HISTFUNC is a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant project entitled “Macroecological studies of long-term historical constraints on functional diversity and ecosystem functioning across continents”. 

PUBLICITY related to the HISTFUNC project:

• New HISTFUNC paper in Nature Climate Change by Ordonez et al.
  Link to paper
  Publicity
• HISTFUNC is co-organizing a session at the 2016 Ecological society of America Meeting http://esa.org/ftlauderdale/
• HISTFUNC symposium at the 2015 ESA annual meeting: 
  New Perspectives for Ecology during the Anthropocene: New Paradigms, Technologies and Collaborations
• Humans, not climate, to blame for Ice Age-era disappearance of large mammals, study concludes
  Article in ScienceDaily ... sciencedaily
• Researches predict a greener Greenland
  Press Article in the Guardian ... theguardian.com

NEW PUBLICATIONS from the HISTFUNC project: 

• Ordonez and Svenning 2016
  Functional diversity of North American broad-leaved trees is codetermined by past and current environmental factors
  
  
• Smith et al. 2016
  Megafauna in the Earth system
  
  
• Malhi et al. 2016
  Megafauna and Ecosystem Function: From the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene
  
  
• Zhang et al. 2015
  Regional and historical factors supplement current climate in shaping global forest canopy height
  
  
• Göldel et al. 2015
  Geographical variation and environmental correlates of functional trait distributions in palms (Arecaceae) across the New World
  
  
• Ordonez and Svenning 2015
  Geographic patterns in functional diversity deficits are linked to glacial-interglacial climate stability and accessibility
  
  
• Olivares et al. 2015
  Effects of warming and drought on the vegetation and plant diversity in the Amazon basin
  
  
• Engemann et al. 2015
  Limited sampling hampers ‘big data’ estimation of species richness in a tropical biodiversity hotspot

 Latest news and releases:

• Alejandro Ordonez has recently been named Associate editor at Global ecology and Biogeography and Ecology and Evolution
• Rasmus Ø. Pedersen was awarded the eliteforsk PhD travel stipend 
  Article on Aarhus University Website
• Popular article by Jens-Christian Svenning in Danish online science magazine Videnskab.dk
• "Mennesket udryddede alle de store dyr på Jorden"
  
• New Paper: Sandom et al. 2014
  Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change
• Paper published: Kissling et al. 2014
  Establishing macroecological trait datasets: digitalisation, extrapolation and validation of diet preferences in terrestrial mammals worldwide ... in Ecology and Evolution 
• News site from Discovery news ... and Jens Christian Svenning interviewed for DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) website,  ... dr.dk/viden (in danish) ... about paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on March 3rd, 2014