taxon inventory reveals highly consistent biodiversity responses to ecospace variation. Oikos, 129(9), 1381-1392. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.07145

Ni, X., Liao, S., Tan, S., Wang, D., Peng, Y., Yue, K., Wu, F. & Yang, Y. (2020). A quantitative assessment of amino sugars in soil profiles. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 143(April), Article 107762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107762

Bjorkman, A. D., García Criado, M., Myers-Smith, I. H., Ravolainen, V., Jónsdóttir, I. S., Westergaard, K. B., Lawler, J. P., Aronsson, M., Bennett, B., Gardfjell, H., Heiðmarsson, S., Stewart, L. & Normand, S. (2020). Status and trends in Arctic vegetation: Evidence from experimental warming and long-term monitoring. AMBIO, 49(3), 678-692. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01161-6

Jensen, D. A., Ma, K. & Svenning, J.-C. (2020). Steep topography buffers threatened gymnosperm species against anthropogenic pressures in China. Ecology and Evolution, 10(4), 1838-1855. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5983

Moleón, M., Sánchez-Zapata, J. A., Donázar, J. A., Revilla, E., Martín-López, B., Gutiérrez-Cánovas, C., Getz, W. M., Morales-Reyes, Z., Campos-Arceiz, A., Crowder, L. B., Galetti, M., González-Suárez, M., He, F., Jordano, P., Lewison, R., Naidoo, R., Owen-Smith, N., Selva, N., Svenning, J. C. ... Tockner, K. (2020). Rethinking megafauna. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1922), Article 20192643. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2643

Hansen, O. L. P., Svenning, J. C., Olsen, K., Dupont, S., Garner, B. H., Iosifidis, A., Price, B. W. & Høye, T. T. (2020). Species-level image classification with convolutional neural network enables insect identification from habitus images. Ecology and Evolution, 10(2), 737-747. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5921

Teng, S. N., Xu, C., Teng, L. & Svenning, J. C. (2020). Long-term effects of cultural filtering on megafauna species distributions across China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 117(1), 486-493. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909896116

Lundgren, E., Ramp, D., Rowan, J., Middleton, O., Schowanek, S. D., Sanisidro, O., Carroll, S. P., Davis, M., Sandom, C. J., Svenning, J.-C. & Wallach, A. D. (2020). Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 117(14), 7871-7878. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915769117

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

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

Ahmadi, K., Jalil Alavi, S., Zahedi Amiri, G., Mohsen Hosseini, S., Serra-Diaz, J. M. & Svenning, J. C. (2020). Patterns of density and structure of natural populations of Taxus baccata in the Hyrcanian forests of Iran. Nordic Journal of Botany, 38(3), Article e02598. https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.02598

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

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

Yue, K., Jarvie, S., Senior, A. M., Van Meerbeek, K., Peng, Y., Ni, X., Wu, F. & Svenning, J. C. (2020). Changes in plant diversity and its relationship with productivity in response to nitrogen addition, warming and increased rainfall. Oikos, 129(7), 939-952. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.07006

Doughty, C. E., Prys-Jones, T. O., Faurby, S., Abraham, A. J., Hepp, C., Leshyk, V., Fofanov, V. Y., Nieto, N. C., Svenning, J. C. & Galetti, M. (2020). Megafauna decline have reduced pathogen dispersal which may have increased emergent infectious diseases. Ecography, 43(8), 1107-1117. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05209

Engemann, K., Pedersen, C. B., Agerbo, E., Arge, L., Børglum, A. D., Erikstrup, C., Hertel, O., Hougaard, D. M., McGrath, J. J., Mors, O., Mortensen, P. B., Nordentoft, M., Sabel, C. E., Sigsgaard, T., Tsirogiannis, C., Vilhjálmsson, B. J., Werge, T., Svenning, J.-C. & Horsdal, H. T. (2020). Association Between Childhood Green Space, Genetic Liability, and the Incidence of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 46(6), 1629-1637. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa058

Zohner, C. M., Mo, L., Renner, S. S., Svenning, J.-C., Vitasse, Y., Benito, B. M., Ordonez, A., Baumgarten, F., Bastin, J.-F., Sebald, V., Reich, P. B., Liang, J., Nabuurs, G.-J., de-Miguel, S., Alberti, G., Antón-Fernández, C., Balazy, R., Brändli, U.-B., Chen, H. Y. H. ... Crowther, T. W. (2020). Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 117(22), 12192-12200. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920816117

Riede, F., Hussain, S. T., Timmreck, C. & Svenning, J.-C. (2020). CLIOdynamic ARCHaeology: computational approaches to Final Palaeolithic/Early Mesolithic archaeology and climate change. Antiquity, 94(375), Article e13. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.85

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

Ammar, E. E. S., Shaltout, K., Svenning, J. C., El-Beheiry, M. & Ahmed, D. A. E. A. (2020). Assessment of the wild plants in the Egyptian botanic gardens; Nile region. African Journal of Ecology, 58(4), 874-878. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12757

Ahmadi, K., Alavi, S. J., Amiri, G. Z., Hosseini, S. M., Serra-Diaz, J. M. & Svenning, J. C. (2020). The potential impact of future climate on the distribution of European yew (Taxus baccata L.) in the Hyrcanian Forest region (Iran). International Journal of Biometeorology, 64(9), 1451-1462. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-020-01922-z

Engemann, K., Svenning, J. C., Arge, L., Brandt, J., Erikstrup, C., Geels, C., Hertel, O., Mortensen, P. B., Plana-Ripoll, O., Tsirogiannis, C., Sabel, C. E., Sigsgaard, T. & Pedersen, C. B. (2020). Associations between growing up in natural environments and subsequent psychiatric disorders in Denmark. Environmental Research, 188, Article 109788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.109788

Hussain, S. T. & Riede, F. (2020). Paleoenvironmental humanities: Challenges and prospects of writing deep environmental histories. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 11(5), Article e667. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.667

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

Li, W., Buitenwerf, R., Munk, M., Bøcher, P. K. & Svenning, J. C. (2020). Deep-learning based high-resolution mapping shows woody vegetation densification in greater Maasai Mara ecosystem. Remote Sensing of Environment, 247, Article 111953. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111953

O'Loughlin, C., Courtney Jones, S., Jenkins, M. & Gordon, C. E. (2020). The effects of inter-fire interval on flora-fauna interactions in a sub-alpine landscape. Forest Ecology and Management, 473, Article 118316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118316

Hannah, L., Roehrdanz, P. R., Marquet, P. A., Enquist, B. J., Midgley, G., Foden, W., Lovett, J. C., Corlett, R. T., Corcoran, D., Butchart, S. H. M., Boyle, B., Feng, X., Maitner, B., Fajardo, J., McGill, B. J., Merow, C., Morueta-Holme, N., Newman, E. A., Park, D. S. ... Svenning, J. C. (2020). 30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%. Ecography, 43(7), 943-953. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05166

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

Liu, Q., Zhang, Q., Yan, Y., Zhang, X., Niu, J. & Svenning, J. C. (2020). Ecological restoration is the dominant driver of the recent reversal of desertification in the Mu Us Desert (China). Journal of Cleaner Production, 268, Article 122241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122241

Maxwell, C. J., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Scheller, R. M. & Thompson, J. R. (2020). Co-designed management scenarios shape the responses of seasonally dry forests to changing climate and fire regimes. Journal of Applied Ecology, 57(7), 1328-1340. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13630

Vogel, S. M., Blumenthal, S. A., de Boer, W. F., Masake, M., Newton, I., Songhurst, A. C., McCulloch, G., Stronza, A., Henley, M. D. & Coulson, T. (2020). Timing of dietary switching by savannah elephants in relation to crop consumption. Biological Conservation, 249, Article 108703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108703

Muscarella, R., Emilio, T., Phillips, O. L., Lewis, S. L., Slik, F., Baker, W. J., Couvreur, T. L. P., Eiserhardt, W. L., Svenning, J. C., Aiba, S. I., de Almeida, E. C., de Almeida, S. S., de Oliveira, E. A., Álvarez-Dávila, E., Alves, L. F., Alvez-Valles, C. M., Carvalho, F. A., Guarin, F. A., Andrade, A. ... Balslev, H. (2020). The global abundance of tree palms. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(9), 1495-1514. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13123

Li, Y., Liu, X., Xu, W., Bongers, F. J., Bao, W., Chen, B., Chen, G., Guo, K., Lai, J., Lin, D., Mi, X., Tian, X., Wang, X., Yan, J., Yang, B., Zheng, Y. & Ma, K. (2020). Effects of diversity, climate and litter on soil organic carbon storage in subtropical forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 476, Article 118479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118479

Madsen, B., Treier, U. A., Zlinszky, A., Lucieer, A. & Normand, S. (2020). Detecting shrub encroachment in seminatural grasslands using UAS LiDAR. Ecology and Evolution, 10(11), 4876-4902. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6240

Riede, F. & Kierdorf, U. (2020). The eruption of the Laacher See volcano (~13,000 years BP) and possible fluoride poisoning amongst contemporaneous wildlife and human foragers—Outline of a hypothesis and the way to test it. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 30(6), 855-871. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2916

Peng, Y., Schmidt, I. K., Zheng, H., Heděnec, P., Bachega, L. R., Yue, K., Wu, F. & Vesterdal, L. (2020). Tree species effects on topsoil carbon stock and concentration are mediated by tree species type, mycorrhizal association, and N-fixing ability at the global scale. Forest Ecology and Management, 478, Article 118510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118510

Fricke, E. C. & Svenning, J. C. (2020). Accelerating homogenization of the global plant–frugivore meta-network. Nature, 585(7823), 74-78. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2640-y

Hoeks, S., Huijbregts, M. A. J., Busana, M., Harfoot, M. B. J., Svenning, J. C. & Santini, L. (2020). Mechanistic insights into the role of large carnivores for ecosystem structure and functioning. Ecography, 43(12), 1752-1763. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05191

Berti, E. & Svenning, J. C. (2020). Megafauna extinctions have reduced biotic connectivity worldwide. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(12), 2131-2142. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13182

Ni, X., Liao, S., Tan, S., Peng, Y., Wang, D., Yue, K., Wu, F. & Yang, Y. (2020). The vertical distribution and control of microbial necromass carbon in forest soils. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(10), 1829-1839. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13159

Liao, S., Tan, S., Peng, Y., Wang, D., Ni, X., Yue, K., Wu, F. & Yang, Y. (2020). Increased microbial sequestration of soil organic carbon under nitrogen deposition over China’s terrestrial ecosystems. Ecological Processes, 9, Article 52. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-020-00260-7

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Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World

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2021

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