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Clauss, M., Roller, M., Bertelsen, M. F., von Rohr, C. R., Müller, D. W. H., Schiffmann, C., Kummrow, M., Encke, D., Ferreira, S., Duvall, E. S., Maré, C. & Abraham, A. J. (2025). Zoos must embrace animal death for education and conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(1), Article e2414565121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2414565121

Trepel, J., Abraham, A. J., Lundgren, E. J., Ferraro, K. M., Fløjgaard, C., Haugaard, L., Sunde, P., Tietje, M., Kamp, J. & le Roux, E. (2024). Zoogeochemistry of a protected area: Driven by anthropogenic impacts and animal behavior. Conservation Science and Practice, 6(5), Article e13107. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13107

Atkinson, J. & Freudenberger, D. (2024). Young woodland restoration plantings can be resilient to uncontrolled bushfires. Ecological Management and Restoration, 25(3), 177-181. https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.12616

Zymaroieva, A., Bondarev, D., Kunakh, O., Svenning, J. C. & Zhukov, O. (2024). Young-of-the-year fish as bioindicators of eutrophication and temperature regime of water bodies. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 196(2), Article 161. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-024-12313-x

Bergman, J., Pedersen, R., Lundgren, E. J., Lemoine, R. T., Monsarrat, S., Pearce, E. A., Schierup, M. H. & Svenning, J. C. (2023). Worldwide Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene population declines in extant megafauna are associated with Homo sapiens expansion rather than climate change. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 7679. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43426-5

Liu, L., Liu, P., Yu, J., Feng, G., Zhang, Q. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Wind farms increase land surface temperature and reduce vegetation productivity in the Inner Mongolia. Geography and Sustainability, 5(3), 319-328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2024.01.007

Pulido, F., Castagneyrol, B., Rodríguez-Sánchez, F., Cáceres, Y., Pardo, A., Moracho, E., Kollmann, J., Valladares, F., Ehrlén, J., Jump, A. S., Svenning, J. C. & Hampe, A. (2023). Widespread latitudinal asymmetry in the performance of marginal populations: A meta-analysis. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(6), 842-854. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13665

Kerr, M. R., Ordonez, A., Riede, F., Atkinson, J., Pearce, E. A., Sykut, M., Trepel, J. & Svenning, J. C. (2025). Widespread ecological novelty across the terrestrial biosphere. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 9(4), 589-598. Article e2023483118. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02662-2

Rech, B. J., Buitenwerf, R., Ruggiero, R., Trepel, J., Waltert, M. & Svenning, J. C. (2025). What moves large grazers? Habitat preferences and complementing niches of large herbivores in a Danish trophic rewilding area. Environmental Management, 75(7), 1665-1679. Article 7679. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02164-8

Ejrnæs, D. D., Olivier, B., Bakker, E. S., Cornelissen, P., Ejrnæs, R., Smit, C. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Vegetation dynamics following three decades of trophic rewilding in the mesic grasslands of Oostvaardersplassen. Applied Vegetation Science, 27(3), Article e12805. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12805

Alsos, I. G., Boussange, V., Rijal, D. P., Beaulieu, M., Brown, A. G., Herzschuh, U., Svenning, J. C. & Pellissier, L. (2024). Using ancient sedimentary DNA to forecast ecosystem trajectories under climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1902), Article 20230017. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0017

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

Li, W., Guo, W. Y., Pasgaard, M., Niu, Z., Wang, L., Chen, F., Qin, Y., Qiao, H. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Unmanaged naturally regenerating forests approach intact forest canopy structure but are susceptible to climate and human stress. One Earth, 7(6), 1068-1081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.05.002

Schmitz, O. J., Sylvén, M., Atwood, T. B., Bakker, E. S., Berzaghi, F., Brodie, J. F., Cromsigt, J. P. G. M., Davies, A. B., Leroux, S. J., Schepers, F. J., Smith, F. A., Stark, S., Svenning, J. C., Tilker, A. & Ylänne, H. (2023). Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions. Nature Climate Change, 13(4), 324–333. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01631-6

Svenning, J. C., Buitenwerf, R. & Le Roux, E. (2024). Trophic rewilding as a restoration approach under emerging novel biosphere conditions. Current Biology, 34(9), R435-R451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.02.044

Wang, L., Boonman, C. C. F., Vogel, S. M., Fang, Z. & Svenning, J. C. (2025). Tree cover homogenization in semi-open ecosystems worldwide and implications for ecosystem stability and conservation. Cell Reports Sustainability, 2(5), Article 100343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2025.100343

Wang, L., Cromsigt, J. P. G. M., Buitenwerf, R., Lundgren, E. J., Li, W., Bakker, E. S. & Svenning, J. C. (2023). Tree cover and its heterogeneity in natural ecosystems is linked to large herbivore biomass globally. One Earth, 6(12), 1759-1770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.007

Wang, L., Wei, F., Tagesson, T., Fang, Z. & Svenning, J. C. (2025). Transforming forest management through rewilding: Enhancing biodiversity, resilience, and biosphere sustainability under global change. One Earth, 8(3), Article 101195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101195

Lu, K., Jähnig, S. C., Wu, H., Xie, Z., Chen, X. & He, F. (2023). Trait-based approach of aquatic insects to track recovery of wetland ecosystems in Northeast China. Ecological Indicators, 155, Article 111012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.111012

Zhang, L., Wang, H., Gessner, J., Congiu, L., Haxton, T. J., Jeppesen, E., Svenning, J. C. & Xie, P. (2023). To save sturgeons, we need river channels around hydropower dams. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 120(13), Article e2217386120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2217386120

Qaiser, Z., Khalid, N., Mahmood, A., Lee, S. Y., Rizvi, Z. F., Irshad, M. K., Ejaz, U. & Aqeel, M. (2025). Tissue infiltration of polyethylene, polypropylene, and polystyrene microplastics in Solanum tuberosum L. influences plant growth and yield. Current Plant Biology, 43, Article 100496. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpb.2025.100496

Jhala, Y. V., Mungi, N. A., Gopal, R. & Qureshi, Q. (2025). Tiger recovery amid people and poverty. Science (New York, N.Y.), 387(6733), 505-510. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk4827

Ewers, R. M., Orme, C. D. L., Pearse, W. D., Zulkifli, N., Yvon-Durocher, G., Yusah, K. M., Yoh, N., Yeo, D. C. J., Wong, A., Williamson, J., Wilkinson, C. L., Wiederkehr, F., Webber, B. L., Wearn, O. R., Wai, L., Vollans, M., Twining, J. P., Turner, E. C., Tobias, J. A. ... Banks-Leite, C. (2024). Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate. Nature, 631(8022), 808-813. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07657-w

Marneweck, D. G., Druce, D. J., Cromsigt, J. P. G. M., le Roux, E. & Somers, M. J. (2022). The relative role of intrinsic and extrinsic drivers in regulating population change and survival of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus). Mammalian Biology, 102(4), 1215-1229. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-022-00281-z

Yaworsky, P. M., Nielsen, E. S. & Nielsen, T. K. (2024). The Neanderthal niche space of Western Eurasia 145 ka to 30 ka ago. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 7788. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-57490-4

Svenning, J. C., Lemoine, R. T., Bergman, J., Buitenwerf, R., Le Roux, E., Lundgren, E., Mungi, N. & Pedersen, R. O. (2024). The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 2, Article e5. https://doi.org/10.1017/ext.2024.4

Hatfield, J. H., Allen, B. J., Carroll, T., Dean, C. D., Deng, S., Gordon, J. D., Guillerme, T., Hansford, J. P., Hoyal Cuthill, J. F., Mannion, P. D., Martins, I. S., Payne, A. R. D., Shipley, A., Thomas, C. D., Thompson, J. B., Woods, L. & Davis, K. E. (2025). The Greatest Extinction Event in 66 Million Years? Contextualising Anthropogenic Extinctions. Global change biology, 31(9), Article e70476. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70476

Yaworsky, P. M., Vernon, K. B., McCool, W. C., Hart, I. A., Spangler, J. & Codding, B. F. (2024). The Goldilocks Zone for maize agriculture and the settlement and abandonment of the West Tavaputs Plateau. Quaternary International, 689-690, 30-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.12.003

Mo, L., Crowther, T. W., Maynard, D. S., van den Hoogen, J., Ma, H., Bialic-Murphy, L., Liang, J., de-Miguel, S., Nabuurs, G. J., Reich, P. B., Phillips, O. L., Abegg, M., Adou Yao, Y. C., Alberti, G., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Alvarado, B. V., Alvarez-Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Alves, L. F. ... Zohner, C. M. (2024). The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8(12), 2195-2212. Article 2555. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02564-9

Ma, H., Crowther, T. W., Mo, L., Maynard, D. S., Renner, S. S., van den Hoogen, J., Zou, Y., Liang, J., de-Miguel, S., Nabuurs, G. J., Reich, P. B., Niinemets, Ü., Abegg, M., Adou Yao, Y. C., Alberti, G., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Alvarado, B. V., Alvarez-Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P. ... Zohner, C. M. (2023). The global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit. Nature Plants, 9(11), 1795–1809. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01543-5

Yaworsky, P. M., Hussain, S. T. & Riede, F. (2024). The effects of climate and population on human land use patterns in Europe from 22ka to 9ka ago. Quaternary Science Reviews, 344, Article 108956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108956

Xiao, X., Jorge, L. R. É., Volf, M., Moos, M., Gélin, U., Finnie, S., Freiberga, I., Jancuchova-Laskova, J., Weiss, M., Novotny, V. & Sam, K. (2024). The effect of drought-induced leaf traits on Ficus leaf palatability is species specific. Ecosphere, 15(5), Article e4831. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4831

Mathes, G. H., Pimiento, C., Kiessling, W., Svenning, J. C. & Steinbauer, M. J. (2025). The effect of climate legacies on extinction dynamics: A systematic review. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 3, Article e6. https://doi.org/10.1017/ext.2025.2

Fehr, V., Conedera, M., Fratte, M. D., Cerabolini, B., Benedetti, C., Buitenwerf, R., Svenning, J. C., Maspoli, G. & Pezzatti, G. B. (2024). The alien Chinese windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) impacts forest vegetation and regeneration on the southern slope of the European Alps. Applied Vegetation Science, 27(1), Article e12765. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12765

Ripple, W. J., Wolf, C., Gregg, J. W., Rockström, J., Mann, M. E., Oreskes, N., Lenton, T. M., Rahmstorf, S., Newsome, T. M., Xu, C., Svenning, J. C., Pereira, C. C., Law, B. E. & Crowther, T. W. (2024). The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth. BioScience, 74(12), 812-824. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae087

Czyżewski, S. & Svenning, J. C. (2025). Temperate forest plants are associated with heterogeneous semi-open canopy conditions shaped by large herbivores. Nature Plants, 11(5), 985-1000. Article 7818. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-01981-3

Shen, Z., Gao, X., Ni, M., An, R., Xie, Z. & Tu, Y. (2024). Sustainable Development of Urban Landscape Construction and Tourism in Hefei, China: A SWOT and AHP Analysis. Journal of Resources and Ecology, 15(6), 1722-1732. https://doi.org/10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2024.06.026

Pearce, E. A., Mazier, F., Normand, S., Fyfe, R., Andrieu, V., Bakels, C., Balwierz, Z., Bińka, K., Boreham, S., Borisova, O. K., Brostrom, A., de Beaulieu, J. L., Gao, C., González-Sampériz, P., Granoszewski, W., Hrynowiecka, A., Kołaczek, P., Kuneš, P., Magri, D. ... Svenning, J. C. (2023). Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens. Science Advances, 9(45), Article eadi9135. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi9135

Maraia, H., Charles-Dominique, T., Tomlinson, KW., Staver, AC., Jorge, LR., Gélin, U., Jancuchova-Laskova, J., Sam, L., Hattas, D., Freiberga, I. & Sam, K. (2024). Substantial Insect Herbivory in a South African Savanna-Forest Mosaic: A Neglected Topic. Ecology and Evolution, 14(11), Article e70466. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70466

Liu, S., Jonsson, B., Greenberg, L. & Hansen, M. M. (2025). Stronger parental than temperature effects on methylation in juvenile brown trout (Salmo trutta). Ecology and Evolution, 15(9), Article e72154. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72154

Hernández-Agüero, J. A., Verburg, P. H., Magneville, C., Cartereau, M., Silva, E., Leriche, A., Svenning, J. C., Tzortzakaki, O., Bacchetta, G. & Riva, F. (2025). Stakeholder Consensus on Conservation Priorities Across Scientific, NGO, and Governmental Sectors. Conservation Letters, 18(4), Article e13109. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13109

Couet, J., Marjakangas, E. L., Santangeli, A., Niittynen, P., Fontaine, B., Herrando, S., Kålås, J. A., Lindström, Å., Massimino, D., Moosmann, M., Seaman, B., Silva, L., Stokke, B. G., Teufelbauer, N. & Lehikoinen, A. (2025). Solar Radiation Affects Bird Distributions but Not Elevational Shifts in European Mountains. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(11), Article e70143. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70143

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

Abraham, A. J., Duvall, E. S., Doughty, C. E., Riond, B., Ortmann, S., Terranova, M., le Roux, E. & Clauss, M. (2025). Sodium Retention in Large Herbivores: Physiological Insights and Zoogeochemical Consequences. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, 343(6), 664-676. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2924

Abraham, A. J., Hempson, G. P., le Roux, E., Maré, C., Taylor, L. L., Webster, A. B., Duvall, E. S., Prys-Jones, T., Coppock, J., Ridenour, C., de Jager, P., Augustine, D., Chapman, C. A., Fashing, P. J., Harfoot, M. B. J., Holdo, R. M., Hopcraft, J. G. C., Johnson, C., van Langevelde, F. ... Doughty, C. E. (2025). Sodium constraints on megaherbivore communities in Africa. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 10, 105-116. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02917-y

Esperon-Rodriguez, M., Sharmin, M., Esperon Rodriguez, D., Messier, C., Svenning, J. C., Moore, S. & Tjoelker, M. G. (2025). Socio-economic factors, climate, and people's behaviours determine urban tree health. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 107, Article 128801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128801

Mungi, N. A., Jhala, Y. V., Svenning, J. C. & Qureshi, Q. (2025). Socioecological risks amplified by rising plant invasions in India. Nature Sustainability. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01690-x

Di Bitetti, M. S., Mata, J. & Svenning, J. C. (2023). SOBRE EL USO DE MAMÍFEROS NO NATIVOS PARA EL REASILVESTRAMIENTO (REWILDING) TRÓFICO EN EL NEOTRÓPICO. Mastozoologia Neotropical, 30(2), Article e1011. https://doi.org/10.31687/saremMN.23.30.2.06.e1011

Midolo, G., Clark, A. T., Chytrý, M., Essl, F., Dullinger, S., Jandt, U., Bruelheide, H., Argagnon, O., Biurrun, I., Chiarucci, A., Ćušterevska, R., De Frenne, P., De Sanctis, M., Dengler, J., Divíšek, J., Dziuba, T., Ejrnæs, R., Garbolino, E., Illa, E. ... Keil, P. (2025). Six Decades of Losses and Gains in Alpha Diversity of European Plant Communities. Ecology Letters, 28(11), Article e70248. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70248

Søndergaard, S. A., Fløjgaard, C., Ejrnæs, R. & Svenning, J. C. (2025). Shifting baselines and the forgotten giants: integrating megafauna into plant community ecology. Oikos, 2025(5), Article e11134. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.11134, https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.11134

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Gustav Emil Wester

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Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere

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