Jens‐Christian Svenning

Research interests

Publications

• The number of tree species on Earth

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115329119

• People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023483118

• Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01528-7

• Future of the human climate niche

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910114117

• The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants

  Science Advances · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz0414

• Rewilding complex ecosystems

  Science · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav5570

• Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8

• Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming

  Nature · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0005-6

• Alien plant invasions in European woodlands

  Diversity and Distributions · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12592

• Ecological and evolutionary legacy of megafauna extinctions

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12374

• Topography‐driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12469

• Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502540113

• Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502556112

• Vegetation classification and biogeography of European floodplain forests and alder carrs

  Applied Vegetation Science · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12201

• European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots

  Applied Vegetation Science · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12191

• A review of methods, data, and models to assess changes in the value of ecosystem services from land degradation and restoration

  Ecological Modelling · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.07.017

• Climate‐related range shifts – a global multidimensional synthesis and new research directions

  Ecography · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.00967

• Bundling ecosystem services in Denmark: Trade-offs and synergies in a cultural landscape

  Landscape and Urban Planning · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.02.007

• Topography as a driver of local terrestrial vascular plant diversity patterns

  Nordic Journal of Botany · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-1051.2013.00082.x

• Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

  Nature Climate Change · 2012 · 10.1038/nclimate1514

• The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185x.2012.00235.x

• Specialization in Plant-Hummingbird Networks Is Associated with Species Richness, Contemporary Precipitation and Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity

  PLoS ONE · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025891

• The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism

  Science · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1210173

• Going against the flow: potential mechanisms for unexpected downslope range shifts in a warming climate

  Ecography · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06279.x

• Biotic and abiotic variables show little redundancy in explaining tree species distributions

  Ecography · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06229.x

• Importance of abiotic stress as a range‐limit determinant for European plants: insights from species responses to climatic gradients

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00451.x

Current projects

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