Books
2. Swenson, N.G. 2019. Phylogenetic Ecology: A History, Critique, and Remodeling. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
1. Swenson, N.G. 2014. Functional and Phylogenetic Ecology in R. Springer UseR! Series, Springer, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Field Guides
1. Umana, M.N., R. Cruz-de Hoyos & N.G. Swenson. 2014. Seedlings of El Yunque, El Verde Field Station, El Yunque National Forest, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico. Field Museum Rapid Color Guides.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
In Press
145. Worthy, S.J., D.C. Laughlin, J. Zambrano, M.N. Umana, C. Zhang, L. Lin, M. Cao, and N.G. Swenson. In press. Alternative designs and tropical tree seedling growth performance landscapes. Ecology.
144. Banares-de-Dios, G., M.J. Macia, I. Granzow-de la Cerda, I. Arnelas, G.M. de Carvalho, C.I. Espinosa, N. Salinas, N.G. Swenson, and L. Cayuela. In press. Linking patterns and processes of tree community assembly across spatial scales in tropical montane forests. Ecology.
143. Swenson, N.G., C.M. Hulshof, M. Katabuchi and B.J. Enquist. In press. Long-term shifts in the functional composition and diversity of a tropical dry forest: a 30-year study. Ecological Monographs.
142. Kattge, J., ...N.G. Swenson,... and I. Zo-Bi (517 Authors Total). In press. TRY plant trait database - Enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology.
141. Chen, L., N.G. Swenson, N. Ji, X. Mi, H. Ren, L. Guo, and K. Ma. In press. Differential soil fungus accumulation and density dependence of trees in a subtropical forest. Science.
140. Umana, M.N., G. Arellano, J. Forero, C.J. Nytch, N.G. Swenson, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte and J.K. Zimmerman. In press. Large- and small-seeded species have contrasting functional neighborhoods in a subtropical forest. Ecosphere.
139. Grossiord, C., B. Christofferson, A.M. Alonso-Rodrigues, K. Anderson-Teixeira, H. Asbjornsen, L.M.T. Aparecido, Z.C. Berry, C. Baraloto, D. Bonal, I. Borrego, B. Burban, J.Q. Chambers, D.S. Christianson, M. Detto, B. Faybishenko, C.G. Fontes, C. Fortunel, B.O. Gimenez, K.J. Jardine, L. Kueppers, G.R. Miller, G.W. Moore, R. Negron-Juarez, C. Stahl, N.G. Swenson, V. Trotsiuk, C. Varadharajan, J.M. Warren, B.T. Wolfe, L. Wei, T.E. Wood, C. Xu, and N.G. McDowell. In press. Precipitation mediates sap flux sensitivity to evaporative demand in the Neotropics. Oecologia.
138. Swenson, N.G., S.J. Worthy, D. Eubanks, Y. Iida, L. Monks, K. Petprakob, V.E. Rubio, K. Staiger, and J. Zambrano. In press. A reframing of trait-demographic rate analyses for ecology and evolutionary biology. International Journal of Plant Sciences.
137. Li, J., M. Stukel, P. Bussies, K. Skinner, A.R. Lemmon, E.M. Lemmon, K. Brown and N.G. Swenson. In press. Maple phylogeny and biogeography inferred from phylogenomic data. Journal of Systematics and Evolution.
136. Mao, L, N.G. Swenson, X. Sui, J. Zhang, S. Chen, J. Li, P. Peng, G. Zhou, and X. Zhang. In press. The geographic and climatic distribution of plant height diversity for 19,000 Angiosperms in China. Biodiversity and Conservation.
135. Umana, M.N., and N.G. Swenson. In press. Intraspecific variation in traits and tree growth along an elevational gradient in a subtropical forest. Oecologia.
134. Umana, M.N., and N.G. Swenson. In press. Does trait variation within broadly distributed species mirror patterns across species? A case study in Puerto Rico. Ecology.
2019
133. Worthy, S.J., and N.G. Swenson. 2019. Functional perspectives on tropical tree demography and forest dynamics. Ecological Processes 8:1.
132. Hogan, J.A., S.M. McMahon, V. Buzzard, S.T. Michaletz, B.J. Enquist, J. Thompson, N.G. Swenson and J.K. Zimmerman. 2019. Drought and the interannual variability of stem growth in an seasonal, everwet forest. Biotropica 51:139-154.
131. Wieczynski, D.J., B. Boyle, V. Buzzard, S. Duran, A. Henderson, C.M. Hulshof, A.J. Kerkhoff, M. McCarthy, S. Michaletz, N.G. Swenson, G. Asner, L. Bentley, B.J. Enquist, V. Savage. 2019. Climate shapes and shifts functional biodiversity in forests worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 116:587-592.
130. Umana, M.N., J. Forero-Montana, C.J. Nytch, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, J.K. Zimmerman and N.G. Swenson. 2019. Dry conditions and disturbance promote liana seedling survival and abundance. Ecology 100:e02556.
129. Zambrano, J., W.F. Fagan, S.J. Worthy, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, J.K. Zimmerman, M.N. Umana and N.G. Swenson. 2019. Tree crown overlap improves predictions of the functional neighborhood effects on tree survival and growth. Journal of Ecology 107:887-900.
2018
128. Umana, M.N., E.F. Zipkin, C. Zhang, M. Cao, L. Lin and N.G. Swenson. 2018. Individual-level trait variation and negative density dependence affects growth in tropical tree seedlings. Journal of Ecology 106:2446-2455.
127. Comita, L.S., M. Uriarte, J. Forero-Montana, W.J. Kress, N.G. Swenson, J. Thompson, M.N. Umana, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2018. Changes in phylogenetic community structure of the seedling layer following hurricane disturbance in a human-impacted tropical forest. Forests 9:556.
126. Swenson, N.G., and S.J. Worthy. 2018. Phylogenetic resolution and metrics of biodiversity and signal in conservation. In Scherson, R., and D. Faith (eds.), Pages 93-110, Phylogeny-Based Biodiversity Assessments for Conservation, Springer.
125. Serna-Chavez, H.M., W.D. Kissling, L.E. Veen, N.G. Swenson, and P.M. van Bodegom. 2018. Spatial scale-dependence of factors driving climate regulation services in the Americas. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27:828-838.
124. Johnson, D.J., J. Needham, C. Xu, E.C. Massoud, S.J. Davies, K.J. Anderson-Teizeira, S. Bunyavejchewin, J.Q. Chambers, C.H. Chang-Yang, J.M. Chiang, G.B. Chuyong, R. Ondit, S. Cordell, C. Fletcher, C.P. Giardina, T.W. Giambelluca, N. Gunatilleke, S. Gunatilleke, C.F. Sieh, S. Hubbell, F. Inman-Narahari, A.R. Kassim, M. Katabuchi, D. Kenfack, C.M. Litton, S. Lum, M. Mohamad, N. Musalmah, P.S. Ong, R. Ostertag, L. Sack, N.G. Swenson, M.N. Umana, M. Uriarte, R. Valencia, S. Yap, J.K. Zimmerman, N.G. McDowell, and S.M. McMahon 2018. Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2:1436-1442.
123. Gei, M. D.M.A. Rozendaal, L. Poorter, F. Bongers, J.I. Spent, M.D. Garner, ... N.G. Swenson... and J.S. Powers (68 Authors Total). 2018. Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2:1104-1111.
122. Shao, X., C. Brown, S.J. Worthy, L. Liu, M. Cao, Q. Li, L. Lin and N.G. Swenson.2018. Intra-specific relatedness, spatial clustering and reduced demographic performance in tropical rainforest trees. Ecology Letters 21:1174-1181.
121. Yang, J., M. Cao and N.G. Swenson. 2018. Why functional traits do not predict tree demographic rates. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33:326-336.
120. Hogan, J.A., J.K. Zimmerman, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, N.G. Swenson, R. Condit, S. Hubbell, D.J. Johnson, I.F. Sun, C.H. Chang-Yang, S.H. Su, P. One, L. Rodriguez, C.C. Money, S. Yap, and S.J. Davies 2018. The frequency of cyclonic wind storms shapes tropical forest dynamism and functional trait dispersion. Forests 9:7.
119. Bachelot, B., M. Uriarte, R. Muscarella, J. Forero-Montana, J. Thompson, K. McGuire, J. Zimmerman, N.G. Swenson and J.S. Clark. 2018. Associations among arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and seedlings are predicted to change with successional status. Ecology 99:607-620.
118. Lopez-Angulo, J., N.G. Swenson, L.A. Cavieres and A. Escudero. 2018. Interactions between abiotic gradients determine functional and phylogenetic diversity patterns in Mediterranean-type climate mountains in the Andes. Journal of Vegetation Science 29:245-254.
117. Umana, M.N., C. Zhang, M. Cao, L. Lin and N.G. Swenson. 2018. Quantifying the role of infraspecific trait variation for allocation and organ-level traits in tropical seedling communities. Journal of Vegetation Science 29:276-284.
116. Chen, L., L.S. Comita, S.J. Wright, N.G. Swenson, J.K. Zimmerman, X. Mi, Z. Has W. Ye, S.P. Hubbell, W.J. Kress, M. Uriarte, J. Thompson, C.J. Nytch, X. Wang, J. Lian and K. Ma. 2018. Forest tree neighborhoods are structured more by negative conspecific density dependence than by interactions among closely related species. Ecography 41:1114-1123.
115. Poorter, L., M.T. van der Sande, E.J.M.M. Arets, N. Ascarrunz, B.J. Enquist, B. Finegan, J.C. Licona, M. Martínez-Ramos, L. Mazzei, J.A. Meave, R. Muñoz, C.J. Nytch, A.A. de Oliveira, E.A. Pérez-García, J. Prado-Junior, J. Rodríguez-Velázques. A.R. Rusche, B. Salgado-Negret, I. Schiavini, N.G. Swenson, E.A. Tenorio, J. Thompson, M. Toledo, M. Uriarte, P. van der Hout, J.K. Zimmerman and M. Peña-Claros. 2018. Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of Neotropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26:1423-1434.
114. Weiser, M.D., N.G. Swenson, B.J. Enquist, S.T. Michaletz, R.B. Waide, J. Zhou, and M. Kaspari. 2018. Taxonomic decomposition of the latitudinal gradient in species diversity of North American floras. Journal of Biogeography 45:418-428.
2017
113. Swenson, N.G., Y. Iida, R. Howe, A. Wolf, M.N. Umana, K. Petprakob, B.L. Turner and K. Ma. 2017. Tree co-occurrence and transcriptomic response to drought. Nature Communications 8:1996.
112. Katabuchi, M., S.J. Wright, N.G. Swenson, K.J. Feeley, R. Condit, S.P. Hubbell, and S.J. Davies. 2017. Contrasting outcomes of species- and community-level analyses of the temporal consistency of functional composition. Ecology 98:2273-2280.
111. Zambrano, J., P. Marchand, and N.G. Swenson. 2017. Local neighborhood and regional climatic contexts interact to explain tree performance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:20170523.
110. Serna-Chavez, H.M., N.G. Swenson, M.D. Weiser, E.E. van Loon, W. Bouten, M.D. Davidson, and P.M. van Bodegom. 2017. Strong biotic influences on regional patterns of climate regulation services. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 31:787-803.
109. Umana, M.N., C. Zhang, M. Cao, L. Lin, and N.G. Swenson. 2017. A core-transient framework for trait-based community ecology: an example from a tropical tree seedling community. Ecology Letters 20:619-628.
108. Swenson, N.G., and F.A. Jones. 2017. Community transcriptomics, genomics and the problem of species co-occurrence. Journal of Ecology 105:563-568.
107. Zambrano, J., Y. Iida, R. Howe, L. Lin, M.N. Umana, A. Wolf, S.J. Worthy, and N.G. Swenson. 2017. Neighborhood defense gene similarity effects on tree performance: a community transcriptomic approach. Journal of Ecology 105:616-626.
106. Umana, M.N., X. Mi, M. Cao, B.J. Enquist, Z. Hao, R. Howe, Y. Iida, D. Johnson, L. Lin, X. Liu, K. Ma, I.F. Sun, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, X. Wang, A. Wolf, J. Yang, J.K. Zimmerman, and N.G. Swenson. 2017. The role of functional uniqueness and spatial aggregation in explaining rarity in trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26:777-786.
105. Swenson, N.G., M.D. Weiser, L. Mao, M.B. Araujo, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho, J. Kollman, D. Nogues-Bravo, S. Normand, M.A. Rodriguez, R. Garcia-Valdes, F. Valladares, M.A. Zavala and J.C. Svenning. 2017. Phylogeny and the prediction of tree functional diversity across novel continental settings. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26:553-562.
104. Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, D.L. Erickson, N.G. Swenson, W.J. Kress, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2017. Variation of tropical forest assembly mechanisms across regional environmental gradients. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 23:52-62.
103. Feng, G., L. Mao, B.M. Benito, N.G. Swenson and J.C. Svenning. 2017. Historical anthropogenic footprints in the distribution of threatened plants in China. Biological Conservation 210:3-8.
102. Cantley, J., A. Markey, N.G. Swenson, and S. Keeley. 2017. Biogeography and evolutionary diversification in one of the most widely distributed and species rich genera of the Pacific. AoB Plants 8:plw043.
101. Zhang, C., J. Yang, L. Sha, X. Ci, J. Li, M. Cao, C. Brown, N.G. Swenson, and L. Lin. 2017. Lack of phylogenetic signal within environmental niches of tropical tree species across life stages. Scientific Reports 7:42007.
100. Swenson, N.G., and J. Zambrano. 2017. Why wood density varies across communities. Journal of Vegetation Science 28:4-6.
2016
99. Mi, X., N.G. Swenson, Q. Jia, M. Rao, G. Feng, H. Ren, D.P. Bebber and K. Ma. 2016. Stochastic assembly in a subtropical forest chronosequence: evidence from contrasting changes of species, phylogenetic and functional dissimilarity over succession. Scientific Reports 6:32596.
98. Chiang, J.M., M.J. Spasojevic, H.C. Muller-Landau, I.F. Sun, Y. Lin, S.H. Su, Z.S. Chen, C.T. Chen, N.G. Swenson, and R.W. McEwan. 2016. Functional composition drives ecosystem function through multiple mechanisms in a broadleaved subtropical forest. Oecologia 182:829-840.
97. Iida, Y., I.F. Sun, C.A. Price, C.T. Chen, Z.S. Chen, J.M. Chiang, C.L. Huang, and N.G. Swenson. 2016. Linking leaf veins to growth and mortality rates: an example from a subtropical tree community. Ecology and Evolution 6:6085-6096.
96. Liu, X., N.G. Swenson, D. Lin, X. Mi, M.N. Umana, B. Schmid, and K. Ma. 2016. Linking individual-level traits to tree growth in a subtropical forest. Ecology 97:2396-2405.
95. Monoy, C., K. Tomlinson, Y. Iida, N.G. Swenson and F. Slik. 2016. Temporal changes in tree species and trait composition in a cyclone-prone Pacific Dipterocarp forest. Ecosystems 19:1013-1022.
94. Chazdon, R.L., E.N. Broadbent, D.M.A. Rozendaal, F. Bongers, A.M. Almeyda Zambrano, T.M. Aide, P. Balvanera, J.M. Becknell, V. Boukili, P.H.S. Brancalion, D. Craven, J.S. de Almeida-Cortez, G.A.L. Cabral, B. de Jong, J. Denslow, D. Dent, S.J. DeWalt, J.M. Dupuy, S.M. Durán, M.M. Espírito-Santo, M.C. Fandino, R.G. César, J.S. Hall, J.L. Hernández-Stefanoni, C.C. Jakovac, A.B. Junqueira, D. Kennard, S.G. Letcher, M. Lohbeck, M. Martínez-Ramos, P. Massoca, J.A. Meave, R. Mesquita, F. Mora, R. Muñoz, R. Muscarella, Y.R.F. Nunes, S. Ochoa-Gaona, E. Orihuela-Belmonte, M. Peña-Claros, E.A. Pérez-García, D. Piotto, J.S. Powers, J. Rodríguez-Velazquez, I.E. Romero-Pérez, J. Ruíz, J.G. Saldarriaga, A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, N.B. Schwartz, M.K. Steininger, N.G. Swenson, M. Uriarte, M. van Breugel, H. van der Wal, M.D.M. Veloso, H. Vester, I.C.G. Vieira, T. Vizcarra Bentos, G.B. Williamson, and L. Poorter. 2016. Carbon sequestration potential of Neotropical second-growth forest. Science Advances 2:e1501639.
93. Wu, J., N.G. Swenson, C. Brown, C. Zhang, J. Yang, X. Ci, J. Li, L. Sha, M. Cao, and L. Lin. 2016. How does habitat filtering affect the detection of conspecific and phylogenetic negative density dependence? Ecology 97:1182-1193.
92. Swenson, N.G., M.D. Weiser, L. Mao, S. Normand, M.A. Rodriguez, L. Lin, M. Cao, and J.C. Svenning. 2016. Constancy in functional space across a species richness anomaly. The American Naturalist 187:E83-E92.
91. Wang, X., T. Wiegand, N.J.B. Kraft, N.G. Swenson, S.J. Davies, Z. Hao, R. Howe, Y. Lin, K. Ma, X. Mi, S.H. Su, I.F. Sun, and A. Wolf. 2016. Stochastic dilution effects weaken deterministic effects of niche-based processes in species rich forests. Ecology 97:347-360.
90. Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, T.M. Aide, D.L. Erickson, J. Forero-Montana, W.J. Kress, N.G. Swenson, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2016. Functional convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico. Journal of Vegetation Science 27:283-294.
89. Poorter, L., F. Bongers, T.M. Aide, A.M.A. Zambrano, P. Balvanera, J. Becknell, V. Boukili, P.H.S. Brancalion, E.N. Broadbent, R.L. Chazdon, D. Craven, J.S. de Almeida-Cortez, G.A.L. Cabral, B. de Jong, J. Denslow, D. Dent, S.J. DeWalt, J.M. Dupuy, S.M. Duran, M.M. Espirito-Santo, M.C. Sandino, R.G. Cesar, J.S. Hall, J.L. Hernandez Stefanoni, C.C. Jakovac, A.B. Junqueira, D. Lennard, S. Letcher, J.C. Licona, M. Lohbeck, E. Marin-Spiotta, M. Martinez-Ramos, P. Mossoca, J.A. Meave, R. Mesquita, F. Mora, R. Munoz, R. Muscarella, Y.R.F. Nunes, S. Ochoa-Gaona, A. de Oliveira, E. Orihuela-Belmonte, M. Pena-Claros, E.A. Perez-Garcia, D. Piotto, J.S. Powers, J. Rodriguez-Velazquez, I.E. Romero-Perez, J. Ruiz, J.G. Saldarriaga, A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, N.B. Schwartz, M.K. Steininger, N.G. Swenson, M. Toledo, M. Uriarte, M. van Breugel, H. van der Wal, M.D.M. Veloso, H. Vester, A. Vicentini, I.C.G. Vieira, T.V. Bentos, G.B. Williamson, and D.M.A. Rozendaal. 2016. Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests. Nature 530:211-214.
88. Kunstler, G., D. Falster, D.A. Coomes, F. Hui, R.M. Kooyman, D.C. Laughlin, L. Poorter, M. Vanderwel, G. Vieilledent, S.J. Wright, M. Aiba, C. Baraloto, J. Caspersen, J.H.C. Cornelissen, S. Gourlet-Fleury, M. Hanewinkel, B. Herault, J. Kattge, H. Kurokawa, Y. Onoda, J. Penuelas, H. Poorter, M. Uriarte, S. Richardson, P. Ruiz-Benito, I.F. Sun, G. Stahl, N.G. Swenson, J. Thompson, B. Westerlund, C. Wirth, M.A. Zavala, H. Zeng, J.K. Zimmerman, N.E. Zimmermann, and M. Westoby. 2016. Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition. Nature 529:204-207.
87. Feng, G., L. Mao, B. Sandel, N.G. Swenson, and J.C. Svenning. 2016. High plant endemism in China is partially linked to reduced glacial-interglacial climate change. Journal of Biogeography 43:145-154.
86. Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, D.L. Erickson, N.G. Swenson, J.K. Zimmerman, and W.J. Kress. 2016. Climate and biodiversity effects on standing biomass in Puerto Rican forests. Caribbean Naturalist Special Issue 1:199-217.
85. Umana, M.N., J. Forero-Montana, R. Muscarella, C.J.Nytch, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, J. Zimmerman, and N.G. Swenson. 2016. Inter-specific functional convergence and divergence and intra-specific negative density dependence underlie the seed to seedling transition in tropical trees. The American Naturalist 187:99-109.
2015 - 2011
84. Umana, M.N., C. Zhang, M. Cao, L. Lin and N.G. Swenson. 2015. Commonness, rarity, and intra-specific variation in traits and performance in tropical tree seedlings. Ecology Letters 18:1329-1337.
83. Poorter, L., M.T. van der Sande, J. Thompson, E.J.M.M. Arets, A. Alarcón, J. Álvarez-Sánchez, N. Ascarrunz, P. Balvanera, G. Barajas-Guzmán, A. Boit, F. Bongers, F.A. Carvalho, F. Casanoves, G. Cornejo-Tenorio, F.R.C. Costa, C.V. de Castilho, J.F. Duivenvoorden, L.P. Dutrieux, B.J. Enquist, F. Fernández-Méndez, B. Finegan, L.H.L. Gormley, J.R. Healey, M.R. Hoosbeek, G. Ibarra-Manríquez, A.B. Junqueira, C. Levis, J.C. Licona, L.S. Lisboa, W.E. Magnusson, M. Martínez-Ramos, A. Martínez-Yrizar, L.G. Martorano, L.C. Maskell, L. Mazzei, J.A. Meave, F. Mora, R. Muñoz, C. Nytch, M.P. Pansonato, T.W. Parr, H. Paz, M. Simoes Penello, E.A. Pérez-García, L.Y. Rentería, J. Rodríguez-Velazquez, D.M.A. Rozendaal, A.R. Ruschel, B. Sakschewski, B. Salgado Negret, J. Schietti, F.L. Sinclair, P.F. Souza, F.C. Souza, J. Stropp, H. ter Steege, N.G. Swenson, K. Thonicke, M. Toledo, M. Uriarte, P. van der Hout, P. Walker, N. Zamora, and M. Peña-Claros. 2015. Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24:1314-1328.
82. Pei, N.C., D.L. Erickson, B. Chen, X. Ge, X. Mi, N.G. Swenson, J. Zhang, F.A. Jones, C. Huang, W. Ye, Z. Hao, C. Hsieh, S. Lum, N.A. Bourg, J.D. Parker, J.K. Zimmerman, W.J. McShea, I.C. Lopez, I.F. Sun, S.J. Davies, K. Ma, and W.J. Kress. 2015. Closely-related taxa influence woody species discrimination via DNA barcoding: evidence from global forest dynamics plots. Scientific Reports 5:15127.
81. Letcher, S.G., J.R. Lasky, R.L. Chazdon, N. Norden, S.J. Wright, J.A. Meave, Eduardo A. Pérez-García, R. Muñoz, E. Romero-Pérez, A. Andrade, J.L. Andrade-Torres, P. Balvanera, J.M. Becknell, T.V. Bentos, R. Bhaskar, F. Bongers, V. Boukili, P.H.S. Brancalion, R.G. César, D.A. Clark, D.B. Clark, D. Craven, A. DeFrancesco, J.M. Dupuy, B. Finegan, E. González-Jiménez, J.S. Hall, K.E. Harms, J.L. Hernández-Stefanoni, P. Hietz, D. Kennard, T.J. Killeen, S.G. Laurance, E.E. Lebrija-Trejos, M. Lohbeck, M. Martínez-Ramos, P.E.S. Massoca, R.C.G. Mesquita, F. Mora, R. Muscarella, H. Paz, F. Pineda-García, J.S. Powers, R. Quesada-Monge, R.R. Rodrigues, M.E. Sandor, L. Sanaphre-Villanueva, E. Schüller, N.G. Swenson, A. Tauro, M.Uriarte, M. van Breugel, O. Vargas-Ramírez, R.A.G. Viani, A. Wendt, and G.B. Williamson. 2015. Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: a test case with 14 Neotropical forest sites. Journal of Ecology 103:1276-1290.
80. Lasky, J.R., B. Bachelot, R. Muscarella, N. Schwartz, J. Forero-Montana, C.J. Nytch, N.G. Swenson, J. Thompson, J.K. Zimmerman and M. Uriarte. 2015. Ontogenetic shifts in trait-mediated mechanisms of plant community assembly. Ecology 96:2157-2169.
79. Yang, J., N.G. Swenson, G. Zhang, X. Ci, M. Cao, L. Sha, J. Li, J.W. Slim, and L. Lin. 2015. Local-scale partitioning of functional and phylogenetic beta diversity in a tropical tree assemblage. Scientific Reports 5:12731.
78. Zanne, A.E., D.C. Tank, W.K. Cornwell, J.M. Eastman, S.A. Smith, R.G. FitzJohn, D.J. McGlinn, B.C. O’Meara, A.T. Moles, P.B. Reich, D.L. Royer, D.E. Soltis, P.F. Stevens, M. Westoby, I.J. Wright, L. Aarssen, R.I. Bertin, A. Calaminus, R. Govaerts, F. Hemmings, M.R. Leishman, J. Oleksyn, P.S. Soltis, N.G. Swenson, L. Warman and J.M. Beaulieu. 2015. Replying to Edwards et al. Nature 521:E6-E7.
77. Hulshof, C.M., N.G. Swenson, and M.D. Weiser. 2015. Tree height-diameter allometry across the United States. Ecology and Evolution 5:1193-1204.
76. Wang, X., T. Wiegand, N.G. Swenson, A.T. Wolf, and R.W. Howe. 2015. Mechanisms underlying local functional and phylogenetic beta diversity in two temperate forests. Ecology 96:1062-1073
75. Swenson, N.G., and M.D. Weiser. 2014. On the packing and filling of functional space in eastern North American tree assemblages. Ecography 11:1056-1062.
74. Erickson, D.L., F.A. Jones, N.G. Swenson, N. Pei, N.A. Bourg, W. Chen, S.J. Davies, X.J. Ge, Z. Hao, R.W. Howe, C.L. Huang, A.J. Larson, S.K.Y. Lum, J.A. Lutz, K. Ma, M. Meegaskumbura, X. Mi, J.D. Parker, I.F. Sun, S.J. Wright, A.T. Wolf, W. Ye, D. Xing, J.K. Zimmerman, and W.J. Kress. 2014. Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach. Frontiers in Genetics 5:e358.
73. Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, D.L. Erickson, N.G. Swenson, J.K. Zimmerman, and W.J. Kress. 2014. A well-resolved phylogeny of the trees of Puerto Rico based on DNA barcode sequence data. PLoS One 9:e112843.
72. Moles, A.T., S.E. Perkins, S.W. Laffan, H. Flores-Moreno, M. Awasthy, M.L. Tindall, L. Sack, A. Pitman, J. Kattge, L.W. Aarssen, M. Anand, M. Bahn, B. Blonder, J. Cavender-Bares, J.H.C. Cornelissen, W.K. Cornwell, S. Diaz, J.B. Dickie, G.T. Freschet, J.G. Griffiths, A.G. Gutierrez, F.A. Hemmings, T. Hickler, T.D. Hitchcock, M. Keighery, M. Kleyer, H. Kurokawa, M.R. Leishman, K. Liu, U. Niinemets, V. Onipchenko, Y. Onoda, J. Penuelas, V.D. Pillar, P.B. Reich, S. Shiodera, A. Siefert, E.E. Sosinski Jr., N.A. Soudzilovskaia, E.K. Swaine, N.G. Swenson, P.M. van Bodegom, L. Warman, E. Weiher, I.J. Wright, H. Zhang, M. Zobel and S.P. Bonser. 2014. Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation? Journal of Vegetation Science 5:1167-1180.
71. Swenson, N.G. 2014. Phylogenetics and comparative methods. Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology. Link; DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199830060- 0087
70. Iida, Y., T.S. Kohyama, N.G. Swenson, S.H. Su, C.T. Chen, J.M. Chiang, and I. Sun. 2014. Linking functional traits and demographic rates in a subtropical tree community: the importance of size-dependency. Journal of Ecology 102:641-650.
69. Xing, D., N.G. Swenson, M.D. Weiser, and Z. Hao. 2014. Determinants of species abundance for eastern North American trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23:903-911.
68. Zanne, A.E., D.C. Tank, W.K. Cornwell, J.E. Eastman, S.A. Smith, R.G. FitzJohn, D.J. McGlinn, B.C. O’Meara, A.T. Moles, D.L. Royer, I.J. Wright, L. Aarssen, R.I. Bertin, A. Calaminus, R. Govaerts, F. Hemmings, M.R. Leishman, J. Oleksyn, P.B. Reich, D.E. Soltis, P.S. Soltis, P.F. Stevens, N.G. Swenson, L. Warman, M. Westoby, and J.M. Beaulieu. 2014. Three keys to radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments. Nature 506:89-92.
67. Swenson, N.G., and M.N. Umana. 2014. Phylofloristics: an example from the Lesser Antilles. Journal of Plant Ecology 7:176-187.
66. Gonzalez-Caro, S., M.N. Umana, E. Alvarez, P.R. Stevenson, and N.G. Swenson. 2014. Phylogenetic alpha and beta diversity in tropical tree assemblages along regional scale environmental gradients in Northwest South America. Journal of Plant Ecology 7:145-153.
65. Yang, J., X. Ci, G. Zhang, N.G. Swenson, L. Sha, C.C. Baskin, J. Li, M. Cao, J.W.F. Slik, and L. Lin . 2014. Functional and phylogenetic assembly in a Chinese tropical tree community across size class, spatial scales and habitats. Functional Ecology 28:520-529.
64. Cantley, J.T., N.G. Swenson, A. Markey, and S.C. Keeley. 2014. Biogeographic insights on Pacific Coprosma (Rubiaceae) indicate two colonizations to the Hawaiian Islands. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 174:412-424.
63. Swenson, N.G. 2014. Phylogenetic imputation of plant functional trait databases. Ecography 37:105-110.
62. Read, Q.D., L.C. Moorhead, N.G. Swenson, J.K. Bailey, and N.J. Sanders . 2014. Convergent effects of elevation on functional leaf traits within and among species. Functional Ecology 28:37-45.
61. Dawson, M.N., A.C. Algar, A. Antonelli, L.M. Davalos, E. Davis, R. Early, A. Guisan, R. Jansson, J.P. Lessard, K.A. Marske, J. McGuire, A.L. Stigall, N.G. Swenson, N.E. Zimmerman, and D.G. Gavin. 2013. A horizon scan of biogeography. Frontiers of Biogeography 5:130-157.
60. Qian, H., N.G. Swenson, and J. Zhang. 2013. Phylogenetic beta diversity of angiosperms in North America. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22:1152-1161.
59. Wang, X., N.G. Swenson, T. Wiegand, A. Wolf, R. Howe, Y. Zhao, X. Bai, D. Xing, and Z. Hao. 2013. Phylogenetic and functional diversity area relationships in two temperate forests. Ecography 36:883-893.
58. Lanfear, R., S.Y.W. Ho, T.J. Davies, A.T. Moles, L. Aarssen, N.G. Swenson, L. Warman, A.E. Zanne, and A.P. Allen. 2013. Taller plants have lower rates of molecular evolution: the rate of mitosis hypothesis. Nature Communications 4:1879.
57. Siefert, A., C. Ravenscroft, M.D. Weiser, and N.G. Swenson. 2013. Functional beta diversity patterns reveal deterministic community assembly processes in eastern North American trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22:682-691.
56. Swenson, N.G., X. Mi, W.J. Kress, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2013. Species-time-area and phylogenetic-time-area relationships in tropical tree communities. Ecology and Evolution 3:1173-1183.
55. Yang, J., N.G. Swenson, M. Cao, G.B. Chuyong, C.E.N. Ewango, R. Howe, D. Kenfack, D. Thomas, A. Wolf and L. Lin. 2013. A phylogenetic perspective on the individual species-area relationship in temperate and tropical tree communities. PLoS One 8:e63192.
54. Swenson, N.G. 2013. The assembly of tropical tree communities - the advances and shortcomings of phylogenetic and functional trait analyses. Ecography 36:264-276.
53. Liu, X., N.G. Swenson, J. Zhang, and K. Ma. 2013. The environment and space, not phylogeny, determine trait dispersion in a subtropical forest. Functional Ecology 27:264-272.
52. Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, J. Forero-Montana, L.S. Comita, N.G. Swenson, J. Thompson, C. Nytch, I. Jonckheere, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2013. Life-history trade-offs during the seed-to-seedling transition in a subtropical wet forest community. Journal of Ecology 101:171-182.
51. Zhang, J., N.G. Swenson, S. Chen, X. Liu, Z. Li, J. Huang, X. Mi, and K. Ma. 2013. Phylogenetic beta diversity in tropical forests: implications for the roles of geographical and environmental distance. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 51:71-85.
50. Stegen, J.C., A.L. Freestone, T.O. Crist, M.J. Anderson, J.M. Chase, L.S. Comita, H.V. Cornell, K.F. Davies, S.P. Harrison, A.H. Hurlbert, B.D. Inouye, N.J.B. Kraft, J.A. Myers, N.J. Sanders, N.G. Swenson, and M. Vellend. 2013. Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22:202-212.
49. Price, C.A., J.S. Weitz, V.M. Savage, J.C. Stegen, A. Clarke, D.A. Coomes, P.S. Dodds, R.S. Etienne, A.J. Kerkhoff, K. McCulloh, K.J. Niklas, H. Olff, and N.G. Swenson. 2012. Testing the metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology Letters 15:1465-1474.
48. Swenson, N.G. 2012. The functional ecology and diversity of tropical tree assemblages through space and time: from local to regional and from traits to transcriptomes. ISRN Forestry 2012:743617.
47. Swenson, N.G., D.L. Erickson, X. Mi, N.A. Bourg, J. Forero-Montana, X. Ge, R. Howe, J.K. Lake, X. Liu, K. Ma, N. Pei, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, A. Wolf, S.J. Wright, W. Ye, J. Zhang, J.K. Zimmerman, and W.J. Kress. 2012. Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities. Ecology 93:S112-S125. PDF
46. Norden, N., S.G. Letcher, V. Boukili, N.G. Swenson, and R. Chazdon. 2012. Demographic drivers of successional changes in phylogenetic structure across life-history stages in tropical plant communities. Ecology 93:S70-S82. PDF
45. Swenson, N.G., B.J. Enquist, J. Pither, A.J. Kerkhoff, B. Boyle, M.D. Weiser, J.J. Elser, W.F. Fagan, J. Forero-Montana, N. Fyllas, N.J.B. Kraft, J.K. Lake, A.T. Moles, S. Patino, O.L. Phillips, C.A. Price, P.B. Reich, C.A. Quesada, J.C. Stegen, R. Valencia, I.J. Wright, S.J. Wright, S. Andelman, P.M. Jorgensen, T.E. Lacher Jr., A. Monteagudo, P. Nunez-Vargas, R. Vasquez, and K.M. Nolting. 2012. The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America. Global Ecology and Biogeography 21:798-808. PDF
44. Swenson, N.G. 2012. Phylogenetic analyses of ecological communities using barcode data. In Kress, W.J., and D.L. Erickson (eds.), DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols, Pp. 409-419, Humana Press .
43. Mi, X., N.G. Swenson, R. Valencia, W.J. Kress, D.L. Erickson, A. Perez-Castaneda, H. Ren, S.H. Su, N. Gunatilleke, S. Gunatilleke, Z. Hao, W. Ye, M. Cao, H.S. Suresh, H.S. Dattaraja, R. Sukumar, and K. Ma. 2012. The contribution of rare species to community phylogenetic diversity across a global network of forest plots. The American Naturalist 180:E17-E30. PDF
42. Swenson, N.G., J.C. Stegen, S.J. Davies, D.L. Erickson, J. Forero-Montana, A.H. Hurlbert, W.J. Kress, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, S.J. Wright and J.K. Zimmerman. 2012. Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity. Ecology 93:490-499. PDF
41. Liu, X., N.G. Swenson, S.J. Wright, L. Zhang, K. Song, Y. Du, J. Zhang, X. Mi, and K. Ma. 2012. Covariation in plant functional traits and soil fertility within two species-rich forests. PLoS One 7:e34767. PDF
40. Kraft, N.J.B., N.J. Sanders, J.C. Stegen, M.J. Anderson, T.O. Crist, H.V. Cornell, M. Vellend, J.M. Chase, L.S. Comita, K.F. Davies, A.L. Freestone, S.P. Harrison, B.D. Inouye, J.A. Myers, and N.G. Swenson. 2012. Response to comments on “Disentangling the drivers of B-diversity across latitudinal and elevational gradients”. Science 335:1573. PDF
39. Hulshof, C.M., J.C. Stegen, N.G. Swenson, C.A.F. Enquist, and B.J. Enquist. 2012. Interannual variability of growth and reproduction in Bursera simaruba: the role of allometry and resource variability. Ecology 93:180-190. PDF
38. Kraft, N.J.B., L.S. Comita, J.M. Chase, N.J. Sanders, N.G. Swenson, T.O. Crist, J.C. Stegen, M. Vellend, B. Boyle, M.J. Anderson, H.V. Cornell, K.F. Davies, A.L. Freestone, B.D. Inouye, S.P. Harrison, and J.A. Myers. 2011. Disentangling the drivers of B-diversity across latitudinal and elevational gradients. Science 333:1755-1758. PDF
37. Stegen, J.C., N.G. Swenson, B.J. Enquist, E.P. White, O.L. Phillips, P.M. Jorgensen, M.D. Weiser, A. Monteagudo-Mendoza, and P. Nunez-Vargas. 2011. Variation in above-ground forest biomass across broad climatic gradients. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20:744-754. PDF
36. Kattge, J., ...N.G. Swenson,... and C. Wirth (129 Authors Total). 2011. TRY - a global database of plant traits. Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935. PDF
35. Swenson, N.G. 2011. Phylogenetic beta diversity metrics, trait evolution and inferring the functional beta diversity of communities. PLoS One 6:e21264 PDF
34. Pei, N.C., J.Y. Lian, D.L. Erickson, N.G. Swenson, W.J. Kress, W.H. Ye, and X.J. Ge. 2011. Exploring tree-habitat associations in a Chinese subtropical forest plot using a molecular phylogeny generated from DNA barcode loci. PLoS One 6:e21273 PDF
33. Swenson, N.G. 2011. The role of evolutionary processes in producing biodiversity patterns, and the interrelationships between taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic biodiversity. American Journal of Botany 98:472-480. PDF
32. Swenson, N.G., P. Anglada-Cordero, and J.A. Barone. 2011. Deterministic tropical tree community turnover: evidence from patterns of functional beta diversity along an elevational gradient. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278:877-884. PDF
31. Schwaderer, A.S., K. Yoshiyama, P. de Tezanos-Pinto, N.G. Swenson, C.A. Klausmeier, and E. Litchman. 2011. Eco-evolutionary differences in light utilization traits and distributions of freshwater phytoplankton. Limnology and Oceanography 56:589-598. PDF
30. Anderson, M.J., T.O. Crist, J.M. Chase, M. Vellend, B.D. Inouye, A.L. Freestone, N.J. Sanders, H.V. Cornell, L.S. Comita, K.F. Davies, S.P. Harrison, N.J.B. Kraft, J.C. Stegen, and N.G. Swenson. 2011. Navigating the multiple meanings of beta diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist. Ecology Letters 14:19-28. PDF
2010 - 2004
29. Uriarte, M., N.G. Swenson, R.L. Chazdon, L.S. Comita, W.J. Kress, D.L. Erickson, J. Forero-Montana, J.K. Zimmerman, and J. Thompson. 2010. Trait similarity, shared ancestry, and the structure of neighborhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly. Ecology Letters 13:1503-1514. PDF
28. Swenson, N.G. 2010. Mapping the suturing of a continental biota. Molecular Ecology 19:5324-5327. PDF
27. Kress, W.J., D.L. Erickson, N.G. Swenson, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2010. Advances in the use of DNA barcodes in building a community phylogeny for tropical trees in a Puerto Rican forest dynamics plot. PLoS One 5:e15409. PDF
26. Schreeg, L.A., W.J. Kress, D.L. Erickson, and N.G. Swenson. 2010. Phylogenetic analysis of local-scale tree soil associations in a lowland moist tropical forest. PLoS One 5:e13685 PDF
25. Swenson, N.G., and M.D. Weiser. 2010. Plant geography upon the basis of functional traits: an example from eastern North American trees. Ecology 91:2234-2241. PDF
24. Swenson, N.G. 2010. Suture zones and phylogeographic concordance: are they the same and how should we test for their existence? In: Phylogeography: Concepts, Intraspecific Patterns and Speciation Processes, Nova Publishers, New York.
23. Swenson, N.G., and J. Pither. 2010. Statistical phylogeography, ecological niche models and predicting glacial refugia: an examination of key assumptions. In: Phylogeography: Concepts, Intraspecific Patterns and Speciation Processes, Nova Publishers, New York.
22. Elser, J.J., W.F. Fagan, A.J. Kerkhoff, N.G. Swenson, and B.J. Enquist. 2010. Biological stoichiometry of plant production: metabolism, scaling, and ecological response to global change. New Phytologist 186:593-608. PDF
21. Hulshof, C.M., and N.G. Swenson. 2010. Variation in leaf functional trait values within and across individuals and species: an example from a Costa Rican dry forest. Functional Ecology 24:217-223. PDF
20. Stegen, J.C., and N.G. Swenson. 2009. Functional trait assembly through ecological and evolutionary time. Theoretical Ecology 2:239-250. PDF
19. Kress, W.J., D.L. Erickson, F.A. Jones, N.G. Swenson, R. Perez, O. Sanjur, and E. Bermingham. 2009. Plant DNA barcodes and a community phylogeny of a tropical forest dynamics plot in Panama. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106:18621-18626. PDF
18. Stegen, J.C., N.G. Swenson, R. Valencia, B.J. Enquist, and J. Thompson. 2009. Above-ground biomass is not consistently related to wood density or basal area in tropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18:617-625. PDF
17. Moles, A.T, D.I. Warton, L. Warman, N.G. Swenson, S.W. Laffan, A.E. Zanne, A. Pitman, F.A. Hemmings, and M.R. Leishman. 2009. Global patterns in plant height. Journal of Ecology 97:923-932. PDF
16. Swenson, N.G., and B.J. Enquist. 2009. Opposing assembly mechanisms in a Neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology. Ecology 90:2161-2170. PDF
15. Chave, J., D. Coomes, S. Jansen, S. Lewis, N.G. Swenson, and A.E. Zanne. 2009. Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12:351-366. PDF
14. Swenson, N.G. 2009. Phylogenetic resolution and quantifying the phylogenetic diversity and dispersion of communities. PLoS One 4:e4390. PDF
13. Swenson, N.G. 2009. Herbaceous monocot form and function along a tropical rain forest light gradient: a reversal of dicot strategy. Journal of Tropical Ecology 25:103-106. PDF
12. Swenson, N.G., J.M Fair, and J. Heikoop. 2008. Water stress and hybridization between Quercus gambelii and Q. grisea. Western North American Naturalist 68:498-507.
11. Swenson, N.G., and B.J. Enquist. 2008. The relationship between stem and branch wood specific gravity and the ability of each measure to predict leaf area. American Journal of Botany 95:516-519. PDF
10. Swenson, N.G. 2008. The past and future influence of geographic information systems on hybrid zone, phylogeographic and speciation research. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:421-434. PDF
9. Enquist, B.J., A.J. Kerkhoff, S.C. Stark, N.G. Swenson, M.C. McCarthy, and C.A. Price. 2007. A general integrative model for scaling plant growth and functional trait spectra. Nature 449:218-222. PDF
8. Swenson, N.G., B.J. Enquist, J. Thompson, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2007. The influence of spatial and size scales on phylogenetic relatedness in tropical forest communities. Ecology 88:1770-1780. PDF
7. Swenson, N.G., D.L. Mahler, M. Ferro, and A. Ritchie. 2007. The energetic determination, spatial dispersion and density dependence of Myrmeleon pits in Las Cruces, Costa Rica. Biotropica 38:774-777. PDF
6. Weiser, M.D., B. J. Enquist, B. Boyle, T. J. Killeen, P. M. Jorgensen, G. Fonseca, M. Jennings, A. J. Kerkhoff, T. E. Lacher Jr., A. Monteagudo, M.P. Nunez Vargas, O.L. Phillips, N.G. Swenson, and R. Vasquez Martinez. 2007. Range size distributions and the latitudinal gradient in New World woody plant species richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16:679-688. PDF
5. Swenson, N.G., and B.J. Enquist. 2007. Ecological and evolutionary determinants of a key plant functional trait: wood density and its community-wide variation across latitude and elevation. American Journal of Botany 91:451-459. PDF
4. Swenson, N.G., B.J. Enquist, J. Pither, J. Thompson, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2006. The problem and promise of scale dependency in community phylogenetics. Ecology 87:2418-2424. PDF
3. Swenson, N.G. 2006. GIS-based niche models reveal unifying climatic mechanisms that maintain the location of avian hybrid zones in a North American suture zone. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19:717-725. PDF
2. Swenson, N.G., and D.J. Howard. 2005. Clustering of contact zones, hybrid zones, and phylogeographic breaks in North America. The American Naturalist 166:581-591. PDF
1. Swenson, N.G., and D.J. Howard. 2004. Do suture zones exist? Evolution 58:2391-2397. PDF
Book Reviews
1. Swenson, N.G. 2016. Trait-based plant ecology. Ecology 97:3556-3558.
2. Swenson, N.G. 2019. Phylogenetic Ecology: A History, Critique, and Remodeling. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
1. Swenson, N.G. 2014. Functional and Phylogenetic Ecology in R. Springer UseR! Series, Springer, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Field Guides
1. Umana, M.N., R. Cruz-de Hoyos & N.G. Swenson. 2014. Seedlings of El Yunque, El Verde Field Station, El Yunque National Forest, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico. Field Museum Rapid Color Guides.
- http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/plantguides/guideimages.asp?ID=636
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
In Press
145. Worthy, S.J., D.C. Laughlin, J. Zambrano, M.N. Umana, C. Zhang, L. Lin, M. Cao, and N.G. Swenson. In press. Alternative designs and tropical tree seedling growth performance landscapes. Ecology.
144. Banares-de-Dios, G., M.J. Macia, I. Granzow-de la Cerda, I. Arnelas, G.M. de Carvalho, C.I. Espinosa, N. Salinas, N.G. Swenson, and L. Cayuela. In press. Linking patterns and processes of tree community assembly across spatial scales in tropical montane forests. Ecology.
143. Swenson, N.G., C.M. Hulshof, M. Katabuchi and B.J. Enquist. In press. Long-term shifts in the functional composition and diversity of a tropical dry forest: a 30-year study. Ecological Monographs.
142. Kattge, J., ...N.G. Swenson,... and I. Zo-Bi (517 Authors Total). In press. TRY plant trait database - Enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology.
141. Chen, L., N.G. Swenson, N. Ji, X. Mi, H. Ren, L. Guo, and K. Ma. In press. Differential soil fungus accumulation and density dependence of trees in a subtropical forest. Science.
140. Umana, M.N., G. Arellano, J. Forero, C.J. Nytch, N.G. Swenson, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte and J.K. Zimmerman. In press. Large- and small-seeded species have contrasting functional neighborhoods in a subtropical forest. Ecosphere.
139. Grossiord, C., B. Christofferson, A.M. Alonso-Rodrigues, K. Anderson-Teixeira, H. Asbjornsen, L.M.T. Aparecido, Z.C. Berry, C. Baraloto, D. Bonal, I. Borrego, B. Burban, J.Q. Chambers, D.S. Christianson, M. Detto, B. Faybishenko, C.G. Fontes, C. Fortunel, B.O. Gimenez, K.J. Jardine, L. Kueppers, G.R. Miller, G.W. Moore, R. Negron-Juarez, C. Stahl, N.G. Swenson, V. Trotsiuk, C. Varadharajan, J.M. Warren, B.T. Wolfe, L. Wei, T.E. Wood, C. Xu, and N.G. McDowell. In press. Precipitation mediates sap flux sensitivity to evaporative demand in the Neotropics. Oecologia.
138. Swenson, N.G., S.J. Worthy, D. Eubanks, Y. Iida, L. Monks, K. Petprakob, V.E. Rubio, K. Staiger, and J. Zambrano. In press. A reframing of trait-demographic rate analyses for ecology and evolutionary biology. International Journal of Plant Sciences.
137. Li, J., M. Stukel, P. Bussies, K. Skinner, A.R. Lemmon, E.M. Lemmon, K. Brown and N.G. Swenson. In press. Maple phylogeny and biogeography inferred from phylogenomic data. Journal of Systematics and Evolution.
136. Mao, L, N.G. Swenson, X. Sui, J. Zhang, S. Chen, J. Li, P. Peng, G. Zhou, and X. Zhang. In press. The geographic and climatic distribution of plant height diversity for 19,000 Angiosperms in China. Biodiversity and Conservation.
135. Umana, M.N., and N.G. Swenson. In press. Intraspecific variation in traits and tree growth along an elevational gradient in a subtropical forest. Oecologia.
134. Umana, M.N., and N.G. Swenson. In press. Does trait variation within broadly distributed species mirror patterns across species? A case study in Puerto Rico. Ecology.
2019
133. Worthy, S.J., and N.G. Swenson. 2019. Functional perspectives on tropical tree demography and forest dynamics. Ecological Processes 8:1.
132. Hogan, J.A., S.M. McMahon, V. Buzzard, S.T. Michaletz, B.J. Enquist, J. Thompson, N.G. Swenson and J.K. Zimmerman. 2019. Drought and the interannual variability of stem growth in an seasonal, everwet forest. Biotropica 51:139-154.
131. Wieczynski, D.J., B. Boyle, V. Buzzard, S. Duran, A. Henderson, C.M. Hulshof, A.J. Kerkhoff, M. McCarthy, S. Michaletz, N.G. Swenson, G. Asner, L. Bentley, B.J. Enquist, V. Savage. 2019. Climate shapes and shifts functional biodiversity in forests worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 116:587-592.
130. Umana, M.N., J. Forero-Montana, C.J. Nytch, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, J.K. Zimmerman and N.G. Swenson. 2019. Dry conditions and disturbance promote liana seedling survival and abundance. Ecology 100:e02556.
129. Zambrano, J., W.F. Fagan, S.J. Worthy, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, J.K. Zimmerman, M.N. Umana and N.G. Swenson. 2019. Tree crown overlap improves predictions of the functional neighborhood effects on tree survival and growth. Journal of Ecology 107:887-900.
2018
128. Umana, M.N., E.F. Zipkin, C. Zhang, M. Cao, L. Lin and N.G. Swenson. 2018. Individual-level trait variation and negative density dependence affects growth in tropical tree seedlings. Journal of Ecology 106:2446-2455.
127. Comita, L.S., M. Uriarte, J. Forero-Montana, W.J. Kress, N.G. Swenson, J. Thompson, M.N. Umana, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2018. Changes in phylogenetic community structure of the seedling layer following hurricane disturbance in a human-impacted tropical forest. Forests 9:556.
126. Swenson, N.G., and S.J. Worthy. 2018. Phylogenetic resolution and metrics of biodiversity and signal in conservation. In Scherson, R., and D. Faith (eds.), Pages 93-110, Phylogeny-Based Biodiversity Assessments for Conservation, Springer.
125. Serna-Chavez, H.M., W.D. Kissling, L.E. Veen, N.G. Swenson, and P.M. van Bodegom. 2018. Spatial scale-dependence of factors driving climate regulation services in the Americas. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27:828-838.
124. Johnson, D.J., J. Needham, C. Xu, E.C. Massoud, S.J. Davies, K.J. Anderson-Teizeira, S. Bunyavejchewin, J.Q. Chambers, C.H. Chang-Yang, J.M. Chiang, G.B. Chuyong, R. Ondit, S. Cordell, C. Fletcher, C.P. Giardina, T.W. Giambelluca, N. Gunatilleke, S. Gunatilleke, C.F. Sieh, S. Hubbell, F. Inman-Narahari, A.R. Kassim, M. Katabuchi, D. Kenfack, C.M. Litton, S. Lum, M. Mohamad, N. Musalmah, P.S. Ong, R. Ostertag, L. Sack, N.G. Swenson, M.N. Umana, M. Uriarte, R. Valencia, S. Yap, J.K. Zimmerman, N.G. McDowell, and S.M. McMahon 2018. Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2:1436-1442.
123. Gei, M. D.M.A. Rozendaal, L. Poorter, F. Bongers, J.I. Spent, M.D. Garner, ... N.G. Swenson... and J.S. Powers (68 Authors Total). 2018. Legume abundance along successional and rainfall gradients in Neotropical forests. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2:1104-1111.
122. Shao, X., C. Brown, S.J. Worthy, L. Liu, M. Cao, Q. Li, L. Lin and N.G. Swenson.2018. Intra-specific relatedness, spatial clustering and reduced demographic performance in tropical rainforest trees. Ecology Letters 21:1174-1181.
121. Yang, J., M. Cao and N.G. Swenson. 2018. Why functional traits do not predict tree demographic rates. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33:326-336.
120. Hogan, J.A., J.K. Zimmerman, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, N.G. Swenson, R. Condit, S. Hubbell, D.J. Johnson, I.F. Sun, C.H. Chang-Yang, S.H. Su, P. One, L. Rodriguez, C.C. Money, S. Yap, and S.J. Davies 2018. The frequency of cyclonic wind storms shapes tropical forest dynamism and functional trait dispersion. Forests 9:7.
119. Bachelot, B., M. Uriarte, R. Muscarella, J. Forero-Montana, J. Thompson, K. McGuire, J. Zimmerman, N.G. Swenson and J.S. Clark. 2018. Associations among arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and seedlings are predicted to change with successional status. Ecology 99:607-620.
118. Lopez-Angulo, J., N.G. Swenson, L.A. Cavieres and A. Escudero. 2018. Interactions between abiotic gradients determine functional and phylogenetic diversity patterns in Mediterranean-type climate mountains in the Andes. Journal of Vegetation Science 29:245-254.
117. Umana, M.N., C. Zhang, M. Cao, L. Lin and N.G. Swenson. 2018. Quantifying the role of infraspecific trait variation for allocation and organ-level traits in tropical seedling communities. Journal of Vegetation Science 29:276-284.
116. Chen, L., L.S. Comita, S.J. Wright, N.G. Swenson, J.K. Zimmerman, X. Mi, Z. Has W. Ye, S.P. Hubbell, W.J. Kress, M. Uriarte, J. Thompson, C.J. Nytch, X. Wang, J. Lian and K. Ma. 2018. Forest tree neighborhoods are structured more by negative conspecific density dependence than by interactions among closely related species. Ecography 41:1114-1123.
115. Poorter, L., M.T. van der Sande, E.J.M.M. Arets, N. Ascarrunz, B.J. Enquist, B. Finegan, J.C. Licona, M. Martínez-Ramos, L. Mazzei, J.A. Meave, R. Muñoz, C.J. Nytch, A.A. de Oliveira, E.A. Pérez-García, J. Prado-Junior, J. Rodríguez-Velázques. A.R. Rusche, B. Salgado-Negret, I. Schiavini, N.G. Swenson, E.A. Tenorio, J. Thompson, M. Toledo, M. Uriarte, P. van der Hout, J.K. Zimmerman and M. Peña-Claros. 2018. Biodiversity and climate determine the functioning of Neotropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26:1423-1434.
114. Weiser, M.D., N.G. Swenson, B.J. Enquist, S.T. Michaletz, R.B. Waide, J. Zhou, and M. Kaspari. 2018. Taxonomic decomposition of the latitudinal gradient in species diversity of North American floras. Journal of Biogeography 45:418-428.
2017
113. Swenson, N.G., Y. Iida, R. Howe, A. Wolf, M.N. Umana, K. Petprakob, B.L. Turner and K. Ma. 2017. Tree co-occurrence and transcriptomic response to drought. Nature Communications 8:1996.
112. Katabuchi, M., S.J. Wright, N.G. Swenson, K.J. Feeley, R. Condit, S.P. Hubbell, and S.J. Davies. 2017. Contrasting outcomes of species- and community-level analyses of the temporal consistency of functional composition. Ecology 98:2273-2280.
111. Zambrano, J., P. Marchand, and N.G. Swenson. 2017. Local neighborhood and regional climatic contexts interact to explain tree performance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284:20170523.
110. Serna-Chavez, H.M., N.G. Swenson, M.D. Weiser, E.E. van Loon, W. Bouten, M.D. Davidson, and P.M. van Bodegom. 2017. Strong biotic influences on regional patterns of climate regulation services. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 31:787-803.
109. Umana, M.N., C. Zhang, M. Cao, L. Lin, and N.G. Swenson. 2017. A core-transient framework for trait-based community ecology: an example from a tropical tree seedling community. Ecology Letters 20:619-628.
108. Swenson, N.G., and F.A. Jones. 2017. Community transcriptomics, genomics and the problem of species co-occurrence. Journal of Ecology 105:563-568.
107. Zambrano, J., Y. Iida, R. Howe, L. Lin, M.N. Umana, A. Wolf, S.J. Worthy, and N.G. Swenson. 2017. Neighborhood defense gene similarity effects on tree performance: a community transcriptomic approach. Journal of Ecology 105:616-626.
- Winner of 2017 British Ecological Society John Harper Prize for Best Paper in the Journal of Ecology by an Early Career Ecologist (Zambrano).
106. Umana, M.N., X. Mi, M. Cao, B.J. Enquist, Z. Hao, R. Howe, Y. Iida, D. Johnson, L. Lin, X. Liu, K. Ma, I.F. Sun, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, X. Wang, A. Wolf, J. Yang, J.K. Zimmerman, and N.G. Swenson. 2017. The role of functional uniqueness and spatial aggregation in explaining rarity in trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26:777-786.
105. Swenson, N.G., M.D. Weiser, L. Mao, M.B. Araujo, J.A.F. Diniz-Filho, J. Kollman, D. Nogues-Bravo, S. Normand, M.A. Rodriguez, R. Garcia-Valdes, F. Valladares, M.A. Zavala and J.C. Svenning. 2017. Phylogeny and the prediction of tree functional diversity across novel continental settings. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26:553-562.
104. Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, D.L. Erickson, N.G. Swenson, W.J. Kress, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2017. Variation of tropical forest assembly mechanisms across regional environmental gradients. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 23:52-62.
103. Feng, G., L. Mao, B.M. Benito, N.G. Swenson and J.C. Svenning. 2017. Historical anthropogenic footprints in the distribution of threatened plants in China. Biological Conservation 210:3-8.
102. Cantley, J., A. Markey, N.G. Swenson, and S. Keeley. 2017. Biogeography and evolutionary diversification in one of the most widely distributed and species rich genera of the Pacific. AoB Plants 8:plw043.
101. Zhang, C., J. Yang, L. Sha, X. Ci, J. Li, M. Cao, C. Brown, N.G. Swenson, and L. Lin. 2017. Lack of phylogenetic signal within environmental niches of tropical tree species across life stages. Scientific Reports 7:42007.
100. Swenson, N.G., and J. Zambrano. 2017. Why wood density varies across communities. Journal of Vegetation Science 28:4-6.
2016
99. Mi, X., N.G. Swenson, Q. Jia, M. Rao, G. Feng, H. Ren, D.P. Bebber and K. Ma. 2016. Stochastic assembly in a subtropical forest chronosequence: evidence from contrasting changes of species, phylogenetic and functional dissimilarity over succession. Scientific Reports 6:32596.
98. Chiang, J.M., M.J. Spasojevic, H.C. Muller-Landau, I.F. Sun, Y. Lin, S.H. Su, Z.S. Chen, C.T. Chen, N.G. Swenson, and R.W. McEwan. 2016. Functional composition drives ecosystem function through multiple mechanisms in a broadleaved subtropical forest. Oecologia 182:829-840.
97. Iida, Y., I.F. Sun, C.A. Price, C.T. Chen, Z.S. Chen, J.M. Chiang, C.L. Huang, and N.G. Swenson. 2016. Linking leaf veins to growth and mortality rates: an example from a subtropical tree community. Ecology and Evolution 6:6085-6096.
96. Liu, X., N.G. Swenson, D. Lin, X. Mi, M.N. Umana, B. Schmid, and K. Ma. 2016. Linking individual-level traits to tree growth in a subtropical forest. Ecology 97:2396-2405.
95. Monoy, C., K. Tomlinson, Y. Iida, N.G. Swenson and F. Slik. 2016. Temporal changes in tree species and trait composition in a cyclone-prone Pacific Dipterocarp forest. Ecosystems 19:1013-1022.
94. Chazdon, R.L., E.N. Broadbent, D.M.A. Rozendaal, F. Bongers, A.M. Almeyda Zambrano, T.M. Aide, P. Balvanera, J.M. Becknell, V. Boukili, P.H.S. Brancalion, D. Craven, J.S. de Almeida-Cortez, G.A.L. Cabral, B. de Jong, J. Denslow, D. Dent, S.J. DeWalt, J.M. Dupuy, S.M. Durán, M.M. Espírito-Santo, M.C. Fandino, R.G. César, J.S. Hall, J.L. Hernández-Stefanoni, C.C. Jakovac, A.B. Junqueira, D. Kennard, S.G. Letcher, M. Lohbeck, M. Martínez-Ramos, P. Massoca, J.A. Meave, R. Mesquita, F. Mora, R. Muñoz, R. Muscarella, Y.R.F. Nunes, S. Ochoa-Gaona, E. Orihuela-Belmonte, M. Peña-Claros, E.A. Pérez-García, D. Piotto, J.S. Powers, J. Rodríguez-Velazquez, I.E. Romero-Pérez, J. Ruíz, J.G. Saldarriaga, A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, N.B. Schwartz, M.K. Steininger, N.G. Swenson, M. Uriarte, M. van Breugel, H. van der Wal, M.D.M. Veloso, H. Vester, I.C.G. Vieira, T. Vizcarra Bentos, G.B. Williamson, and L. Poorter. 2016. Carbon sequestration potential of Neotropical second-growth forest. Science Advances 2:e1501639.
93. Wu, J., N.G. Swenson, C. Brown, C. Zhang, J. Yang, X. Ci, J. Li, L. Sha, M. Cao, and L. Lin. 2016. How does habitat filtering affect the detection of conspecific and phylogenetic negative density dependence? Ecology 97:1182-1193.
92. Swenson, N.G., M.D. Weiser, L. Mao, S. Normand, M.A. Rodriguez, L. Lin, M. Cao, and J.C. Svenning. 2016. Constancy in functional space across a species richness anomaly. The American Naturalist 187:E83-E92.
91. Wang, X., T. Wiegand, N.J.B. Kraft, N.G. Swenson, S.J. Davies, Z. Hao, R. Howe, Y. Lin, K. Ma, X. Mi, S.H. Su, I.F. Sun, and A. Wolf. 2016. Stochastic dilution effects weaken deterministic effects of niche-based processes in species rich forests. Ecology 97:347-360.
90. Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, T.M. Aide, D.L. Erickson, J. Forero-Montana, W.J. Kress, N.G. Swenson, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2016. Functional convergence and phylogenetic divergence during secondary succession of subtropical wet forests in Puerto Rico. Journal of Vegetation Science 27:283-294.
89. Poorter, L., F. Bongers, T.M. Aide, A.M.A. Zambrano, P. Balvanera, J. Becknell, V. Boukili, P.H.S. Brancalion, E.N. Broadbent, R.L. Chazdon, D. Craven, J.S. de Almeida-Cortez, G.A.L. Cabral, B. de Jong, J. Denslow, D. Dent, S.J. DeWalt, J.M. Dupuy, S.M. Duran, M.M. Espirito-Santo, M.C. Sandino, R.G. Cesar, J.S. Hall, J.L. Hernandez Stefanoni, C.C. Jakovac, A.B. Junqueira, D. Lennard, S. Letcher, J.C. Licona, M. Lohbeck, E. Marin-Spiotta, M. Martinez-Ramos, P. Mossoca, J.A. Meave, R. Mesquita, F. Mora, R. Munoz, R. Muscarella, Y.R.F. Nunes, S. Ochoa-Gaona, A. de Oliveira, E. Orihuela-Belmonte, M. Pena-Claros, E.A. Perez-Garcia, D. Piotto, J.S. Powers, J. Rodriguez-Velazquez, I.E. Romero-Perez, J. Ruiz, J.G. Saldarriaga, A. Sanchez-Azofeifa, N.B. Schwartz, M.K. Steininger, N.G. Swenson, M. Toledo, M. Uriarte, M. van Breugel, H. van der Wal, M.D.M. Veloso, H. Vester, A. Vicentini, I.C.G. Vieira, T.V. Bentos, G.B. Williamson, and D.M.A. Rozendaal. 2016. Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests. Nature 530:211-214.
88. Kunstler, G., D. Falster, D.A. Coomes, F. Hui, R.M. Kooyman, D.C. Laughlin, L. Poorter, M. Vanderwel, G. Vieilledent, S.J. Wright, M. Aiba, C. Baraloto, J. Caspersen, J.H.C. Cornelissen, S. Gourlet-Fleury, M. Hanewinkel, B. Herault, J. Kattge, H. Kurokawa, Y. Onoda, J. Penuelas, H. Poorter, M. Uriarte, S. Richardson, P. Ruiz-Benito, I.F. Sun, G. Stahl, N.G. Swenson, J. Thompson, B. Westerlund, C. Wirth, M.A. Zavala, H. Zeng, J.K. Zimmerman, N.E. Zimmermann, and M. Westoby. 2016. Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition. Nature 529:204-207.
87. Feng, G., L. Mao, B. Sandel, N.G. Swenson, and J.C. Svenning. 2016. High plant endemism in China is partially linked to reduced glacial-interglacial climate change. Journal of Biogeography 43:145-154.
86. Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, D.L. Erickson, N.G. Swenson, J.K. Zimmerman, and W.J. Kress. 2016. Climate and biodiversity effects on standing biomass in Puerto Rican forests. Caribbean Naturalist Special Issue 1:199-217.
85. Umana, M.N., J. Forero-Montana, R. Muscarella, C.J.Nytch, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, J. Zimmerman, and N.G. Swenson. 2016. Inter-specific functional convergence and divergence and intra-specific negative density dependence underlie the seed to seedling transition in tropical trees. The American Naturalist 187:99-109.
2015 - 2011
84. Umana, M.N., C. Zhang, M. Cao, L. Lin and N.G. Swenson. 2015. Commonness, rarity, and intra-specific variation in traits and performance in tropical tree seedlings. Ecology Letters 18:1329-1337.
83. Poorter, L., M.T. van der Sande, J. Thompson, E.J.M.M. Arets, A. Alarcón, J. Álvarez-Sánchez, N. Ascarrunz, P. Balvanera, G. Barajas-Guzmán, A. Boit, F. Bongers, F.A. Carvalho, F. Casanoves, G. Cornejo-Tenorio, F.R.C. Costa, C.V. de Castilho, J.F. Duivenvoorden, L.P. Dutrieux, B.J. Enquist, F. Fernández-Méndez, B. Finegan, L.H.L. Gormley, J.R. Healey, M.R. Hoosbeek, G. Ibarra-Manríquez, A.B. Junqueira, C. Levis, J.C. Licona, L.S. Lisboa, W.E. Magnusson, M. Martínez-Ramos, A. Martínez-Yrizar, L.G. Martorano, L.C. Maskell, L. Mazzei, J.A. Meave, F. Mora, R. Muñoz, C. Nytch, M.P. Pansonato, T.W. Parr, H. Paz, M. Simoes Penello, E.A. Pérez-García, L.Y. Rentería, J. Rodríguez-Velazquez, D.M.A. Rozendaal, A.R. Ruschel, B. Sakschewski, B. Salgado Negret, J. Schietti, F.L. Sinclair, P.F. Souza, F.C. Souza, J. Stropp, H. ter Steege, N.G. Swenson, K. Thonicke, M. Toledo, M. Uriarte, P. van der Hout, P. Walker, N. Zamora, and M. Peña-Claros. 2015. Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24:1314-1328.
82. Pei, N.C., D.L. Erickson, B. Chen, X. Ge, X. Mi, N.G. Swenson, J. Zhang, F.A. Jones, C. Huang, W. Ye, Z. Hao, C. Hsieh, S. Lum, N.A. Bourg, J.D. Parker, J.K. Zimmerman, W.J. McShea, I.C. Lopez, I.F. Sun, S.J. Davies, K. Ma, and W.J. Kress. 2015. Closely-related taxa influence woody species discrimination via DNA barcoding: evidence from global forest dynamics plots. Scientific Reports 5:15127.
81. Letcher, S.G., J.R. Lasky, R.L. Chazdon, N. Norden, S.J. Wright, J.A. Meave, Eduardo A. Pérez-García, R. Muñoz, E. Romero-Pérez, A. Andrade, J.L. Andrade-Torres, P. Balvanera, J.M. Becknell, T.V. Bentos, R. Bhaskar, F. Bongers, V. Boukili, P.H.S. Brancalion, R.G. César, D.A. Clark, D.B. Clark, D. Craven, A. DeFrancesco, J.M. Dupuy, B. Finegan, E. González-Jiménez, J.S. Hall, K.E. Harms, J.L. Hernández-Stefanoni, P. Hietz, D. Kennard, T.J. Killeen, S.G. Laurance, E.E. Lebrija-Trejos, M. Lohbeck, M. Martínez-Ramos, P.E.S. Massoca, R.C.G. Mesquita, F. Mora, R. Muscarella, H. Paz, F. Pineda-García, J.S. Powers, R. Quesada-Monge, R.R. Rodrigues, M.E. Sandor, L. Sanaphre-Villanueva, E. Schüller, N.G. Swenson, A. Tauro, M.Uriarte, M. van Breugel, O. Vargas-Ramírez, R.A.G. Viani, A. Wendt, and G.B. Williamson. 2015. Environmental gradients and the evolution of successional habitat specialization: a test case with 14 Neotropical forest sites. Journal of Ecology 103:1276-1290.
80. Lasky, J.R., B. Bachelot, R. Muscarella, N. Schwartz, J. Forero-Montana, C.J. Nytch, N.G. Swenson, J. Thompson, J.K. Zimmerman and M. Uriarte. 2015. Ontogenetic shifts in trait-mediated mechanisms of plant community assembly. Ecology 96:2157-2169.
79. Yang, J., N.G. Swenson, G. Zhang, X. Ci, M. Cao, L. Sha, J. Li, J.W. Slim, and L. Lin. 2015. Local-scale partitioning of functional and phylogenetic beta diversity in a tropical tree assemblage. Scientific Reports 5:12731.
78. Zanne, A.E., D.C. Tank, W.K. Cornwell, J.M. Eastman, S.A. Smith, R.G. FitzJohn, D.J. McGlinn, B.C. O’Meara, A.T. Moles, P.B. Reich, D.L. Royer, D.E. Soltis, P.F. Stevens, M. Westoby, I.J. Wright, L. Aarssen, R.I. Bertin, A. Calaminus, R. Govaerts, F. Hemmings, M.R. Leishman, J. Oleksyn, P.S. Soltis, N.G. Swenson, L. Warman and J.M. Beaulieu. 2015. Replying to Edwards et al. Nature 521:E6-E7.
77. Hulshof, C.M., N.G. Swenson, and M.D. Weiser. 2015. Tree height-diameter allometry across the United States. Ecology and Evolution 5:1193-1204.
76. Wang, X., T. Wiegand, N.G. Swenson, A.T. Wolf, and R.W. Howe. 2015. Mechanisms underlying local functional and phylogenetic beta diversity in two temperate forests. Ecology 96:1062-1073
75. Swenson, N.G., and M.D. Weiser. 2014. On the packing and filling of functional space in eastern North American tree assemblages. Ecography 11:1056-1062.
74. Erickson, D.L., F.A. Jones, N.G. Swenson, N. Pei, N.A. Bourg, W. Chen, S.J. Davies, X.J. Ge, Z. Hao, R.W. Howe, C.L. Huang, A.J. Larson, S.K.Y. Lum, J.A. Lutz, K. Ma, M. Meegaskumbura, X. Mi, J.D. Parker, I.F. Sun, S.J. Wright, A.T. Wolf, W. Ye, D. Xing, J.K. Zimmerman, and W.J. Kress. 2014. Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach. Frontiers in Genetics 5:e358.
73. Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, D.L. Erickson, N.G. Swenson, J.K. Zimmerman, and W.J. Kress. 2014. A well-resolved phylogeny of the trees of Puerto Rico based on DNA barcode sequence data. PLoS One 9:e112843.
72. Moles, A.T., S.E. Perkins, S.W. Laffan, H. Flores-Moreno, M. Awasthy, M.L. Tindall, L. Sack, A. Pitman, J. Kattge, L.W. Aarssen, M. Anand, M. Bahn, B. Blonder, J. Cavender-Bares, J.H.C. Cornelissen, W.K. Cornwell, S. Diaz, J.B. Dickie, G.T. Freschet, J.G. Griffiths, A.G. Gutierrez, F.A. Hemmings, T. Hickler, T.D. Hitchcock, M. Keighery, M. Kleyer, H. Kurokawa, M.R. Leishman, K. Liu, U. Niinemets, V. Onipchenko, Y. Onoda, J. Penuelas, V.D. Pillar, P.B. Reich, S. Shiodera, A. Siefert, E.E. Sosinski Jr., N.A. Soudzilovskaia, E.K. Swaine, N.G. Swenson, P.M. van Bodegom, L. Warman, E. Weiher, I.J. Wright, H. Zhang, M. Zobel and S.P. Bonser. 2014. Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation? Journal of Vegetation Science 5:1167-1180.
71. Swenson, N.G. 2014. Phylogenetics and comparative methods. Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology. Link; DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199830060- 0087
70. Iida, Y., T.S. Kohyama, N.G. Swenson, S.H. Su, C.T. Chen, J.M. Chiang, and I. Sun. 2014. Linking functional traits and demographic rates in a subtropical tree community: the importance of size-dependency. Journal of Ecology 102:641-650.
69. Xing, D., N.G. Swenson, M.D. Weiser, and Z. Hao. 2014. Determinants of species abundance for eastern North American trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23:903-911.
68. Zanne, A.E., D.C. Tank, W.K. Cornwell, J.E. Eastman, S.A. Smith, R.G. FitzJohn, D.J. McGlinn, B.C. O’Meara, A.T. Moles, D.L. Royer, I.J. Wright, L. Aarssen, R.I. Bertin, A. Calaminus, R. Govaerts, F. Hemmings, M.R. Leishman, J. Oleksyn, P.B. Reich, D.E. Soltis, P.S. Soltis, P.F. Stevens, N.G. Swenson, L. Warman, M. Westoby, and J.M. Beaulieu. 2014. Three keys to radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments. Nature 506:89-92.
67. Swenson, N.G., and M.N. Umana. 2014. Phylofloristics: an example from the Lesser Antilles. Journal of Plant Ecology 7:176-187.
66. Gonzalez-Caro, S., M.N. Umana, E. Alvarez, P.R. Stevenson, and N.G. Swenson. 2014. Phylogenetic alpha and beta diversity in tropical tree assemblages along regional scale environmental gradients in Northwest South America. Journal of Plant Ecology 7:145-153.
65. Yang, J., X. Ci, G. Zhang, N.G. Swenson, L. Sha, C.C. Baskin, J. Li, M. Cao, J.W.F. Slik, and L. Lin . 2014. Functional and phylogenetic assembly in a Chinese tropical tree community across size class, spatial scales and habitats. Functional Ecology 28:520-529.
64. Cantley, J.T., N.G. Swenson, A. Markey, and S.C. Keeley. 2014. Biogeographic insights on Pacific Coprosma (Rubiaceae) indicate two colonizations to the Hawaiian Islands. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 174:412-424.
63. Swenson, N.G. 2014. Phylogenetic imputation of plant functional trait databases. Ecography 37:105-110.
62. Read, Q.D., L.C. Moorhead, N.G. Swenson, J.K. Bailey, and N.J. Sanders . 2014. Convergent effects of elevation on functional leaf traits within and among species. Functional Ecology 28:37-45.
61. Dawson, M.N., A.C. Algar, A. Antonelli, L.M. Davalos, E. Davis, R. Early, A. Guisan, R. Jansson, J.P. Lessard, K.A. Marske, J. McGuire, A.L. Stigall, N.G. Swenson, N.E. Zimmerman, and D.G. Gavin. 2013. A horizon scan of biogeography. Frontiers of Biogeography 5:130-157.
60. Qian, H., N.G. Swenson, and J. Zhang. 2013. Phylogenetic beta diversity of angiosperms in North America. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22:1152-1161.
59. Wang, X., N.G. Swenson, T. Wiegand, A. Wolf, R. Howe, Y. Zhao, X. Bai, D. Xing, and Z. Hao. 2013. Phylogenetic and functional diversity area relationships in two temperate forests. Ecography 36:883-893.
58. Lanfear, R., S.Y.W. Ho, T.J. Davies, A.T. Moles, L. Aarssen, N.G. Swenson, L. Warman, A.E. Zanne, and A.P. Allen. 2013. Taller plants have lower rates of molecular evolution: the rate of mitosis hypothesis. Nature Communications 4:1879.
57. Siefert, A., C. Ravenscroft, M.D. Weiser, and N.G. Swenson. 2013. Functional beta diversity patterns reveal deterministic community assembly processes in eastern North American trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22:682-691.
56. Swenson, N.G., X. Mi, W.J. Kress, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2013. Species-time-area and phylogenetic-time-area relationships in tropical tree communities. Ecology and Evolution 3:1173-1183.
55. Yang, J., N.G. Swenson, M. Cao, G.B. Chuyong, C.E.N. Ewango, R. Howe, D. Kenfack, D. Thomas, A. Wolf and L. Lin. 2013. A phylogenetic perspective on the individual species-area relationship in temperate and tropical tree communities. PLoS One 8:e63192.
54. Swenson, N.G. 2013. The assembly of tropical tree communities - the advances and shortcomings of phylogenetic and functional trait analyses. Ecography 36:264-276.
53. Liu, X., N.G. Swenson, J. Zhang, and K. Ma. 2013. The environment and space, not phylogeny, determine trait dispersion in a subtropical forest. Functional Ecology 27:264-272.
52. Muscarella, R., M. Uriarte, J. Forero-Montana, L.S. Comita, N.G. Swenson, J. Thompson, C. Nytch, I. Jonckheere, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2013. Life-history trade-offs during the seed-to-seedling transition in a subtropical wet forest community. Journal of Ecology 101:171-182.
51. Zhang, J., N.G. Swenson, S. Chen, X. Liu, Z. Li, J. Huang, X. Mi, and K. Ma. 2013. Phylogenetic beta diversity in tropical forests: implications for the roles of geographical and environmental distance. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 51:71-85.
50. Stegen, J.C., A.L. Freestone, T.O. Crist, M.J. Anderson, J.M. Chase, L.S. Comita, H.V. Cornell, K.F. Davies, S.P. Harrison, A.H. Hurlbert, B.D. Inouye, N.J.B. Kraft, J.A. Myers, N.J. Sanders, N.G. Swenson, and M. Vellend. 2013. Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22:202-212.
49. Price, C.A., J.S. Weitz, V.M. Savage, J.C. Stegen, A. Clarke, D.A. Coomes, P.S. Dodds, R.S. Etienne, A.J. Kerkhoff, K. McCulloh, K.J. Niklas, H. Olff, and N.G. Swenson. 2012. Testing the metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology Letters 15:1465-1474.
48. Swenson, N.G. 2012. The functional ecology and diversity of tropical tree assemblages through space and time: from local to regional and from traits to transcriptomes. ISRN Forestry 2012:743617.
47. Swenson, N.G., D.L. Erickson, X. Mi, N.A. Bourg, J. Forero-Montana, X. Ge, R. Howe, J.K. Lake, X. Liu, K. Ma, N. Pei, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, A. Wolf, S.J. Wright, W. Ye, J. Zhang, J.K. Zimmerman, and W.J. Kress. 2012. Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities. Ecology 93:S112-S125. PDF
46. Norden, N., S.G. Letcher, V. Boukili, N.G. Swenson, and R. Chazdon. 2012. Demographic drivers of successional changes in phylogenetic structure across life-history stages in tropical plant communities. Ecology 93:S70-S82. PDF
45. Swenson, N.G., B.J. Enquist, J. Pither, A.J. Kerkhoff, B. Boyle, M.D. Weiser, J.J. Elser, W.F. Fagan, J. Forero-Montana, N. Fyllas, N.J.B. Kraft, J.K. Lake, A.T. Moles, S. Patino, O.L. Phillips, C.A. Price, P.B. Reich, C.A. Quesada, J.C. Stegen, R. Valencia, I.J. Wright, S.J. Wright, S. Andelman, P.M. Jorgensen, T.E. Lacher Jr., A. Monteagudo, P. Nunez-Vargas, R. Vasquez, and K.M. Nolting. 2012. The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America. Global Ecology and Biogeography 21:798-808. PDF
44. Swenson, N.G. 2012. Phylogenetic analyses of ecological communities using barcode data. In Kress, W.J., and D.L. Erickson (eds.), DNA Barcodes: Methods and Protocols, Pp. 409-419, Humana Press .
43. Mi, X., N.G. Swenson, R. Valencia, W.J. Kress, D.L. Erickson, A. Perez-Castaneda, H. Ren, S.H. Su, N. Gunatilleke, S. Gunatilleke, Z. Hao, W. Ye, M. Cao, H.S. Suresh, H.S. Dattaraja, R. Sukumar, and K. Ma. 2012. The contribution of rare species to community phylogenetic diversity across a global network of forest plots. The American Naturalist 180:E17-E30. PDF
42. Swenson, N.G., J.C. Stegen, S.J. Davies, D.L. Erickson, J. Forero-Montana, A.H. Hurlbert, W.J. Kress, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, S.J. Wright and J.K. Zimmerman. 2012. Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities: functional determinism and phylogenetic stochasticity. Ecology 93:490-499. PDF
41. Liu, X., N.G. Swenson, S.J. Wright, L. Zhang, K. Song, Y. Du, J. Zhang, X. Mi, and K. Ma. 2012. Covariation in plant functional traits and soil fertility within two species-rich forests. PLoS One 7:e34767. PDF
40. Kraft, N.J.B., N.J. Sanders, J.C. Stegen, M.J. Anderson, T.O. Crist, H.V. Cornell, M. Vellend, J.M. Chase, L.S. Comita, K.F. Davies, A.L. Freestone, S.P. Harrison, B.D. Inouye, J.A. Myers, and N.G. Swenson. 2012. Response to comments on “Disentangling the drivers of B-diversity across latitudinal and elevational gradients”. Science 335:1573. PDF
39. Hulshof, C.M., J.C. Stegen, N.G. Swenson, C.A.F. Enquist, and B.J. Enquist. 2012. Interannual variability of growth and reproduction in Bursera simaruba: the role of allometry and resource variability. Ecology 93:180-190. PDF
38. Kraft, N.J.B., L.S. Comita, J.M. Chase, N.J. Sanders, N.G. Swenson, T.O. Crist, J.C. Stegen, M. Vellend, B. Boyle, M.J. Anderson, H.V. Cornell, K.F. Davies, A.L. Freestone, B.D. Inouye, S.P. Harrison, and J.A. Myers. 2011. Disentangling the drivers of B-diversity across latitudinal and elevational gradients. Science 333:1755-1758. PDF
37. Stegen, J.C., N.G. Swenson, B.J. Enquist, E.P. White, O.L. Phillips, P.M. Jorgensen, M.D. Weiser, A. Monteagudo-Mendoza, and P. Nunez-Vargas. 2011. Variation in above-ground forest biomass across broad climatic gradients. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20:744-754. PDF
36. Kattge, J., ...N.G. Swenson,... and C. Wirth (129 Authors Total). 2011. TRY - a global database of plant traits. Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935. PDF
35. Swenson, N.G. 2011. Phylogenetic beta diversity metrics, trait evolution and inferring the functional beta diversity of communities. PLoS One 6:e21264 PDF
34. Pei, N.C., J.Y. Lian, D.L. Erickson, N.G. Swenson, W.J. Kress, W.H. Ye, and X.J. Ge. 2011. Exploring tree-habitat associations in a Chinese subtropical forest plot using a molecular phylogeny generated from DNA barcode loci. PLoS One 6:e21273 PDF
33. Swenson, N.G. 2011. The role of evolutionary processes in producing biodiversity patterns, and the interrelationships between taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic biodiversity. American Journal of Botany 98:472-480. PDF
32. Swenson, N.G., P. Anglada-Cordero, and J.A. Barone. 2011. Deterministic tropical tree community turnover: evidence from patterns of functional beta diversity along an elevational gradient. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278:877-884. PDF
31. Schwaderer, A.S., K. Yoshiyama, P. de Tezanos-Pinto, N.G. Swenson, C.A. Klausmeier, and E. Litchman. 2011. Eco-evolutionary differences in light utilization traits and distributions of freshwater phytoplankton. Limnology and Oceanography 56:589-598. PDF
30. Anderson, M.J., T.O. Crist, J.M. Chase, M. Vellend, B.D. Inouye, A.L. Freestone, N.J. Sanders, H.V. Cornell, L.S. Comita, K.F. Davies, S.P. Harrison, N.J.B. Kraft, J.C. Stegen, and N.G. Swenson. 2011. Navigating the multiple meanings of beta diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist. Ecology Letters 14:19-28. PDF
2010 - 2004
29. Uriarte, M., N.G. Swenson, R.L. Chazdon, L.S. Comita, W.J. Kress, D.L. Erickson, J. Forero-Montana, J.K. Zimmerman, and J. Thompson. 2010. Trait similarity, shared ancestry, and the structure of neighborhood interactions in a subtropical wet forest: implications for community assembly. Ecology Letters 13:1503-1514. PDF
28. Swenson, N.G. 2010. Mapping the suturing of a continental biota. Molecular Ecology 19:5324-5327. PDF
27. Kress, W.J., D.L. Erickson, N.G. Swenson, J. Thompson, M. Uriarte, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2010. Advances in the use of DNA barcodes in building a community phylogeny for tropical trees in a Puerto Rican forest dynamics plot. PLoS One 5:e15409. PDF
26. Schreeg, L.A., W.J. Kress, D.L. Erickson, and N.G. Swenson. 2010. Phylogenetic analysis of local-scale tree soil associations in a lowland moist tropical forest. PLoS One 5:e13685 PDF
25. Swenson, N.G., and M.D. Weiser. 2010. Plant geography upon the basis of functional traits: an example from eastern North American trees. Ecology 91:2234-2241. PDF
24. Swenson, N.G. 2010. Suture zones and phylogeographic concordance: are they the same and how should we test for their existence? In: Phylogeography: Concepts, Intraspecific Patterns and Speciation Processes, Nova Publishers, New York.
23. Swenson, N.G., and J. Pither. 2010. Statistical phylogeography, ecological niche models and predicting glacial refugia: an examination of key assumptions. In: Phylogeography: Concepts, Intraspecific Patterns and Speciation Processes, Nova Publishers, New York.
22. Elser, J.J., W.F. Fagan, A.J. Kerkhoff, N.G. Swenson, and B.J. Enquist. 2010. Biological stoichiometry of plant production: metabolism, scaling, and ecological response to global change. New Phytologist 186:593-608. PDF
21. Hulshof, C.M., and N.G. Swenson. 2010. Variation in leaf functional trait values within and across individuals and species: an example from a Costa Rican dry forest. Functional Ecology 24:217-223. PDF
20. Stegen, J.C., and N.G. Swenson. 2009. Functional trait assembly through ecological and evolutionary time. Theoretical Ecology 2:239-250. PDF
19. Kress, W.J., D.L. Erickson, F.A. Jones, N.G. Swenson, R. Perez, O. Sanjur, and E. Bermingham. 2009. Plant DNA barcodes and a community phylogeny of a tropical forest dynamics plot in Panama. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106:18621-18626. PDF
18. Stegen, J.C., N.G. Swenson, R. Valencia, B.J. Enquist, and J. Thompson. 2009. Above-ground biomass is not consistently related to wood density or basal area in tropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18:617-625. PDF
17. Moles, A.T, D.I. Warton, L. Warman, N.G. Swenson, S.W. Laffan, A.E. Zanne, A. Pitman, F.A. Hemmings, and M.R. Leishman. 2009. Global patterns in plant height. Journal of Ecology 97:923-932. PDF
16. Swenson, N.G., and B.J. Enquist. 2009. Opposing assembly mechanisms in a Neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology. Ecology 90:2161-2170. PDF
15. Chave, J., D. Coomes, S. Jansen, S. Lewis, N.G. Swenson, and A.E. Zanne. 2009. Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12:351-366. PDF
14. Swenson, N.G. 2009. Phylogenetic resolution and quantifying the phylogenetic diversity and dispersion of communities. PLoS One 4:e4390. PDF
13. Swenson, N.G. 2009. Herbaceous monocot form and function along a tropical rain forest light gradient: a reversal of dicot strategy. Journal of Tropical Ecology 25:103-106. PDF
12. Swenson, N.G., J.M Fair, and J. Heikoop. 2008. Water stress and hybridization between Quercus gambelii and Q. grisea. Western North American Naturalist 68:498-507.
11. Swenson, N.G., and B.J. Enquist. 2008. The relationship between stem and branch wood specific gravity and the ability of each measure to predict leaf area. American Journal of Botany 95:516-519. PDF
10. Swenson, N.G. 2008. The past and future influence of geographic information systems on hybrid zone, phylogeographic and speciation research. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:421-434. PDF
9. Enquist, B.J., A.J. Kerkhoff, S.C. Stark, N.G. Swenson, M.C. McCarthy, and C.A. Price. 2007. A general integrative model for scaling plant growth and functional trait spectra. Nature 449:218-222. PDF
8. Swenson, N.G., B.J. Enquist, J. Thompson, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2007. The influence of spatial and size scales on phylogenetic relatedness in tropical forest communities. Ecology 88:1770-1780. PDF
7. Swenson, N.G., D.L. Mahler, M. Ferro, and A. Ritchie. 2007. The energetic determination, spatial dispersion and density dependence of Myrmeleon pits in Las Cruces, Costa Rica. Biotropica 38:774-777. PDF
6. Weiser, M.D., B. J. Enquist, B. Boyle, T. J. Killeen, P. M. Jorgensen, G. Fonseca, M. Jennings, A. J. Kerkhoff, T. E. Lacher Jr., A. Monteagudo, M.P. Nunez Vargas, O.L. Phillips, N.G. Swenson, and R. Vasquez Martinez. 2007. Range size distributions and the latitudinal gradient in New World woody plant species richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16:679-688. PDF
5. Swenson, N.G., and B.J. Enquist. 2007. Ecological and evolutionary determinants of a key plant functional trait: wood density and its community-wide variation across latitude and elevation. American Journal of Botany 91:451-459. PDF
4. Swenson, N.G., B.J. Enquist, J. Pither, J. Thompson, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2006. The problem and promise of scale dependency in community phylogenetics. Ecology 87:2418-2424. PDF
3. Swenson, N.G. 2006. GIS-based niche models reveal unifying climatic mechanisms that maintain the location of avian hybrid zones in a North American suture zone. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19:717-725. PDF
2. Swenson, N.G., and D.J. Howard. 2005. Clustering of contact zones, hybrid zones, and phylogeographic breaks in North America. The American Naturalist 166:581-591. PDF
1. Swenson, N.G., and D.J. Howard. 2004. Do suture zones exist? Evolution 58:2391-2397. PDF
Book Reviews
1. Swenson, N.G. 2016. Trait-based plant ecology. Ecology 97:3556-3558.
- (Review of Garnier et al. 2016. "Plant Functional Diversity: Organism Traits, Community Structure, and Ecosystem Properties", Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK).