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Ma, F., Zhang, R., Svenning, J. C., Zhang, F., He, Y., Wang, J., Tian, D., Zhou, Q. & Niu, S. (2024). Decoupled responses of the stability of above- and belowground productivity to drought and clipping in an alpine meadow. Journal of Ecology, 112(11), 2585-2597. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14389

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

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

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

Magneville, C., Cartereau, M., Hernández-Agüero, J. A., Silva, E., Marjakangas, E. L., Moracho Martinez, E., Biffoni, G., Casazza, G., Kati, V. I., Kokkoris, I. P., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Médail, F., Millon, A., Nève, G., Riva, F., Soliveres, S., Zografou, K., Olsen, K., Svenning, J. C. ... Ordonez, A. (2025). Echoes of the Past: Long-Term Climate Stability Shapes Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity in Euro-Mediterranean Forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(12), Article e70177. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70177

Maitner, B., Gallagher, R., Svenning, J. C., Tietje, M., Wenk, E. H. & Eiserhardt, W. L. (2023). A global assessment of the Raunkiaeran shortfall in plants: geographic biases in our knowledge of plant traits. New Phytologist, 240(4), 1345-1354. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18999

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

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

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

Marjakangas, E. L., Johnston, A., Santangeli, A. & Lehikoinen, A. (2024). Bird species' tolerance to human pressures and associations with population change. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(5), Article e13816. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13816

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

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

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

Mata, J. C., Svenning, J. C., Chequín, R. N., Davalos, M., Salas, R., Vucko, A. & Buitenwerf, R. (2025). Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) Generate Grazing Lawns and Maintain Plant Diversity in Neotropical Savanna. Applied Vegetation Science, 28(1), Article e70013. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.70013

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

McGeoch, M. A., Clarke, D. A., Mungi, N. A. & Ordonez, A. (2024). A nature-positive future with biological invasions: theory, decision support and research needs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1902), Article 20230014. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0014

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

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

Midolo, G., Axmanová, I., Divíšek, J., Dřevojan, P., Lososová, Z., Večeřa, M., Karger, D. N., Thuiller, W., Bruelheide, H., Aćić, S., Attorre, F., Biurrun, I., Boch, S., Bonari, G., Čarni, A., Chiarucci, A., Ćušterevska, R., Dengler, J., Dziuba, T. ... Chytrý, M. (2024). Diversity and distribution of Raunkiær's life forms in European vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science, 35(1), Article e13229. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13229

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

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

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

Mogensen, N., Packer, C., Svenning, J. C., Amoke, I. & Buitenwerf, R. (2025). Balancing benefits and burdens: Tourist camps and lion conservation in the Maasai Mara. Conservation Science and Practice, Article e70210. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70210

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

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

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

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

Mungi, N. A., Rastogi, R., Jhala, Y. V., Qureshi, Q. & Svenning, J. C. (2025). Brave New Wild: Restoring Biodiversity and Values Amid Invaded Landscapes of India. In Ecological Restoration in India: Perspective and Practices (pp. 153-175). Springer Science + Business Media. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-8943-9_8

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

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

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

Pagh, S., de Jonge, N., Østergaard, S. K., Pertoldi, C., Wooldridge, B., Laustsen, A. M., Svenning, J. C., Pedersen, M. F., Larsen, H. L., Nielsen, J. L. & Toft, S. (2025). Diet of raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) in Danish wetlands with focus on ground-nesting birds and amphibians. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 71(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-024-01886-0

Pang, S. E. H., Slik, J. W. F., Chisholm, R. A. & Webb, E. L. (2024). Conserving Southeast Asian trees requires mitigating both climate and land-use change. Nature Sustainability, 7(10), 1313-1323. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01417-4

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

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

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

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Gustav Emil Wester

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Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere

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