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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

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

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

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

Pedersen, R. Ø., Faurby, S. & Svenning, J. C. (2023). Late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions have strongly reduced mammalian vegetation consumption. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(10), 1814-1826. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13723

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rowan, J., Du, A., Lundgren, E. J., Faith, J. T., Beaudrot, L., Campisano, C. J., Joordens, J. C., Lazagabaster, I. A., Locke, E. M., Smail, I. E., Reed, K. E. & Kamilar, J. M. (2024). Long-term biotic homogenization in the East African Rift System over the last 6 million years of hominin evolution. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8(9), 1751-1759. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02462-0

Saavedra, D., Fernández, N. & Svenning, J. C. (2023). Addressing challenges for large-scale trophic rewilding. Journal for Nature Conservation, 73, Article 126382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2023.126382

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

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

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

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

Schweiger, A. H. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). Climatic disequilibrium in tree cover is frequent in protected areas worldwide — implications for conservation and restoration. Journal of Vegetation Science, 35(4), Article e13298. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13298

Seeley, M. M., Wiebe, B. C., Asner, G. P., Abraham, A. J., Cooper, H. F., Gehring, C. A., Hultine, K. R., Allan, G. J., Whitham, T. G., Goulden, T. & Doughty, C. E. (2026). Why do classification models go wrong? The importance of adaptations and acclimations in driving landscape-level spectral variation in Fremont cottonwood. Remote Sensing of Environment, 334, Article 115240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2026.115240

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spence, M. A., Martindale, J. A., Alliji, K., Bannister, H. J., Thorpe, R. B., Walker, N. D., Mitchell, P. J., Kerr, M. R. & Dolder, P. J. (2024). Assessing the effect of multispecies interactions on precautionary reference points using an ensemble modelling approach: A North Sea case study. Fisheries Research, 280, Article 107160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2024.107160

Straarup, M., Svenning, J. C., Normand, S. & Dalgaard, T. (2026). Digging diversity: Constructed dune lakes support high plant richness but differ compositionally from natural systems. Ecological Engineering, 226, Article 107935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2026.107935

Sun, S., Cotrufo, M. F., Viscarra Rossel, R. A., Mueller, C. W., Kida, M., Hardie, A. G., Mackay, A., Krichels, A. H., Amelung, W., Kumar, A., Suleymanov, A., Shi, B., Cosby, B. J., Plaza, C., Terrer, C., Liang, C., Liao, C., Just, C., Guo, D. ... Chen, J. (2026). Global hotspots of particulate organic carbon losses under climate change. Nature Communications. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71321-2

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

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

Svenning, J. C., Kerr, M. R., Mungi, N. A., Ordonez, A. & Riede, F. (2024). Defining the Anthropocene as a geological epoch captures human impacts’ triphasic nature to empower science and action. One Earth, 7(10), 1678-1681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.08.004

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

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

Teng, S. N., Svenning, J. C. & Xu, C. (2023). Large mammals and trees in eastern monsoonal China: anthropogenic losses since the Late Pleistocene and restoration prospects in the Anthropocene. Biological Reviews, 98(5), 1607-1632. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12968

Thomassen, E. E., Sigsgaard, E. E., Jensen, M. R., Olsen, K., Hansen, M. D. D., Svenning, J.-C. & Thomsen, P. F. (2023). Contrasting seasonal patterns in diet and dung-associated invertebrates of feral cattle and horses in a rewilding area. Molecular Ecology, 32(8), 2071-2091. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16847

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

Tian, Z., Chen, W., Maimaiti, M., Akberjan, E., Ni, M., Su, Z., Liu, B. & Lv, H. (2024). Climate and soil nutrients generate distinct diversity patterns across four elevational gradients within the same region. Acta Oecologica, 124, Article 104018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2024.104018

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

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

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

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

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

Tutova, H., Lisovets, O., Kunakh, O., Zymaroieva, A., Svenning, J. C. & Zhukov, O. (2026). Functional Diversity Indices and Aquatic Macrophyte Community Assembly: Case Study of Dnipro–Orilsky Nature Reserve, Ukraine. Sustainability (Switzerland), 18(2), Article 939. https://doi.org/10.3390/su18020939

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

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

Wang, L., Wei, F. & Svenning, J. C. (2023). Accelerated cropland expansion into high integrity forests and protected areas globally in the 21st century. iScience, 26(4), Article 106450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106450

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

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Gustav Emil Wester

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Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere

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