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Trepel, J., Abraham, A. J., Di Nicola, W., Gélin, U., Gahbauer, M., Heurich, M. & le Roux, E. (2025). Intensive feeding modifies nutrient patterns in a strictly protected area. Journal of Environmental Management, 391, Article 126572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126572

Ejaz, U., Khan, S. M., Shah, S. F. A., Khalid, N., Jehangir, S., Rizvi, Z. F. & Svenning, J. C. (2025). Integrative data-driven analytics for assessing ecological and human health risks of soil heavy metal contamination. Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances, 17, Article 100596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazadv.2025.100596, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazadv.2025.100596

Yang, Y., Shrestha, N., Song, X., Ni, M., Liu, X., Wu, J., Liu, J. & Svenning, J. C. (2025). Integrating specimen and citizen science data reveals climatic niche expansion and shifts of naturalized plants in China. New Phytologist. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70680

Atkinson, J., Gallagher, R., Czyżewski, S., Kerr, M., Trepel, J., Buitenwerf, R. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Integrating functional traits into trophic rewilding science. Journal of Ecology, 112(5), 936-953. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14307

Mo, L., Zohner, C. M., Reich, P. B., Liang, J., de Miguel, S., Nabuurs, G. J., Renner, S. S., van den Hoogen, J., Araza, A., Herold, M., Mirzagholi, L., Ma, H., Averill, C., Phillips, O. L., Gamarra, J. G. P., Hordijk, I., Routh, D., Abegg, M., Adou Yao, Y. C. ... Crowther, T. W. (2023). Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential. Nature, 624(7990), 92-101. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06723-z

Sanchez-Martinez, P., Mencuccini, M., García-Valdés, R., Hammond, W. M., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Guo, W. Y., Segovia, R. A., Dexter, K. G., Svenning, J. C., Allen, C. & Martínez-Vilalta, J. (2023). Increased hydraulic risk in assemblages of woody plant species predicts spatial patterns of drought-induced mortality. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7(10), 1620-1632. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02180-z

Nuñez, M. A., August, T., Bacher, S., Galil, B. S., Hulme, P. E., Ikeda, T., McGeoch, M. A., Ordonez, A., Rahlao, S., Truong, T. R., Pauchard, A., Roy, H. E., Sankaran, K. V., Schwindt, E., Seebens, H., Sheppard, A. W., Stoett, P., Vandvik, V. & Meyerson, L. A. (2024). Including a diverse set of voices to address biological invasions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 39(5), 409-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.02.009

Thomassen, E. S., Olsen, K., Hansen, M. D. D., Svenning, J.-C. & Thomsen, P. F. (2025). Impacts of proactive health management on cattle and horse diets and dung biodiversity in Danish rewilding areas. Journal of Applied Ecology, 62(8), 1856-1877. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70082

Parracciani, C., Buitenwerf, R. & Svenning, J. C. (2023). Impacts of Climate Change on Vegetation in Kenya: Future Projections and Implications for Protected Areas. Land, 12(11), Article 2052. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12112052

Vogel, S. M., Vasudev, D., Ogutu, J. O., Taek, P., Berti, E., Goswami, V. R., Kaelo, M., Buitenwerf, R., Munk, M., Li, W., Wall, J., Chala, D., Amoke, I., Odingo, A. & Svenning, J. C. (2023). Identifying sustainable coexistence potential by integrating willingness-to-coexist with habitat suitability assessments. Biological Conservation, 279, Article 109935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.109935

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

He, F., Zarfl, C., Tockner, K., Olden, J. D., Campos, Z., Muniz, F., Svenning, J. C. & Jähnig, S. C. (2024). Hydropower impacts on riverine biodiversity. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 5(11), 755-772. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00596-0

Nikulina, A., MacDonald, K., Zapolska, A., Serge, M. A., Roche, D. M., Mazier, F., Davoli, M., Svenning, J. C., van Wees, D., Pearce, E. A., Fyfe, R., Roebroeks, W. & Scherjon, F. (2024). Hunter-gatherer impact on European interglacial vegetation: A modelling approach. Quaternary Science Reviews, 324, Article 108439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108439

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

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

Pearce, E. A., Mazier, F., Fyfe, R., Davison, C. W., Normand, S., Serge, M. A., Scussolini, P. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Higher abundance of disturbance-favoured trees and shrubs in European temperate woodlands prior to the late-quaternary extinction of megafauna. Journal of Ecology, 112(12), 2813-2827. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14422

Barbero-Palacios, L., Barrio, I. C., García Criado, M., Kater, I., Petit Bon, M., Kolari, T. H. M., Bjørkås, R., Trepel, J., Lundgren, E., Björnsdóttir, K., Hwang, B. C., Bartra-Cabré, L., Defourneaux, M., Ramsay, J., Lameris, T. K., Leffler, A. J., Lock, J. G., Kuoppamaa, M. S., Kristensen, J. A. ... Soininen, E. M. (2024). Herbivore diversity effects on Arctic tundra ecosystems: a systematic review. Environmental Evidence, 13(1), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-024-00330-9

Wooldridge, B., Svenning, J. C. & Pagh, S. (2024). Habitat selection and movement patterns of the Raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) in Denmark using GPS telemetry data. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 70(4), Article 64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-024-01803-5

Li, Y., Svenning, J. C., Zhou, W., Zhu, K., Abrams, J. F., Lenton, T. M., Ripple, W. J., Yu, Z., Teng, S. N., Dunn, R. R. & Xu, C. (2024). Green spaces provide substantial but unequal urban cooling globally. Nature Communications, 15, Article 7108. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51355-0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wooster, EI. F., Lundgren, EJ., Balisi, M., Lemoine, RT., Sandom, CJ., Svenning, J. C., Rowan, J., Jolly, CJ., Linley, GD., Cowan, M. A., Wright, N., Westaway, D., Nimmo, D., Nichols, H. & Middleton, OS. (2024). Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(12), Article e13909. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13909

Lundgren, E. J., Bergman, J., Trepel, J., Roux, E. L., Monsarrat, S., Kristensen, J. A., Pedersen, R. Ø., Pereyra, P., Tietje, M. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Functional traits—not nativeness—shape the effects of large mammalian herbivores on plant communities. Science, 383(6682), 531-537. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh2616

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

He, F., Svenning, J. C., Chen, X., Tockner, K., Kuemmerle, T., le Roux, E., Moleón, M., Gessner, J. & Jähnig, S. C. (2024). Freshwater megafauna shape ecosystems and facilitate restoration. Biological Reviews, 99(4), 1141-1163. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13062

Marjakangas, E. L. (2024). Food webs: Where is the uniqueness? Current Biology, 34(5), R197-R199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.005

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

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

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

Marciszak, A., Mackiewicz, P., Borówka, R. K., Capalbo, C., Chibowski, P., Gąsiorowski, M., Hercman, H., Cedro, B., Kropczyk, A., Gornig, W., Moska, P., Nowakowski, D., Ratajczak-Skrzatek, U., Sobczyk, A., Sykut, M. T., Zarzecka-Szubińska, K., Kovalchuk, O., Barkaszi, Z., Stefaniak, K. & Mazza, P. P. A. (2024). Fate and preservation of the late pleistocene cave bears from Niedźwiedzia Cave in Poland, through taphonomy, pathology, and geochemistry. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 9775. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-60222-3

Senty, P., Guzinski, R., Grogan, K., Buitenwerf, R., Ardö, J., Eklundh, L., Koukos, A., Tagesson, T. & Munk, M. (2024). Fast Fusion of Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 Time Series over Rangelands. Remote Sensing, 16(11), Article 1833. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16111833

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

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

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

Ejaz, U., Khan, S. M., Khalid, N., Jehangir, S., Ali Shah, S. F. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Elucidating the phytoremediation potentials and ecophysiological mechanisms of indicator plants in the industrial polluted region. Journal of Environmental Management, 366, Article 121821. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121821

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

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

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

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

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

Wen, L., Zhao, K., Sun, H., Feng, G., Sun, Q., Liang, C., Li, Z., Wang, L. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Drivers of desert plant beta diversity on the Qinghai–Tibet plateau. Ecology and Evolution, 14(2), Article e10993. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10993

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Gustav Emil Wester

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Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere

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