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Nabuurs, GJ, Maximo, YI, Starcevic, A, Patacca, M, Filipek, S, Schulte, M, Lerink, BJ, Bozzolan, N, Suvanto, S, Pugh, TAM, Govaere, L, Thibaut, A, Cavlović, J, Nord-Larsen, T, Kvist-Johannsen, V, Brownell, H, Wurpillot, S, Dassot, M, Redmond, J, McCullagh, A, Corona, P, Kugener, G, Astrup, R, Breidenbach, J, Talarczyk, A, Neroj, B, Seben, V, Alberdi, I, Fridman, J, Thürig, E, Rohner, B, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, König, L, Freudenschuss, A, Gschwanter, T, Berger, A, Korhonen, K, Teeuwen, S, Hassegawa, M, Cienciala, E, Munoz-Aviles, R, Chirici, G, Verkerk, PJ & Schelhaas, MJ 2026, 'Contemporary high resolution European forest structure assessed using tree-level National Forest Inventory data', PLOS One, vol. 21, no. 6, e0346611. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0346611
Handy, G, Kourmouli, A, Arnaud, M, Mayoral, C, Norby, RJ, Reay, MK, Ullah, S, Hartley, IP, Hamilton, RL, Grzesik, R, Smith, AR, Vanguelova, E, MacKenzie, AR & Esquivel‐Muelbert, A 2026, 'Informing the potential of mature temperate forests as natural climate solutions: Changed fine root biomass and morphology under elevated CO2', Plants People Planet. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70222
Mailes, R, B. L. Cintra, B, Bergamin, RS, Graham, LJ, Luna, E, Heard, MS, Matthews, TJ, MacKenzie, AR, Brienen, R & Esquivel-Muelbert, A 2026, 'Risk Factors of Ash Dieback Disease and Consequences for Carbon Storage in Natural Ash Populations', Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 610, 123575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123575
Fadrique, B, Costa, F, Cuesta, F, Arellano, G, Cayuela, L, Baker, TR, Draper, FC, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, ter Steege, H, Bauters, M, Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J, Aguirre-Mendoza, Z, Alexiades, MN, Alvarez-Davila, E, Arets, E, Ayala, E, Aymard, CGA, Baccaro, F, Báez, S, Baraloto, C, Barbosa, RI, Barbosa Camargo, P, Barlow, J, Barni, PE, Barroso, J, Benchimol, M, Bennett, AC, Berenguer, E, Blanc, L, Bonal, D, Bongers, F, Brienen, R, Brown, F, BT Andrade, M, Burban, B, Burnham, RJ, Camargo, JL, Carvalho, SPC, Castilho, C, Chave, J, Coelho de Souza, F, Comiskey, J, da Costa, L, de Lima, RB, de Oliveira, EA, de Oliveira, RLC, de Oliveira Perdiz, R, De Rutte, J, del Aguila-Pasquel, J, Derroire, G, Di Fiore, A, Disney, M, Duque, A, Emilio, T, Farfan-Rios, W, Fauset, S, Fearnside, PM, Feeley, KJ, Feldpausch, TR, Ferreira, J, Ferreira, L, Flores Llampazo, GR, Galbraith, D, García-Cabrera, K, García Criado, M, Gloor, E, Grandez-Rios, JM, Hérault, B, Homeier, J, Honorio Coronado, EN, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I, Huaraca Huasco, W, Huillca-Aedo, YT, Idárraga, Á, Jadán-Maza, O, Kalamandeen, M, Killeen, TJ, Laurance, SGW, Laurance, WF, Levesley, A, Lopez, W, Macía, MJ, Magnusson, WE, Malhi, Y, Manzatto, AG, Marimon, BS, Marimon Junior, BH, Martínez-Villa, JA, Medeiros, MB, Melgaço, K, Melo, L, Metzker, T, Monteagudo, A, Morandi, PS, Myers, JA, Nascimento, HM, Nascimento, R, Neill, D, Nieto-Ariza, B, Palacios, WA, Palacios-Ramos, S, Pallqui-Camacho, NC, Pardo Molina, G, Peacock, J, Peña, MA, Pennington, RT, Peñuela, MC, Peres, CA, Pérez, ÁJ, Pickavance, GC, Pinto, E, Pipoly, J, Pitman, N, Prieto, A, Ramírez-Angulo, H, Reis, SM, Restrepo, Z, Reynel, C, Ribeiro, S, Rivas-Torres, G, Rojas, R, Rudas, A, Salinas, N, Salomão, RP, Santana, F, Schietti, J, Schwartz, G, Serrano, J, Silman, M, Silva, C, Silva, CA, Silva, RC, Silva, RSA, Silva-Espejo, J, Silveira, M, Simon, MF, Soto-Shareva, YC, Souza, PF, Storck-Tonon, D, Stropp, J, Swamy, V, Tello, JS, Terborgh, J, Thomas, R, Torres-Lezama, A, Vale, JD, Valenzuela Gamarra, L, van der Heijden, G, van der Hout, P, van der Meer, PJ, Vasquez Martinez, R, Vedovato, L, Verbeeck, H, Vieira, I, Vieira, SA, Vilanova, E, Vinceti, B, Vos, VA, Zagt, R, Zuidema, PA & Phillips, OL 2026, 'Tree diversity is changing across tropical Andean and Amazonian forests in response to global change', Nature Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 267-280. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02956-5
Resende, BO, Juen, L, Schietti, J, Baccaro, FB, Krempser, E, Moura Jr., J, Colares, L, Carvalho, RL, Phillips, OL, Souza, G, Michelan, TS, Ghidini, AR, Demori, A, Façanha, BLB, Rosa, C, Venticinque, E, Bomfim, F, Raseira, M, Famelli, S, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Kasseboehmer, AC, Fares, AL, Ferreira, AS, Ribas, CC, Castilho, C, Nunes, CA, Andrade, DFCD, Silvério, D, Cunha, EJR, Antunes, E, Rodrigues, E, Silva, E, Alves-Martins, F, Schmidt, FA, Elias, F, Carvalho, FGD, Vaz-de-Mello, FZ, Cruz, G, Palheta, G, Teodoro, G, ter Steege, H, Albert, J, Nascimento, J, Brito, J, Toledo, JJ, Oliveira-Junior, JMB, Monteles, J, Arieira, J, Stropp, J, Dias-Silva, K, Castello, L, Giacomin, LL, Brasil, LS, Calvão, L, Vieira, L, Stegmann, L, Montag, L, Santos, MPD, Silveira, M, Guerrero-Moreno, MA, Nascimento, N, Hamada, N, Marini-Filho, O, Melo, P, Ferreira, P, de Marco Júnior, P, Maciel, R, Pinheiro, R, Ligeiro, R, Lima, R, Martins, R, Koroiva, R, Silva, RR, Ribeiro, S, Bernardi Vieira, T, Tagliacollo, VA, Ferreira, VRS, Beiroz, W, Kuikuro, Y & Machado França, F 2025, 'Collaborative research networks as a strategy to synthesize knowledge of Amazonian biodiversity', Royal Society of London. Proceedings B. Biological Sciences, vol. 292, no. 2059, 20252069. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2069
Eckes‐Shephard, AH, Argles, APK, Brzeziecki, B, Cox, PM, De Kauwe, MG, Esquivel‐Muelbert, A, Fisher, RA, Hurtt, GC, Knauer, J, Koven, CD, Lehtonen, A, Luyssaert, S, Marqués, L, Ma, L, Marie, G, Moore, JR, Needham, JF, Olin, S, Peltoniemi, M, Piltz, K, Sato, H, Sitch, S, Stocker, BD, Weng, E, Zuleta, D & Pugh, TAM 2025, 'Demography, dynamics and data: building confidence for simulating changes in the world's forests', New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70643
Bordin, KM, Bauman, D, Pugh, TAM, Müller, SC, Phillips, OL, Fortunel, C, Needham, JF, Woodall, CW, Astigarraga, J, Schietti, J, Liu, D, Bialic‐Murphy, L & Esquivel‐Muelbert, A 2025, 'Growth–survival trade‐off in temperate trees is weak and restricted to late‐successional stages', Journal of Ecology, vol. 113, no. 11, pp. 3466-3477. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70175
Esquivel-Muelbert, A & Morgan, RB 2025, 'Increasing tree size across Amazonia', Nature Plants, vol. 11, pp. 2016–2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-02097-4
Robinson, N, Drever, CR, Gibbs, DA, Lister, K, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Heinrich, V, Ciais, P, Silva-Junior, CHL, Liu, Z, Pugh, TAM, Saatchi, S, Xu, Y & Cook-Patton, SC 2025, 'Protect young secondary forests for optimum carbon removal', Nature Climate Change, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 793-800. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02355-5
Gora, EM, McGregor, IR, Muller-Landau, HC, Burchfield, JC, Cushman, KC, Rubio, VE, Mori, GB, Sullivan, MJP, Chmielewski, MW & Esquivel-Muelbert, A 2025, 'Storms Are an Important Driver of Change in Tropical Forests', Ecology Letters, vol. 28, no. 7, e70157. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70157
International Tree Mortality Network, Senf, C, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Pugh, TAM & Suvanto, S 2025, 'Towards a global understanding of tree mortality', New Phytologist, vol. 245, no. 6, pp. 2377-2392. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20407
Suvanto, S, Esquivel Muelbert, A, Schelhaas, MJ, Astigarraga, J, Astrup, R, Cienciala, E, Fridman, J, Henttonen, HM, Kunstler, G, Kändler, G, König, LA, Ruiz‐Benito, P, Senf, C, Stadelmann, G, Starcevic, A, Talarczyk, A, Zavala, MA & Pugh, TAM 2025, 'Understanding Europe's Forest Harvesting Regimes', Earth's Future, vol. 13, no. 2, e2024EF005225. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024ef005225
Flores, BM, Montoya, E, Sakschewski, B, Nascimento, N, Staal, A, Betts, RA, Levis, C, Lapola, DM, Esquível-Muelbert, A, Jakovac, C, Nobre, CA, Oliveira, RS, Borma, LS, Nian, D, Boers, N, Hecht, SB, ter Steege, H, Arieira, J, Lucas, IL, Berenguer, E, Marengo, JA, Gatti, LV, Mattos, CRC & Hirota, M 2024, 'Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system', Nature, vol. 626, no. 7999, pp. 555-564. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06970-0
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Fadrique, B, Costa, F, Cuesta, F, Arellano, G, Cayuela, L, Baker, TR, Draper, FC, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, ter Steege, H, Bauters, M, Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J, Aguirre-Mendoza, Z, Alexiades, MN, Alvarez-Davila, E, Arets, E, Ayala, E, Aymard, CGA, Baccaro, F, Báez, S, Baraloto, C, Barbosa, RI, Barbosa Camargo, P, Barlow, J, Barni, PE, Barroso, J, Benchimol, M, Bennett, AC, Berenguer, E, Blanc, L, Bonal, D, Bongers, F, Brienen, R, Brown, F, BT Andrade, M, Burban, B, Burnham, RJ, Camargo, JL, Carvalho, SPC, Castilho, C, Chave, J, Coelho de Souza, F, Comiskey, J, da Costa, L, de Lima, RB, de Oliveira, EA, de Oliveira, RLC, de Oliveira Perdiz, R, De Rutte, J, del Aguila-Pasquel, J, Derroire, G, Di Fiore, A, Disney, M, Duque, A, Emilio, T, Farfan-Rios, W, Fauset, S, Fearnside, PM, Feeley, KJ, Feldpausch, TR, Ferreira, J, Ferreira, L, Flores Llampazo, GR, Galbraith, D, García-Cabrera, K, García Criado, M, Gloor, E, Grandez-Rios, JM, Hérault, B, Homeier, J, Honorio Coronado, EN, Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I, Huaraca Huasco, W, Huillca-Aedo, YT, Idárraga, Á, Jadán-Maza, O, Kalamandeen, M, Killeen, TJ, Laurance, SGW, Laurance, WF, Levesley, A, Lopez, W, Macía, MJ, Magnusson, WE, Malhi, Y, Manzatto, AG, Marimon, BS, Marimon Junior, BH, Martínez-Villa, JA, Medeiros, MB, Melgaço, K, Melo, L, Metzker, T, Monteagudo, A, Morandi, PS, Myers, JA, Nascimento, HM, Nascimento, R, Neill, D, Nieto-Ariza, B, Palacios, WA, Palacios-Ramos, S, Pallqui-Camacho, NC, Pardo Molina, G, Peacock, J, Peña, MA, Pennington, RT, Peñuela, MC, Peres, CA, Pérez, ÁJ, Pickavance, GC, Pinto, E, Pipoly, J, Pitman, N, Prieto, A, Ramírez-Angulo, H, Reis, SM, Restrepo, Z, Reynel, C, Ribeiro, S, Rivas-Torres, G, Rojas, R, Rudas, A, Salinas, N, Salomão, RP, Santana, F, Schietti, J, Schwartz, G, Serrano, J, Silman, M, Silva, C, Silva, CA, Silva, RC, Silva, RSA, Silva-Espejo, J, Silveira, M, Simon, MF, Soto-Shareva, YC, Souza, PF, Storck-Tonon, D, Stropp, J, Swamy, V, Tello, JS, Terborgh, J, Thomas, R, Torres-Lezama, A, Vale, JD, Valenzuela Gamarra, L, van der Heijden, G, van der Hout, P, van der Meer, PJ, Vasquez Martinez, R, Vedovato, L, Verbeeck, H, Vieira, I, Vieira, SA, Vilanova, E, Vinceti, B, Vos, VA, Zagt, R, Zuidema, PA & Phillips, OL 2026, 'Author Correction: Tree diversity is changing across tropical Andean and Amazonian forests in response to global change', Nature Ecology and Evolution, vol. 10, pp. 606-607. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-03019-z
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Luna Diez, E, Barcante Ladvocat Cintra, B, Mailes, R, Sanchez-Lucas, R, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Ben-Tovim, R, Castle, S, Culhane, A-M, Hayward, S, MacKenzie, AR, Parry, G & Neal, L 2025, The Remembering Forest: MEMBRA Policy Report. University of Birmingham. https://doi.org/10.25500/epapers.bham.00004410
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