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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
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
Bergamin, RS, Bastazini, VAG, Esquivel‐Muelbert, A, Bordin, KM, Klipel, J, Debastiani, VJ, Vibrans, AC, Loyola, R & Müller, SC 2024, 'Elevational shifts in tree community composition in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest related to climate change', Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 35, no. 4, e13289. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13289
Prestes, NCCS, Marimon, BS, Morandi, PS, Reis, SMDA, Junior, BHM, Cruz, WJA, Oliveira, EA, Mariano, LH, Elias, F, Santos, DM, Esquivel-Muelbert, A & Phillips, OL 2024, 'Impact of the extreme 2015-16 El Niño climate event on forest and savanna tree species of the Amazonia-Cerrado transition', Flora. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2024.152597
Liu, D, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Acil, N, Astigarraga, J, Cienciala, E, Fridman, J, Kunstler, G, Matthews, TJ, Ruiz-Benito, P, Sadler, JP, Schelhaas, M-J, Suvanto, S, Talarczyk, A, Woodall, CW, Zavala, MA, Zhang, C & Pugh, T 2024, 'Mapping multi-dimensional variability in water stress strategies across temperate forests', Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 8909. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53160-1
Astigarraga, J, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Ruiz-Benito, P, Rodríguez-Sánchez, F, Zavala, MA, Vilà-Cabrera, A, Schelhaas, MJ, Kunstler, G, Woodall, CW, Cienciala, E, Dahlgren, J, Govaere, L, König, LA, Lehtonen, A, Talarczyk, A, Liu, D & Pugh, TAM 2024, 'Relative decline in density of Northern Hemisphere tree species in warm and arid regions of their climate niches', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 121, no. 28, e2314899121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2314899121
Biliac-Murphy et al 2024, 'The pace of life for forest trees', Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 386, no. 6717, pp. 92-98. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk9616
Handy, G, Carter, I, MacKenzie, AR, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Smith, AG, Yaffar, D, Childs, J & Arnaud, M 2024, 'Variation in forest root image annotation by experts, novices, and AI', Plant Methods, vol. 20, 154. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-024-01279-z
Tavares, JV, Oliveira, RS, Mencuccini, M, Signori-Müller, C, Pereira, L, Diniz, FC, Gilpin, M, Marca Zevallos, MJ, Salas Yupayccana, CA, Acosta, M, Pérez Mullisaca, FM, Barros, FDV, Bittencourt, P, Jancoski, H, Scalon, MC, Marimon, BS, Oliveras Menor, I, Marimon, BH, Fancourt, M, Chambers-Ostler, A, Esquivel-Muelbert, A, Rowland, L, Meir, P, Lola da Costa, AC, Nina, A, Sanchez, JMB, Tintaya, JS, Chino, RSC, Baca, J, Fernandes, L, Cumapa, ERM, Santos, JAR, Teixeira, R, Tello, L, Ugarteche, MTM, Cuellar, GA, Martinez, F, Araujo-Murakami, A, Almeida, E, da Cruz, WJA, del Aguila Pasquel, J, Aragāo, L, Baker, TR, de Camargo, PB, Brienen, R, Castro, W, Ribeiro, SC, Coelho de Souza, F, Cosio, EG, Davila Cardozo, N, da Costa Silva, R, Disney, M, Espejo, JS, Feldpausch, TR, Ferreira, L, Giacomin, L, Higuchi, N, Hirota, M, Honorio, E, Huaraca Huasco, W, Lewis, S, Flores Llampazo, G, Malhi, Y, Monteagudo Mendoza, A, Morandi, P, Chama Moscoso, V, Muscarella, R, Penha, D, Rocha, MC, Rodrigues, G, Ruschel, AR, Salinas, N, Schlickmann, M, Silveira, M, Talbot, J, Vásquez, R, Vedovato, L, Vieira, SA, Phillips, OL, Gloor, E & Galbraith, DR 2023, 'Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests', Nature, vol. 617, no. 7959, pp. 111-117. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05971-3
Costa, FRC, Lang, C, Sousa, TR, Emilio, T, Esquivel-Muelbert, A & Schietti, J 2023, 'Fine-grained water availability drives divergent trait selection in Amazonian trees', Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, vol. 6, 1112560. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1112560
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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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