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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Horsdal, H. T., Pedersen, M. G., Schullehner, J., Østergaard, C. S., Mcgrath, J. J., Agerbo, E., Timmermann, A., Closter, A. M., Brandt, J., Christensen, J. H., Frohn, L. M., Geels, C., Ketzel, M., Khan, J., Ørby, P. V., Olsen, Y., Levin, G., Svenning, J.-C., Engemann, K. ... Pedersen, C. B. (2024). Perspectives on environment and health research in Denmark. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 52(6), 741-751. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948231178076

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

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

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

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