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List of works by Nathan G. Swenson

A Reframing of Trait–Demographic Rate Analyses for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

scientific article published in 2020

A core-transient framework for trait-based community ecology: an example from a tropical tree seedling community

scientific article published on 3 April 2017

A general integrative model for scaling plant growth, carbon flux, and functional trait spectra

scientific article published in September 2007

A phylogenetic and trait-based analysis of community assembly in a subtropical forest in central China

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

A phylogenetic perspective on the individual species-area relationship in temperate and tropical tree communities

scientific article

A well-resolved phylogeny of the trees of Puerto Rico based on DNA barcode sequence data

scientific article

Above-ground forest biomass is not consistently related to wood density in tropical forests

scientific article published in 2009

Advances in the use of DNA barcodes to build a community phylogeny for tropical trees in a Puerto Rican forest dynamics plot

scientific article

Alternative designs and tropical tree seedling growth performance landscapes

scientific article published on 07 February 2020

An horizon scan of biogeography

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Analyses of three‐dimensional species associations reveal departures from neutrality in a tropical forest

scientific article published in 2022

Associations among arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and seedlings are predicted to change with tree successional status

scientific article

Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of Neotropical forests

article published in 2017

Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of Neotropical forests

scientific article published in 2018

Biogeography and evolutionary diversification in one of the most widely distributed and species rich genera of the Pacific

scientific article

Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics

scientific article

Changes in Phylogenetic Community Structure of the Seedling Layer Following Hurricane Disturbance in a Human-Impacted Tropical Forest

Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

Climate shapes and shifts functional biodiversity in forests worldwide

scientific article published on 24 December 2018

Closely-related taxa influence woody species discrimination via DNA barcoding: evidence from global forest dynamics plots

scientific article published on 12 October 2015

Clustering of contact zones, hybrid zones, and phylogeographic breaks in North America

scientific article

Commonness, rarity, and intraspecific variation in traits and performance in tropical tree seedlings

scientific article published on 28 September 2015

Community transcriptomics, genomics and the problem of species co‐occurrence

scientific article published on 18 April 2017

Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach

scientific article

Comparative transcriptomics of tropical woody plants supports fast and furious strategy along the leaf economics spectrum in lianas

scientific article published on 15 July 2022

Constancy in Functional Space across a Species Richness Anomaly.

scientific article

Contrasting outcomes of species- and community-level analyses of the temporal consistency of functional composition.

scientific article

Convergent effects of elevation on functional leaf traits within and among species

article

Corrigendum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scientific article published in Nature

Corrigendum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scholarly article published in Nature

Covariation in plant functional traits and soil fertility within two species-rich forests

scientific article

Demographic drivers of successional changes in phylogenetic structure across life-history stages in plant communities

article

Determinants of species abundance for eastern North American trees

scientific article published on 26 March 2014

Deterministic tropical tree community turnover: evidence from patterns of functional beta diversity along an elevational gradient.

scientific article published on 22 September 2010

Differential impacts of adult trees on offspring and non-offspring recruits in a subtropical forest

scientific article published in 2022

Differential soil fungus accumulation and density dependence of trees in a subtropical forest

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Disentangling the drivers of β diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients.

scientific article

Do suture zones exist?

scientific article published in November 2004

Does trait variation within broadly distributed species mirror patterns across species? A case study in Puerto Rico

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Drivers of soil microbial community assembly during recovery from selective logging and clear‐cutting

scientific article published in 2021

Drought and the interannual variability of stem growth in an aseasonal, everwet forest

Dry conditions and disturbance promote liana seedling survival and abundance

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Eco-evolutionary differences in light utilization traits and distributions of freshwater phytoplankton

scientific article published on 16 February 2011

Ecological and evolutionary determinants of a key plant functional trait: wood density and its community-wide variation across latitude and elevation

scientific article

Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: a test case with 14 Neotropical forest sites

article

Exploring tree-habitat associations in a Chinese subtropical forest plot using a molecular phylogeny generated from DNA barcode loci

scientific article

Forest tree neighborhoods are structured more by negative conspecific density dependence than by interactions among closely related species

scientific article published in 2017

ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

scientific article

Functional and phylogenetic assembly in a Chinese tropical tree community across size classes, spatial scales and habitats

scientific article published on 08 October 2013

Functional beta-diversity patterns reveal deterministic community assembly processes in eastern North American trees

scientific article published in 2012

Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait–climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities

scientific article published on 25 May 2021

Functional composition drives ecosystem function through multiple mechanisms in a broadleaved subtropical forest

scientific article

Functional convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico

scientific article published on 10 November 2015

Functional groups, determinism and the dynamics of a tropical forest

scientific article published on 22 October 2021

Functional perspectives on tropical tree demography and forest dynamics

scientific article published on 08 January 2019

Functional trait assembly through ecological and evolutionary time

scientific article published in 2009

Functional trait space and redundancy of plant communities decrease toward cold temperature at high altitudes in Southwest China

scientific article published in 2022

Functional trait space of forest passerine bird assemblages along a latitudinal gradient in China

scientific article published on 09 May 2021

Functional traits of young seedlings predict trade‐offs in seedling performance in three neotropical forests

scientific article published on 18 October 2023

Global patterns in plant height

article

Herbaceous monocot plant form and function along a tropical rain-forest light gradient: a reversal of dicot strategy

scientific article published on 15 December 2008

Herbaceous monocot plant form and function along a tropical rain-forest light gradient: a reversal of dicot strategy – CORRIGENDUM

scientific article published in 2009

High plant endemism in China is partially linked to reduced glacial-interglacial climate change

article

Historical anthropogenic footprints in the distribution of threatened plants in China

scientific article published on 26 July 2016

How does habitat filtering affect the detection of conspecific and phylogenetic density dependence?

scientific article published on May 2016

Improving predictions of tropical tree survival and growth by incorporating measurements of whole leaf allocation

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Individual‐level trait variation and negative density dependence affect growth in tropical tree seedlings

scientific article published on 30 April 2018

Interactions between abiotic gradients determine functional and phylogenetic diversity patterns in Mediterranean-type climate mountains in the Andes

Interannual variability of growth and reproduction in Bursera simaruba: the role of allometry and resource variability

scientific article published in January 2012

Interspecific Functional Convergence and Divergence and Intraspecific Negative Density Dependence Underlie the Seed-to-Seedling Transition in Tropical Trees

scientific article published on January 2016

Intra-specific relatedness, spatial clustering and reduced demographic performance in tropical rainforest trees

scientific article published on 20 May 2018

Intraspecific variation in traits and tree growth along an elevational gradient in a subtropical forest

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

Intraspecific variation in tree growth responses to neighbourhood composition and seasonal drought in a tropical forest

scientific article

Lack of phylogenetic signals within environmental niches of tropical tree species across life stages

scientific article published on 09 February 2017

Large‐ and small‐seeded species have contrasting functional neighborhoods in a subtropical forest

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

Latitudinal patterns of range size and species richness of New World woody plants

article

Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

Life-history trade-offs during the seed-to-seedling transition in a subtropical wet forest community

scientific article published in 2012

Linking Patterns and Processes of Tree Community Assembly Across Spatial Scales in Tropical Montane Forests

scientific article published in 2020

Linking functional traits and demographic rates in a subtropical tree community: the importance of size dependency

scientific article published in 2014

Linking individual-level functional traits to tree growth in a subtropical forest

scientific article published on September 2016

Linking leaf veins to growth and mortality rates: an example from a subtropical tree community

scientific article

Linking patterns and processes of tree community assembly across spatial scales in tropical montane forests

scientific article published on 18 April 2020

Local neighbourhood and regional climatic contexts interact to explain tree performance.

scientific article published in May 2017

Local-scale Partitioning of Functional and Phylogenetic Beta Diversity in a Tropical Tree Assemblage

scientific article published on 3 August 2015

Long‐term shifts in the functional composition and diversity of a tropical dry forest: a 30‐yr study

scientific article

Maple phylogeny and biogeography inferred from phylogenomic data ⬇️

scientific article

Mapping the suturing of a continental biota

scientific article

Mechanisms underlying local functional and phylogenetic beta diversity in two temperate forests

scientific article published on April 2015

Navigating the multiple meanings of β diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist.

scientific article

Neighbourhood defence gene similarity effects on tree performance: a community transcriptomic approach

article

On the modeling of tropical tree growth: the importance of intra-specific trait variation, non-linear functions and phenotypic integration

scientific article published on 03 May 2020

On the packing and filling of functional space in eastern North American tree assemblages

scientific article published on 15 July 2014

Ontogenetic shifts in trait-mediated mechanisms of plant community assembly

scientific article published on August 2015

Ontogenetic trait variation and metacommunity effects influence species relative abundances during tree community assembly

scientific article

Opposing assembly mechanisms in a neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology

scientific article

Phylogenetic Analyses of Ecological Communities Using DNA Barcode Data ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Phylogenetic Beta Diversity Metrics, Trait Evolution and Inferring the Functional Beta Diversity of Communities ⬇️

scientific article published on June 24, 2011

Phylogenetic alpha and beta diversity in tropical tree assemblages along regional-scale environmental gradients in northwest South America

scientific article published in 2014

Phylogenetic analysis of local-scale tree soil associations in a lowland moist tropical forest

scientific article

Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities

article

Phylogenetic and functional diversity area relationships in two temperate forests

article

Phylogenetic beta diversity of angiosperms in North America

scientific article published on 27 May 2013

Phylogenetic imputation of plant functional trait databases

scientific article published on 11 October 2013

Phylogenetic resolution and quantifying the phylogenetic diversity and dispersion of communities

scientific article

Phylogeny and the prediction of tree functional diversity across novel continental settings

scholarly article by Nathan G Swenson et al published 13 January 2017 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Plant DNA barcodes and a community phylogeny of a tropical forest dynamics plot in Panama

scientific article

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Plant geography upon the basis of functional traits: an example from eastern North American trees.

scientific article

Precipitation mediates sap flux sensitivity to evaporative demand in the neotropics

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

Quantifying the role of intra‐specific trait variation for allocation and organ‐level traits in tropical seedling communities

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

Relating leaf traits to seedling performance in a tropical forest: building a hierarchical functional framework

scientific article published on 09 May 2021

Remotely sensed assessment of increasing chronic and episodic drought effects on a Costa Rican tropical dry forest

scientific article published on 15 November 2021

Spatial scale dependence of factors driving climate regulation services in the Americas

scientific article published in 2018

Species-time-area and phylogenetic-time-area relationships in tropical tree communities

scientific article

Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities

scientific article published in 2012

Stochastic assembly in a subtropical forest chronosequence: evidence from contrasting changes of species, phylogenetic and functional dissimilarity over succession

scientific article published on 07 September 2016

Stochastic dilution effects weaken deterministic effects of niche-based processes in species rich forests

scientific article

Strategies of tolerance reflected in two North American maple genomes

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Taller plants have lower rates of molecular evolution

scientific article published on January 2013

Taxonomic decomposition of the latitudinal gradient in species diversity of North American floras

article published in 2017

Temporal Changes in Tree Species and Trait Composition in a Cyclone-prone Pacific Dipterocarp Forest

article

Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity

scientific article

Testing the metabolic theory of ecology

scientific article published on 30 August 2012

The Frequency of Cyclonic Wind Storms Shapes Tropical Forest Dynamism and Functional Trait Dispersion

article by J. Hogan et al published 5 July 2018 in Forests

The Functional Ecology and Diversity of Tropical Tree Assemblages through Space and Time: From Local to Regional and from Traits to Transcriptomes

The assembly of tropical tree communities - the advances and shortcomings of phylogenetic and functional trait analyses

scientific article published on 24 January 2013

The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

article

The contribution of rare species to community phylogenetic diversity across a global network of forest plots

scientific article

The environment and space, not phylogeny, determine trait dispersion in a subtropical forest

scientific article published on 17 January 2013

The geographic and climatic distribution of plant height diversity for 19,000 angiosperms in China

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The influence of spatial and size scale on phylogenetic relatedness in tropical forest communities

scientific article

The problem and promise of scale dependency in community phylogenetics

scientific article published in October 2006

The relationship between stem and branch wood specific gravity and the ability of each measure to predict leaf area

scientific article

The role of evolutionary processes in producing biodiversity patterns, and the interrelationships between taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic biodiversity ⬇️

scientific article published on February 17, 2011

The role of functional uniqueness and spatial aggregation in explaining rarity in trees

scientific article published in 2017

The scale dependency of trait‐based tree neighborhood models

scientific article published on 05 April 2020

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scientific article with two erratum

Topography and Traits Modulate Tree Performance and Drought Response in a Tropical Forest

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

scientific article published on 20 February 2009

Towards linking species traits to demography and assembly in diverse tree communities: Revisiting the importance of size and allocation

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Trade‐offs in above‐ and below‐ground biomass allocation influencing seedling growth in a tropical forest

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Trait similarity, shared ancestry and the structure of neighbourhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly

scientific article published on 5 November 2010

Traits mediate a trade‐off in seedling growth response to light and conspecific density in a diverse subtropical forest

scientific article

Tree Seedling Trait Optimization and Growth in Response to Local‐Scale Soil and Light Variability

scientific article published in 2021

Tree co-occurrence and transcriptomic response to drought.

scientific article

Tree crown overlap improves predictions of the functional neighbourhood effects on tree survival and growth

scientific article published on 16 September 2018

Tree height-diameter allometry across the United States

scientific article

Tree seedling trait optimization and growth in response to local-scale soil and light variability

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Variation in above-ground forest biomass across broad climatic gradients

scientific article published in 2011

Variation in leaf functional trait values within and across individuals and species: an example from a Costa Rican dry forest

scientific article published on 22 July 2009

Variation of tropical forest assembly processes across regional environmental gradients

scientific article published on 01 October 2016

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

article

Why Functional Traits Do Not Predict Tree Demographic Rates

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

Why wood density varies across communities

scientific article published on 21 January 2017

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scientific article

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