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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

Gould, E., Fraser, H. S., Parker, T. H., Nakagawa, S., Griffith, S. C., Vesk, P. A., Fidler, F., Hamilton, D. G., Abbey-Lee, R. N., Abbott, J. K., Aguirre, L. A., Alcaraz, C., Aloni, I., Altschul, D., Arekar, K., Atkins, J. W., Atkinson, J., Baker, C. M., Barrett, M. ... Zitomer, R. A. (2025). Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology. BMC Biology, 23(1), Article 35. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-02101-x

Zhu, P., Wang, Y., Sheng, W., Yu, M., Wei, W., Sun, W., Gao, J., Xu, Z., Cao, M., Wang, Y., Liu, L. & Guo, W. (2025). Salinity Effect on Soil Bacterial and Archaeal Diversity and Assembly in Phragmites australis Salt Marshes in the Qaidam Basin, China. Microorganisms, 13(6), Article 1253. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms13061253

Herrik, A. L., Mogensen, N., Svenning, J. C. & Buitenwerf, R. (2023). Rotational grazing with cattle-free zones supports the coexistence of cattle and wild herbivores in African rangelands. Journal of Applied Ecology, 60(10), 2154-2166. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14493

Gao, Y., Zhao, B., Saintilan, N., Chen, J., Wu, W., Wen, L., Zhao, F., Zhang, T., Geng, Z., Yang, G., Song, C. & Zhuang, P. (2024). Rooting meta-ecosystems with reciprocal lateral carbon and nitrogen flows in a Yangtze coastal marsh. Environmental Research Letters, 19(10), Article 104056. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad73ea

Lovász, L., Sommer-Trembo, C., Barth, J. M. I., Scasta, J. D., Grancharova-Hill, R., Lemoine, R. T., Kerekes, V., Merckling, L., Bouskila, A., Svenning, J. C. & Fages, A. (2025). Rewilded horses in European nature conservation – a genetics, ethics, and welfare perspective. Biological Reviews, 100(1), 407-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13146

Plumanns-Pouton, E., Bakx, T. R. M., Buitenwerf, R., Espelta, J. M., Moreira, F., Regos, A., Selwyn, M. & Brotons, L. (2025). Restoring fire regimes through rewilding. Current Biology, 35(13), R670-R686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.026

Mata, J. C., Davison, C. W., Frøslev, T. G., Buitenwerf, R. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Resource partitioning in a novel herbivore assemblage in South America. Journal of Animal Ecology, 93(5), 606-618. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14069

Clauss, M., Roller, M., Bertelsen, M. F., Rudolf von Rohr, C., Müller, D. W. H., Schiffmann, C., Kummrow, M., Encke, D., Ferreira, S., Duvall, E. S., Maré, C. & Abraham, A. J. (2025). Reply to Ferraro et al. Breed-and-feed reflects inevitable trade-offs between individual longevity and population sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(26), Article e2509145122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2509145122

Magneville, C., Claverie, T. & Villéger, S. (2024). Remote video surveys unveil the diurnal variability of trophic-based processes by fishes on coral reefs. Coral Reefs, 43(2), 253-263. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-023-02436-x

Zymaroieva, A., Bondarev, D., Kunakh, O., Svenning, J. C. & Zhukov, O. (2025). Remote Sensing Reveals Multi-Dimensional Functional Changes in Fish Assemblages Under Eutrophication and Hydrological Stress. Fishes, 10(7), Article 338. https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes10070338

Kerr, M. R., Currie, N., Kosnik, M. A. & Alroy, J. (2025). Regional databases demonstrate macroecological patterns less clearly than systematically collected field data. Ecography, 2025(6), Article e07355. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07355

de Jong, M. J., Anaya, G., Niamir, A., Pérez-González, J., Broggini, C., del Pozo, A. M., Nebenfuehr, M., de la Peña, E., Ruiz-Olmo, J., Seoane, J. M., Vedel, G., Barboiron, A., Bartoš, L., Buzan, E., Carden, R. F., Darchiashvili, G., Frantz, A. C., Gačić, D., Gérard, A. ... Janke, A. (2025). Red Deer Resequencing Reveals the Importance of Sex Chromosomes for Reconstructing Late Quaternary Events. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 42(2), Article msaf031. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf031

Davoli, M., Kuemmerle, T., Monsarrat, S., Crees, J., Cristiano, A., Pacifici, M. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Recent Sociocultural Changes Reverse the Long-Term Trend of Declining Habitat Availability for Large Wild Mammals in Europe. Diversity and Distributions, 30(12), Article e13921. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13921

Moracho, E., Normand, S. & Ordonez, A. (2025). Rebuilding ecological networks: A multi-scale approach to global restoration. Biological Conservation, 312, Article 111477. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111477

Le Breton, T., Ooi, M. K. J., Hay, S., Atkinson, J., Bickerton, D., Cerato, S., Davies, R. J. P., Doyle, C., Gallagher, R., Ignacio, B., Keith, D., McCallum, M., McInnes, S. J., Sano, M., Thomsen, A., Waite, K. & Auld, T. D. (2025). Rapid assessments accurately identify threatened Australian flora under IUCN Red List Criteria after megafires. Biological Conservation, 307, Article 111183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111183

Zhou, S. Q., Yu, Z. W., Wu, W. B., Yang, W. J., Zhang, Y. J., Hao, Y. Y., Yuan, Q., Xu, D. F., Hu, J. Y. & Zhao, B. (2025). Quantifying cumulative cooling threshold of greenspaces using a newly developed 3D model across global cities. Remote Sensing of Environment, 328, Article 114867. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.114867

Lundgren, E. J., Wallach, A. D., Svenning, J. C., Schlaepfer, M. A., Andersson, A. L. A. & Ramp, D. (2024). Preventing extinction in an age of species migration and planetary change. Conservation Biology, 38(6), Article e14270. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14270

Fenollosa, E., Pang, S. E. H., Briscoe, N. J., Guisan, A. & Salguero-Gómez, R. (2025). Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change. Ecography. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecog.07775

Essl, F., García-Rodríguez, A., Lenzner, B., Alexander, J. M., Capinha, C., Gaüzère, P., Guisan, A., Kühn, I., Lenoir, J., Richardson, D. M., Rumpf, S. B., Svenning, J. C., Thuiller, W., Zurell, D. & Dullinger, S. (2024). Potential sources of time lags in calibrating species distribution models. Journal of Biogeography, 51(1), 89-102. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14726

Ahmed, A. S., Chala, D., Kufa, C. A., Atickem, A., Bekele, A., Svenning, J. C. & Zinner, D. (2023). Potential changes in the extent of suitable habitats for geladas (Theropithecus gelada) in the Anthropocene. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 23(1), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02173-3

Zymaroieva, A., Kolomiychuk, V., Fedoniuk, T., Goncharenko, I., Borsuk, O., Melnychuk, T. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Post-fire recovery of vegetation in the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve. International Journal of Environmental Studies, 81(1), 489-509. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2023.2287345

Zou, Y., Zohner, C. M., Ma, H., Merder, J., Berdugo, M., Bialic-Murphy, L., Mo, L., Zimmermann, N. E., Liang, J., de-Miguel, S., Nabuurs, G. J., Reich, P. B., Niinements, U., Dahlgren, J., Kändler, G., Ratcliffe, S., Ruiz-Benito, P., de Zavala, M. A., Crowther, T. W. & GFBI consortium (2024). Positive feedbacks and alternative stable states in forest leaf types. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 4658. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48676-5

Ma, X., Dong, R., Hughes, A., Corlett, R. T., Svenning, J. C. & Feng, G. (2024). Population trends are more strongly linked to environmental change and species traits in birds than mammals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2033), 20241395. Article 20241395. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.1395

Vandvik, V., Halbritter, A. H., Macias-Fauria, M., Maitner, B. S., Michaletz, S. T., Telford, R. J., Bison, N., Chacon-Labella, J., Cotner, S., Egelkraut, D., Garen, J., Gaudard, J., Geange, S. R., Rosati, M. A., Andersen, E. A. S., Ahler, S. J., Atkinson, J., Baumane, M., Bradler, P. M. ... Enquist, B. J. (2025). Plant traits and associated ecological data from global change experiments and climate gradients in Norway. Scientific Data, 12(1), Article 1477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05509-4

Halbritter, A. H., Vandvik, V., Bison, N. N., Clark, V. R., Cross, M., Greve, M., Kemppinen, J., Kühn, N., Maitner, B. S., Michaletz, S. T., Navarro, J., Niittynen, P., le Roux, P. C., White, J. D. M., Abebe, B. Y., Arzt, N. M., Baldaszti, L., Aragón, L., Beale, S. ... Enquist, B. J. (2025). Plant traits and associated ecological data from Afromontane grasslands of Maloti-Drakensberg, South Africa. Scientific Data, 12(1), 1778. Article 1778. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06045-x

Lemoine, R. T., Buitenwerf, R., Faurby, S. & Svenning, J. C. (2025). Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(7), Article e70078. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70078

Raymond, J., Schmitt, T. M., Tschol, M., Bakx, T. R. M., Brotons, L., Brown, C., Buitenwerf, R., Díaz-General, E., Ferretto, A., Kloibhofer, J., Laimer, T., Moreira, F., Pang, S. E. H., Plumanns-Pouton, E., Prestele, R., Smith, A. M., Svenning, J. C. & Rounsevell, M. (2025). Pathway narratives towards a nature-positive European Union land system: operationalising the Nature Futures Framework for policy objectives. Sustainability Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01737-0

Fahs, N., Axmanová, I., Svenning, J. C., Padullés Cubino, J., Biurrun, I., Boch, S., Campos, J. A., Čarni, A., Dengler, J., Garbolino, E., Heinken, T., Knotková, K. & Těšitel, J. (2025). Parasitic plants in Europe: ecological niches and spatial patterns. Plant Biology, 27(7), 1285-1299. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.70099

Kitagawa, K., Burger-Völlmecke, D., Brown, S., Olsen, J. & Riede, F. (2025). Paleolithic occupations in the Lahn Valley of Central Germany: New dating and ZooMS results from Wildscheuer, Wildweiberlei, and Wildhaus. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 61, Article 104951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104951

Kveiborg, J., Uzunidis, A., Klassen, L., Klimscha, F., Johannsen, N. N., Rasmussen, U. L., Richards, M. P. & Svenning, J.-C. (2024). Paleodiet reconstructions and human utilization of middle Holocene Equus ferus in northwest Europe. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 649, Article 112334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112334

Ma, F., Yan, Y., Svenning, J. C., Quan, Q., Peng, J., Zhang, R., Wang, J., Tian, D., Zhou, Q. & Niu, S. (2024). Opposing effects of warming on the stability of above- and belowground productivity in facing an extreme drought event. Ecology, 105(1), Article e4193. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4193

Nikulina, A., Zapolska, A., Serge, M. A., Roche, D. M., Mazier, F., Davoli, M., Pearce, E. A., Svenning, J. C., van Wees, D., Fyfe, R., MacDonald, K., Roebroeks, W. & Scherjon, F. (2025). On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared. PLoS One, 20(10 October), Article e0328218. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328218

Kusumoto, B., Chao, A., Eiserhardt, W. L., Svenning, J. C., Shiono, T. & Kubota, Y. (2023). Occurrence-based diversity estimation reveals macroecological and conservation knowledge gaps for global woody plants. Science Advances, 9(40), Article eadh9719. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh9719

Serra-Diaz, J. M., Borderieux, J., Maitner, B., Boonman, C. C. F., Park, D., Guo, W. Y., Callebaut, A., Enquist, B. J., Svenning, J. C. & Merow, C. (2024). occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(7), Article e13847. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13847

Fehr, V., Moretti, M., Pezzatti, G. B., Guidotti, G., Rasmann, S., Handa, I. T., Buitenwerf, R. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Non-native palm affects arthropod communities and litter decomposition in an ongoing biome shift. Global Ecology and Conservation, 56, Article e03303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03303

Li, L., Teng, S. N., Zhang, Y., Li, Y., Wang, H., Santana, J., Reino, L., Abades, S., Svenning, J. C. & Xu, C. (2023). Neighbourhood landscape context shapes local species richness patterns across continents. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(6), 867-880. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13668

Magalhães, A. R., Codeço, C. T., Svenning, J. C., Escobar, L. E., Van de Vuurst, P. & Gonçalves-Souza, T. (2023). Neglected tropical diseases risk correlates with poverty and early ecosystem destruction. Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 12(1), Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-023-01084-1

Svenning, J. C., McGeoch, M. A., Normand, S., Ordonez, A. & Riede, F. (2024). Navigating ecological novelty towards planetary stewardship: challenges and opportunities in biodiversity dynamics in a transforming biosphere. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1902), Article 20230008. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0008

Delavaux, C. S., Crowther, T. W., Zohner, C. M., Robmann, N. M., Lauber, T., van den Hoogen, J., Kuebbing, S., Liang, J., de-Miguel, S., Nabuurs, G. J., Reich, P. B., Abegg, M., Adou Yao, Y. C., Alberti, G., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Alvarado, B. V., Alvarez-Dávila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Alves, L. F. ... Maynard, D. S. (2023). Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions. Nature, 621(7980), 773-781. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06440-7

Boonman, C. C. F., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Hoeks, S., Guo, W. Y., Enquist, B. J., Maitner, B., Malhi, Y., Merow, C., Buitenwerf, R. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change. Nature Communications, 15, Article 166. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44321-9

Ejaz, U., Khan, S. M., Jehangir, S., Ahmad, Z., Abdullah, A., Iqbal, M., Khalid, N., Nazir, A. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Monitoring the Industrial waste polluted stream - Integrated analytics and machine learning for water quality index assessment. Journal of Cleaner Production, 450, Article 141877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.141877

Kemppinen, J., Lembrechts, J. J., Van Meerbeek, K., Carnicer, J., Chardon, N. I., Kardol, P., Lenoir, J., Liu, D., Maclean, I., Pergl, J., Saccone, P., Senior, R. A., Shen, T., Słowińska, S., Vandvik, V., von Oppen, J., Aalto, J., Ayalew, B., Bates, O. ... De Frenne, P. (2024). Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(6), Article e13834. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13834

Trepel, J., le Roux, E., Abraham, A. J., Buitenwerf, R., Kamp, J., Kristensen, J. A., Tietje, M., Lundgren, E. J. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Meta-analysis shows that wild large herbivores shape ecosystem properties and promote spatial heterogeneity. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8(4), 705-716. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02327-6

Mungi, N. A., Jhala, Y. V., Qureshi, Q., le Roux, E. & Svenning, J. C. (2023). Megaherbivores provide biotic resistance against alien plant dominance. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7(10), 1645-1653. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02181-y

Lemoine, R. T., Buitenwerf, R. & Svenning, J. C. (2023). Megafauna extinctions in the late-Quaternary are linked to human range expansion, not climate change. Anthropocene, 44, Article 100403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2023.100403

Davoli, M., Monsarrat, S., Pedersen, R. Ø., Scussolini, P., Karger, D. N., Normand, S. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Megafauna diversity and functional declines in Europe from the Last Interglacial to the present. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(1), 34-47. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13778

Bergin, M. D., Pedersen, R. Ø., Jensen, M. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Mapping rewilding potential: A systematic approach to prioritise areas for rewilding in human-dominated regions. Journal for Nature Conservation, 77, Article 126536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2023.126536

Aznarez, C., Svenning, J.-C., Pacheco Esnal, J. P., Kallesøe, F. H., Baró, F. & Pascual, U. (2023). Luxury and legacy effects on urban biodiversity, vegetation cover and ecosystem services. npj Urban Sustainability, 3(1), Article 47. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-023-00128-7

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