Publications

Teng et al. (2020) - Long-term effects of cultural filtering on megafauna species distributions across China. PNAS
Wang Li et al. (2020) - Accelerating savanna degradation threatens the Maasai Mara socio-ecological system. Global environmental change

Monsarrat et al. (2019) - Anthropocene refugia: concept and applications in conservation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
Sandom et al. (2019) - Trophic rewilding presents regionally specific opportunities for mitigating climate change. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Science.
Van Meerbeek et al. (2019) - Reconciling Conflicting Paradigms of Biodiversity Conservation: Human Intervention and Rewilding. BioScience

Jarvie and Svenning (2018) - Using species distribution modelling to determine opportunities for trophic rewilding under future scenarios of climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
Boulangeat et al. (2018) - The transient response of ecosystems to climate change is amplified by trophic interactions. OIKOS
Schweiger and Svenning (2018) - Down‐sizing of dung beetle assemblages over the last 53 000 years is consistent with a dominant effect of megafauna losses. OIKOS
Schweiger et al. (2018) - The importance of ecological memory for trophic rewilding as an ecosystem restoration approach. Biological Reviews
Faurby et al. (2018) - The Phylogenetic Atlas of Mammal Macroecology. Ecology
Onstein et al. (2018) - To adapt or go extinct? The fate of megafaunal palm fruits under past global change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Davis, M. (2017). What North America's skeleton crew of megafauna tells us about community disassembly. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284(1846),
Ripple, W. J., Abernethy, K., Betts, M. G., et al., 19.10.2016, "Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world’s mammals", Royal Society Open Science, vol. 3, nr. 10.
Faurby, S., Svenning, J., 2016, "Resurrection of the island rule", The American Naturalist, vol. 187, nr. 6, s. 812-820.
Root-Bernstein, M., Svenning, J., 2016, "Prospects for rewilding with camelids", Journal of Arid Environments, vol. 130, s. 54-61.

Bakker, E.S., Gill, J.L., Johnson, C.N., Vera, F.W.M., Sandom, C.J., Asner, G.P. et al. (2016). Combining paleo-data and modern exclosure experiments to assess the impact of megafauna extinctions on woody vegetation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 113, 847-855.
Doughty, C.E., Faurby, S. & Svenning, J.-C. (2016a). The impact of the megafauna extinctions on savanna woody cover in South America. Ecography, 39, 213-222.
Doughty, C.E., Roman, J., Faurby, S., Wolf, A., Haque, A., Bakker, E.S. et al. (2016b). Global nutrient transport in a world of giants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 113, 868-873.
Doughty, C.E., Wolf, A., Morueta-Holme, N., Jørgensen, P.M., Sandel, B., Violle, C. et al. (2016c). Megafauna extinction, tree species range reduction, and carbon storage in Amazonian forests. Ecography, 39, 194-203.
Malhi, Y., Doughty, C.E., Galetti, M., Smith, F.A., Svenning, J.-C. & Terborgh, J.W. (2016). Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 113, 838-846.
Faurby, S., Werdelin, L. & Svenning, J.-C. (2016). The difference between trivial and scientific names: There were never any true cheetahs in North America. Genome Biology, 17, 1-2.
Smith, F.A., Doughty, C.E., Malhi, Y., Svenning, J.-C. & Terborgh, J. (2016). Megafauna in the Earth system. Ecography, 39, 99-108.
Svenning, J.-C., Pedersen, P.B.M., Donlan, C.J., Ejrnæs, R., Faurby, S., Galetti, M. et al. (2016). Reply to Rubenstein and Rubenstein: Time to move on from ideological debates on rewilding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 113, 898-906.
Svenning, J.-C., Pedersen, P.B.M., Donlan, C.J., Ejrnæs, R., Faurby, S., Galetti, M. et al. (2016). Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 113, 898-906.
Faurby, S. & Svenning, J.-C. (2015a). Historic and prehistoric human-driven extinctions have reshaped global mammal diversity patterns. Diversity and Distributions, 21, 1155-1166.
Faurby, S. & Svenning, J.-C. (2015b). A species-level phylogeny of all extant and late Quaternary extinct mammals using a novel heuristic-hierarchical Bayesian approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 84, 14-26.
Naundrup, P.J. & Svenning, J.-C. (2015). A geographic assessment of the global scope for rewilding with wild-living horses (Equus ferus). PLoS ONE, 10, e0132359.
Kissling, W.D., Dalby, L., Fløjgaard, C., Lenoir, J., Sandel, B., Sandom, C. et al. (2014). Establishing macroecological trait datasets: digitalization, extrapolation, and validation of diet preferences in terrestrial mammals worldwide. Ecology and Evolution, 4, 2913-2930.
Sandom, C., Faurby, S., Sandel, B. & Svenning, J.-C. (2014a). Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281, 20133254.
Sandom, C.J., Ejrnæs, R., Hansen, M.D.D. & Svenning, J.-C. (2014b). High herbivore density associated with vegetation diversity in interglacial ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 111, 4162-4167.
Pedersen, R.Ø., Sandel, B. & Svenning, J.-C. (2014). Macroecological evidence for competitive regional-scale interactions between the two major clades of mammal carnivores (Feliformia and Caniformia). PLoS ONE, 9, e100553.
Sandom, C., Dalby, L., Fløjgaard, C., Kissling, W.D., Lenoir, J., Sandel, B. et al. (2013a). Mammal predator and prey species richness are strongly linked at macroscales. Ecology, 94, 1112-1122.
Sandom, C., Donlan, C.J., Svenning, J.-C. & Hansen, D. (2013b). Rewilding. In: Key topics in conservation biology 2 (eds. Macdonald, DW & Willis, KJ). Wiley-Blackwell Chichester, pp. 430-451.
Svenning, J.-C., Fløjgaard, C., Sandom, C. & Ejrnæs, R. (2012). Plads til vild natur i Danmark i 2020? Om behovet for store sammenhængende naturområder. In: Danmarks natur frem mod 2020 - om at stoppe tabet af biologisk mangfoldighed (ed. Meltofte, H). Det Grønne Kontaktudvalg København, pp. 77-80.
Svenning, J.-C., Fløjgaard, C. & Baselga, A. (2011a). Climate, history and neutrality as drivers of mammal beta diversity in Europe: insights from multiscale deconstruction. Journal of Animal Ecology, 80, 393-402.
Svenning, J.-C., Fløjgaard, C., Marske, K.A., Nógues-Bravo, D. & Normand, S. (2011b). Applications of species distribution modeling to paleobiology. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30, 2930-2947.
Sandel, B., Arge, L., Dalsgaard, B., Davies, R.G., Gaston, K.J., Sutherland, W.J. et al. (2011). The influence of Late Quaternary climate-change velocity on species endemism. Science, 334, 660-664.
Fløjgaard, C., Normand, S., Skov, F. & Svenning, J.-C. (2010). Deconstructing the mammal species richness pattern in Europe - towards an understanding of the relative importance of climate, biogeographic history, habitat heterogeneity and humans. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20, 218-230.
Svenning, J.-C. (2007). 'Pleistocene re-wilding' merits serious consideration also outside North America. IBS Newsletter, 5, 3-9.
Svenning, J.-C. (2002). A review of natural vegetation openness in north-western Europe. Biological Conservation, 104, 133-148.