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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

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

Fahimi, H., Soofi, M., Ahmadi, N., Qashqaei, A. T., Heidari, H., Bungum, H., Rech, B., Trepel, J. & Waltert, M. (2024). Distribution, behavior and diet of the Asiatic black bear in human modified landscapes. Basic and Applied Ecology, 80, 23-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2024.07.003

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Guo, W. Y., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Eiserhardt, W. L., Maitner, B. S., Merow, C., Violle, C., Pound, M. J., Sun, M., Slik, F., Blach-Overgaard, A., Enquist, B. J. & Svenning, J. C. (2023). Climate change and land use threaten global hotspots of phylogenetic endemism for trees. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 6950. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42671-y

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hordijk, I., Bialic-Murphy, L., Lauber, T., Routh, D., Poorter, L., Rivers, M. C., ter Steege, H., 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. ... Crowther, T. W. (2024). Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(10), Article e13889. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13889

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

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

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

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

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

Kalusová, V., Čeplová, N., Danihelka, J., Večeřa, M., Pyšek, P., Albert, A., Anastasiu, P., Biurrun, I., Boch, S., Cottaz, C., Essl, F., Kuzemko, A., Maslo, S., Mifsud, S., Protopopova, V. V., Shevera, M., Sîrbu, C., Svenning, J. C., Welk, E. & Axmanová, I. (2024). Alien plants of Europe: an overview of national and regional inventories. Preslia, 96(2), 149-182. https://doi.org/10.23855/preslia.2024.149

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

Kerr, M. R. & Alroy, J. (2023). Body size and abundance are decoupled from species richness in Australian marine bivalves. Frontiers of Biogeography, 15(4), Article e58651. https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG58651

Kerr, M. R., Ordonez, A., Riede, F. & Svenning, J. C. (2024). A biogeographic–macroecological perspective on the rising novelty of the biosphere in the Anthropocene. Journal of Biogeography, 51(4), 575-587. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14762

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

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

Kerr, M. R., Svenning, J. C., Riede, F., Buitenwerf, R., Abraham, A. J., Marjakangas, E. L., Sykut, M. & Ordonez, A. (2026). The making of novel ecosystems: A process-based framework for measurement, analysis and application. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70255

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lenoir, J., Svenning, J. C. & Sheffer, M. M. (2024). Latitudinal and Elevational Range Shifts Under Contemporary Climate Change. In Encyclopedia of Biodiversity: Volume 3 (3 ed., Vol. 3, pp. 690-709). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822562-2.00386-8

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Gustav Emil Wester

Department of Biology

Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere

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