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Zymaroieva, A., Andreieva, O., Kunakh, O., Zymaroiev, O. & Zhukov, O. (2026). Anthropogenic impacts, more than climate and area, shape the functional diversity of bird communities in steppe agricultural landscapes of Ukraine. Biodiversity and Conservation, 35(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-025-03207-6

Simonsen, T. J., Tengstedt, A. N. B., Hansen, M. M. & Olsen, K. (2026). From critically endangered to a fragile conservation success: Population genomics and historical demography of Aeshna viridis (Odonata: Aeshnidae) in Denmark. Insect Conservation and Diversity, 19.

Mogensen, N., Packer, C., Svenning, J. C., Sankan, K. & Buitenwerf, R. (2026). Human-driven landscapes of fear for Africa's largest terrestrial predator in human-used conservation landscapes. Biological Conservation, 313, Article 111599. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111599

Trepel, J., Atkinson, J., le Roux, E., Abraham, A. J., Aucamp, M., Greve, M., Greyling, M., Kalwij, J. M., Khosa, S., Lindenthal, L., Makofane, C., Mokoena, L., Oosthuizen, A., Rech, B. J., Lundgren, E., Svenning, J. C. & Buitenwerf, R. (2026). Large herbivores are linked to higher herbaceous plant diversity and functional redundancy across spatial scales. Journal of Animal Ecology, 95(1), 230-242. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70181

Mélanie, S., Necmi, A., Claire, A., Dalibor, B., Tatiana, B., Sylvain, B., Giacomo, C., Thomas, C., Yves, C., Anna, C., Jacques-Louis, D. B., Koen, D., Omid, E., Petros, G., Hamid, G., Zoran, G., Knut, K., Laurent, L., Vasil, M. ... Jens-Christian, S. (2026). Seeing yew for the forest: a call to action for improving conservation and restoration of the European yew (Taxus baccata L.). Trees, Forests and People, 23, Article 101093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2025.101093

Webster, A. B., Bennett, N. C., Clauss, M., Ganswindt, A. & Abraham, A. J. (2026). Soil ingestion: An important contamination pathway for toxic element exposure in wild herbivores. Science of the Total Environment, 1012, Article 181193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.181193

Esperon-Rodriguez, M., Arndt, S., Asibey, M. O., Augustinus, B. A., Bach, A., Ballinas, M., Barradas, V. L., Barton, D. N., Bauhus, J., Beaumont, L., Bissonnette, J. F., Brookhouse, M., Calaza-Martínez, P., Calfapietra, C., Lourenço, T. C., Cariñanos, P., Clemente, M., Conway, T., de Hoogh, K. ... Tjoelker, M. G. (2026). Urban forests as essential infrastructure for climate resilience and biodiversity: A call to policymakers. Plants People Planet, 8(1), 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70125

Yang, Y., Liu, X., Wu, J., Svenning, J. C., Liu, J. & Shrestha, N. (2025). A comprehensive county-level distribution database of alien and invasive plants in China. Ecology, 106(5), Article e70084. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70084

Töpper, J. P., Hoeks, S., Hartig, F., Kolstad, A., Tucker, M. A., Bartlett, J., Bærum, K. M., Chipperfield, J., Harfoot, M., Huijbregts, M. A. J. & Svenning, J. C. (2025). Advancing general ecosystem models (GEMs): Towards a mechanistic understanding of the biosphere in the light of the Anthropocene. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 6(2), Article e70053. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.70053

Busk, K. Ø. & Svenning, J.-C. (2025). A global-change winner? Global expansion potential, ecological drivers and hybridization risk of the disturbance-promoted honey locust (Gleditsia). Discover Plants, 2, 1-17. Article 277. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44372-025-00358-2

Colding-Jørgensen, C. T., Ejrnæs, R., Svenning, J. C. & Bruun, H. H. (2025). A graduated nativeness definition for overcoming dilemmas and difficulties of vascular plant species. Oikos, Article e11635. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/oik.11635

Mungi, N. A., Galetti, M., Ratnam, J., Chala, D., Sanín, M. J. & Svenning, J.-C. (2025). Alien plants and novel ecosystems in the Greater Tropics. Nature Reviews Biodiversity, 1, 515–531. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-025-00068-3

Cortell-Nicolau, A., Carrignon, S., Rodíguez-Palomo, I., Hromada, D., Kahlenberg, R., Mes, A., Priss, D., Yaworsky, P., Zhang, X., Brainerd, L., Lewis, J., Redhouse, D., Simmons, C., Coto-Sarmiento, M., Daems, D., Deb, A., Lawrence, D., O'Brien, M., Riede, F. ... Crema, E. (2025). Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: The Archaeoriddle challenge. Concept, project and motivations. Journal of Archaeological Science, 177, Article 106179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106179

Khalid, N., Aqeel, M., Lee, S. Y., Ejaz, U., Noman, A., Maqsood, M. F., Irshad, M. K. & El-Sheikh, M. A. (2025). Association of microplastics with lead and cadmium in soil: Land-use and temporal trends. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 13(4), Article 117067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2025.117067

Wren, C. D., Romanowska, I. & Riede, F. (2025). Bad year econometrics: Agent-based modeling of risk management strategies under varying regimes of environmental change. Science Advances, 11(3), Article eadr0314. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr0314

Mogensen, N., Packer, C., Svenning, J. C., Amoke, I. & Buitenwerf, R. (2025). Balancing benefits and burdens: Tourist camps and lion conservation in the Maasai Mara. Conservation Science and Practice, Article e70210. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70210

Esperon-Rodriguez, M., Gallagher, R., Calfapietra, C., Cariñanos, P., Dobbs, C., Eleuterio, A. A., Esperon Rodriguez, D., Jahani, A., Litvak, E., Livesley, S. J., Manoli, G., Marchin, R. M., McPhearson, T., Messier, C., Östberg , J., Roman, L. A., Russo, A., Saffariha, M., Shackleton, C. ... Tjoelker, M. G. (2025). Barriers and opportunities for resilient and sustainable urban forests. Nature, 2, 290-298. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00212-2

Plazas-Gómez, R. A., Bejarano, S., Magneville, C. & Fujitani, M. (2025). Beyond taxonomy: A functional approach reveals patterns of reef fish response to wastewater pollution. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 216, Article 118024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.118024

Pearce, E. A., Mazier, F., Davison, C. W., Baines, O. A., Czyzewski, S., Fyfe, R., Bińka, K., Boreham, S., Jacques-Louis, D. B., Gao, C., Granoszewski, W., Hrynowiecka, A., Malkiewicz, M., Mighall, T., Noryśkiewicz, B., Pidek, I. A., Strahl, J., Winter, H. & Svenning, J.-C. (2025). Beyond the closed-forest paradigm: Cross-scale vegetation structure in temperate Europe before the late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions. Earth History and Biodiversity, 3, 1-14. Article 100022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hisbio.2025.100022

Abraham, A. J., Clauss, M., Bailey, M. A. & Duvall, E. S. (2025). Body Mass Scaling of Sodium Regulation in Mammals. Acta Physiologica, 241(9), Article e70090. https://doi.org/10.1111/apha.70090

Mungi, N. A., Rastogi, R., Jhala, Y. V., Qureshi, Q. & Svenning, J. C. (2025). Brave New Wild: Restoring Biodiversity and Values Amid Invaded Landscapes of India. In Ecological Restoration in India: Perspective and Practices (pp. 153-175). Springer Science + Business Media. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-8943-9_8

Sánchez-Dávila, J., Lenoir, J., Stefańska-Krzaczek, E., Biurrun, I., Wohlgemuth, T., Campos, J. A., Svenning, J. C., Bonari, G. & Padullés Cubino, J. (2025). Canopy Composition Outperforms Macroenvironment in Explaining European Forest Understory Composition. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(7), Article e70079. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70079

Mata, J. C., Svenning, J. C., Chequín, R. N., Davalos, M., Salas, R., Vucko, A. & Buitenwerf, R. (2025). Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) Generate Grazing Lawns and Maintain Plant Diversity in Neotropical Savanna. Applied Vegetation Science, 28(1), Article e70013. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.70013

Lundgren, E. J., Svenning, J. C., Schlaepfer, M. A., Wallach, A., Andersson, A., Pereyra, P. J. & Ramp, D. (2025). Categories, impacts, and the politics of naming in conservation: Reply to Schwartz and Simberloff. Conservation Biology, 39(5), Article e70112. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70112

Raina, P., Mungi, N. A., Kumar, U., Rathi, A. D., Khan, N. H., Patel, D. A., Bhasin, A., Bisht, S., Hiby, L., Pandav, B., Sultan, M. S., Takpa, J. J. & Jhala, Y. V. (2025). Comprehensive assessment of snow leopard distribution and population in the Indian Trans-Himalaya, Ladakh: Standardizing methods for evidence-based conservation. PLoS One, 20(5), Article e0322136. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322136

Pagh, S., de Jonge, N., Østergaard, S. K., Pertoldi, C., Wooldridge, B., Laustsen, A. M., Svenning, J. C., Pedersen, M. F., Larsen, H. L., Nielsen, J. L. & Toft, S. (2025). Diet of raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) in Danish wetlands with focus on ground-nesting birds and amphibians. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 71(1), 1-24. Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-024-01886-0

Hu, Z., Svenning, J. C., Tang, J., Cheng, Y., Ma, F., Wu, W., Ni, M., Yang, Y., Zhang, X. & Niu, B. (2025). Distributions and drivers of soil organic carbon on the Tibetan Plateau: divergent controls across ecosystems. Plant and Soil, 516(2), 1993-2012. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-07845-1

Gao, X., Liu, Z., Corlett, RT., Jiang, Z., Hughes, A., Ma, K., Svenning, J. C. & Feng, G. (2025). Divergent Importance and Geographic Patterns in Threats to Birds and Mammals in China. Diversity and Distributions, 31(2), Article e13925. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13925

Duque-Correa, M. J., Clauss, M., Meloro, C. & Abraham, A. J. (2025). Does intestine length explain digesta retention times in birds and mammals? Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Comparative Physiology, 300, Article 111789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2024.111789

Pearce, E. A., Davison, C. W., Mazier, F., Normand, S., Fyfe, R., Serge, M. A., Scussolini, P. & Svenning, J. C. (2025). Drivers of Vegetation Structure Differ Between Proposed Natural Reference Conditions for Temperate Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(3), Article e70020. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70020

Magneville, C., Cartereau, M., Hernández-Agüero, J. A., Silva, E., Marjakangas, E. L., Moracho Martinez, E., Biffoni, G., Casazza, G., Kati, V. I., Kokkoris, I. P., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Médail, F., Millon, A., Nève, G., Riva, F., Soliveres, S., Zografou, K., Olsen, K., Svenning, J. C. ... Ordonez, A. (2025). Echoes of the Past: Long-Term Climate Stability Shapes Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity in Euro-Mediterranean Forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(12), Article e70177. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70177

Doughty, C. E., Wiebe, B. C., Keany, J. M., Gaillard, C., Abraham, A. J. & Kristensen, J. A. (2025). Ecosystem engineers alter the evolution of seed size by impacting fertility and the understory light environment. Palaeontology, 68(1), Article e70002. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70002

Hordijk, I., Poorter, L., Liang, J., Reich, P. B., de-Miguel, S., Nabuurs, G. J., Gamarra, J. G. P., Chen, H. Y. H., Zhou, M., Wiser, S. K., Pretzsch, H., Paquette, A., Picard, N., Hérault, B., Bastin, J. F., Alberti, G., Abegg, M., Adou Yao, Y. C., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M. ... Crowther, T. W. (2025). Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests. Nature Communications, 16(1), Article 4773. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59754-7

Shen, Z. Q., Zhu, X. H., Wang, M. Q., Ni, M., Cheng, W. D., Lin, W., Chu, C. J. & Wang, Y. S. (2025). Effects of neighborhood diversity on herbivory in early-stage forests in southern China. Plant Diversity. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2025.09.008

Halbritter, A. H., Atkinson, J., Maré, C., Ahler, S. J., Andersen, E. A. S., Bradler, P. M., Correia, M., Elsy, A., Eshelman, S. E., Geange, S. R., Hayden, M., Mauki, D., Eckberg, J., Erkelenz, J., Guclu, C., Löwenstein, C. E., Maitner, B. S., Baumane, M., Dawson, H. R. ... Vandvik, V. (2025). Effects of Warming, Nitrogen and Grazing on Plant Functional Traits Differ Between Alpine and Sub-Alpine Grasslands. Journal of Vegetation Science, 36(5), Article e70061. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70061

Jones, O. E., Beckett, H., Abraham, A. J., Makunga, N. P. & Midgley, G. F. (2025). Endozoochory by Black Rhinoceroses Enhances Germination of a Key Arid Savanna Tree Species. Ecology and Evolution, 15(9), Article e71951. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71951

Allen, B. L., Abraham, A. J., Arlinghaus, R., Belant, J. L., Blumstein, D. T., Bobier, C., Bodenchuk, M. J., Clauss, M., Dawson, S. J., Derbyshire, S. W. G., Ferreira, S. M., Fleming, P. J. S., Forssman, T., Gorecki, V., Gortázar, C., Griffin, A. S., Hampton, J. O., Haswell, P. M., Kerley, G. I. H. ... von Essen, E. (2025). Ethical arguments that support intentional animal killing. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 13, Article 1684894. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2025.1684894

Si-Moussi, S., Hennekens, S., Mücher, S., De Keersmaecker, W., Chytrý, M., Agrillo, E., Attorre, F., Biurrun, I., Bonari, G., Čarni, A., Ćušterevska, R., Dziuba, T., Ecker, K., Güler, B., Jandt, U., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Lenoir, J., Svenning, J. C., Swacha, G. & Thuiller, W. (2025). EUNIS habitat maps: enhancing thematic and spatial resolution for Europe through machine learning. Scientific Data, 12(1), Article 1976. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06235-7

Mungi, N. A., Gloria, A. O., Rastogi, R. & Svenning, J. C. (2025). Expanding the Resist–Accept–Direct framework for developing nature-based solutions and societal adaptations to biological invasions. People and Nature, 7(7), 1505-1520. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70073

Sauspeter, G., Clauss, M., Ortmann, S., Abraham, A. J., Biddle, R., Versteege, L. & Przybyło, M. (2025). Feeding Management of African Rhinos (Ceratotherium simum, Diceros bicornis) in European Zoos. Zoo Biology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/zoo.70031

Gaudard, J., Telford, R. J., Chacon-Labella, J., Dawson, H. R., Enquist, B. J., Töpper, J. P., Trepel, J., Vandvik, V., Baumane, M., Birkeli, K., Holle, M. J. M., Hupp, J. R., Santos-Andrade, P. E., Satriawan, T. W. & Halbritter, A. H. (2025). fluxible: An R package to process ecosystem gas fluxes from closed-loop chambers in an automated and reproducible way. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 16(11), 2560-2568. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70161

Søndergaard, S. A., Ejrnæs, R., Svenning, J. C. & Fløjgaard, C. (2025). From Grasslands to Forblands: Year-round grazing as a driver of plant diversity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 62(5), 1104-1113. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70047

Sykut, M., Svenning, J. C., Ordonez, A. G., Kerr, M. R. & Riede, F. (2025). From open landscapes to forest refugia: Human encroachment and climate change as drivers of red deer (Cervus elaphus) niche shifts over 21,000 years. Quaternary Environments and Humans, 3(3), Article 100083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2025.100083

Marjakangas, E.-L., Dalsgaard, B. & Ordonez, A. (2025). Fundamental Interaction Niches: Towards a Functional Understanding of Ecological Networks' Resilience. Ecology Letters, 28(6), Article e70146. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70146

Moulatlet, G. M., Merow, C., Maitner, B., Boyle, B., Feng, X., Frazier, A. E., Hinojo-Hinojo, C., Newman, E. A., Roehrdanz, P. R., Song, L., Villalobos, F., Marquet, P. A., Svenning, J. C. & Enquist, B. J. (2025). General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(46), Article e2517585122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2517585122

Bastin, J. F., Latte, N., Bogaert, J., Garcia, C. A., Berzaghi, F., Maestre, F. T., Svenning, J. C., Assede, E., Barima, S., Besisa, T., Bouchoms, S., Crowther, T. W., de Haulleville, T., de Lame, H., Depoortere, P., Dufrêne, M., Hoek Van Dijke, A. J., Lhoest, S., Mahy, G. ... Lejeune, P. (2025). Global alternatives of natural vegetation cover. Nature Communications, 16(1), Article 6484. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61520-8

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

Esperon-Rodriguez, M., Gallagher, R. V., Russo, A., Power, S. A., Calaza-Martínez, P., Capela Lourenço, T., Cariñanos, P., Eleuterio, A. A., Guo, Z., Lee, G., Masselot, P., Mcdonald, R. I., Messier, C., Ordoñez, C., Parpanchi, M., Schifanella, R., Shackleton, C., Sharmin, M., Solfjeld, I. ... Tjoelker, M. G. (2025). Global trends in urban forest irrigation: Environmental influences, challenges and opportunities for sustainable practices across 109 cities worldwide. Sustainable Cities and Society, 130, Article 106510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2025.106510

Boonman, C. C. F., Hoeks, S., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Guo, W. Y., Enquist, B. J., Maitner, B., Merow, C. & Svenning, J. C. (2025). High tree diversity exposed to unprecedented macroclimatic conditions even under minimal anthropogenic climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(26), Article e2420059122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420059122

Farwig, N., Sprenger, P. P., Baur, B., Böhning-Gaese, K., Brandt, A., Eisenhauer, N., Ellwanger, G., Hochkirch, A., Karamanlidis, A. A., Mehring, M., Pusch, M., Rehling, F., Sommerwerk, N., Spatz, T., Svenning, J. C., Tischew, S., Tockner, K., Tscharntke, T., Vadrot, A. B. M. ... Mosbrugger, V. (2025). Identifying Major Factors for Success and Failure of Conservation Programs in Europe. Environmental Management, 75(3), 425-443. Article 12306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-024-02086-x

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Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere

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