Publications

2022

• Morueta-Holme N (2022) Revisiting the Chimborazo Volcano – Cradle of plant geography. In: GC Falk, MR Strecker & S Schneider (Eds.), Alexander von Humboldt – Multiperspective Approaches. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94008-9
• Feng X, Enquist BJ, Park DS, Boyle B, Breshears DD, Gallagher RV, Lien A, Newman EA, Burger JR, Maitner BS, Merow C, Li Y, Huynh KM, Ernst K, Baldwin E, Foden W, Hannah L, Jørgensen PM, Kraft NJB, Lovett JC, Marquet PA, McGill BJ, Morueta‐Holme N, Neves DM, Núñez‐Regueiro MM, Oliveira‐Filho AT, Peet RK, Pillet M, Roehrdanz PR, Sandel B, Serra‐Diaz JM, Šímová I, Svenning JC, Violle C, Weitemier TD, Wiser S, López‐Hoffman L (2022). A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1111/GEB.13497
• Pärtel M, Sabatini FM, Morueta-Holme N, Kreft H & Dengler J (2022) Macroecology of vegetation — Lessons learnt from the Virtual Special Issue. Journal of Vegetation Science, 33(2), e13121. https://doi.org/10.1111/JVS.13121
• McLaughlin BC, Skikne, SA, Beller E, Blakey RV, Olliff-Yang RL, Morueta-Holme N, Heller N.E., Brown BJ, Zavaleta ES (2022) Conservation strategies for the climate crisis: An update on three decades of biodiversity management recommendations from science. Biological Conservation 268, 109497. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109497

2021

• Neves DM, Kerkhoff AJ, Echeverría-Londoño S, Merow C, Morueta-Holme N, Peet RK, Sandel B, Svenning JC, Wiser SK, Enquist BJ (2021) The adaptive challenge of extreme conditions shapes evolutionary diversity of plant assemblages at continental scales. PNAS doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2021132118
• Davison C, Rahbek C, Morueta-Holme N (2021) Land use change and biodiversity: challenges for assembling evidence on the greatest threat to nature. Glob Change Biol doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15846
• Jung M, Arnell A, de Lamo X, García-Rangel S, Lewis M, Mark J, Merow C, Miles L, Ondo I, Pironon S, Ravilious C, Rivers M, Schepashenko D, Tallowin O, van Soesbergen A, Govaerts R, Boyle BL, Enquist BJ, Feng X, Gallagher R, Maitner B, Meiri S, Mulligan M, Ofer G, Roll U, Hanson JO, Jetz W, Di Marco M, McGowan J, Rinnan DS, Sachs JD, Lesiv M, Adams V, Andrew SC, Burger JR, Hannah L, Marquet PA, McCarthy JK, Morueta-Holme N, Newman EA, Park DS, Roehrdanz PR, Svenning JC, Violle C, Wieringa JJ, Wynne G, Fritz S, Strassburg BBN, Obersteiner M, Kapos V, Burgess N, Schmidt-Traub G, Visconti P (2021) Areas of global value for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon, and water. Nature Ecology & Evolution doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01528-7
• Santos MJ, Smith AB, Dekker SC, Eppinga MB, Leitão PJ, Moreno-Mateos D, Morueta-Holme N, Ruggieri M (2021) The role of land use and land cover change in climate change vulnerability assessments of biodiversity: a systematic review. Landscape Ecology doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01276-w

2020

• Hannah L, Roehrdanz PR, Marquet PA, Enquist BJ, Midgley G, Foden W, Lovett JC, Corlett RT, Corcoran D, Butchart SHM, Boyle B, Feng X, Maitner B, Fajardo J, McGill BJ, Merow C, Morueta-Holme N, Newman EA, Park DS, Raes N, Svenning JC (2020) 30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%. Ecography 43 (7): 943-953. doi:10.1111/ecog.05166
• Sheth SN, Morueta-Holme N, Angert A (2020) Tansley review: Determinants of geographic range size in plants. New Phytologist 226 (3): 650-665. doi: 10.1111/nph.16406

2019

• Morueta-Holme N, Engemann K, Sandoval-Acuña P, Jonas JD, Segnitz RM, Svenning JC (2019) Resurvey of Antisana supports overall conclusions of Chimborazo study. PNAS 116 (43): 21346-21347. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1911597116
• Enquist BJ, Feng X, Boyle B, Maitner B, Newman EA, Jørgensen PM, Roehrdanz PR, Thiers BM, Burger JR, Corlett RT, Couvreur TLP, Dauby G, Donoghue JC, Foden W, Lovett JC, Marquet PA, Merow C, Midgley G, Morueta-Holme N, Neves DM, Oliveira-Filho AT, Kraft NJB, Park DS, Peet RK, Pillet M, Serra-Diaz JM, Sandel B, Schildhauer M, Šímová I, Violle C, Wieringa JJ, Wiser SK, Hannah L, Svenning JC, McGill BJ (2019) The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants. Science Advances 5(11): eaaz0414. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0414
• Rahbek C, Borregaard MK, Colwell RK, Dalsgaard B, Holt B, Morueta-Holme N, Nogues-Bravo D, Whittaker RJ, Fjeldså J (2019) Humboldt’s enigma: What causes global patterns of mountain biodiversity? Science 365: 1108-1113. doi:10.1126/science.aax0149
• Rapacciuolo G, Rominger AJ, Morueta-Holme N, Blois JL (2019) Ecological non-equilibrium in the Anthropocene. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7: 428 doi: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00428 [editorial]
• McFadden IR, Sandel B, Tsirogiannis C, Morueta‐Holme N, Svenning J-C, Enquist BJ, Kraft NJB (2019) Temperature shapes opposing latitudinal gradients of plant taxonomic and phylogenetic β diversity. Ecology Letters 22: 1126–1135. doi: 10.1111/ele.13269 [cover article]
• Šímová I, Sandel B, Enquist BJ, Michaletz ST, Kattge J, Violle C, McGill BJ, Blonder B, Engemann K,  Peet RK, Wiser SK, Morueta-Holme N, Boyle B, Kraft NJB, Svenning JC (2019) The relationship of woody plant size and leaf nutrient content to large‐scale productivity for forests across the Americas. Journal of Ecology 107(5): 2278–2290. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13163

2018

• Morueta-Holme N, Svenning JC (2018) Geography of plants in the New World – from Humboldt to the age of Big Data. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 103: 315-329. doi: 10.3417/2018110
• Blonder B, Enquist, BJ, Graae B, Kattge J, Maitner B, Morueta-Holme N, Ordonez A, Šímová I,  Singarayer J, Svenning JC, Valdes P, Violle C (2018) Late Quaternary climate legacies on New World plant functional diversity. Global Change Biology 24(10): 4827-4840. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14375
• Brown BJ^†, McLaughlin BC^†, Blakey RV, Morueta-Holme N (2018) Future vulnerability mapping based on response to extreme climate events: dieback thresholds in an endemic California oak. Diversity and Distributions 24(9): 1186-1198. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12770 (^†equal contribution) [editor’s choice]
• Morueta-Holme N, Oldfather MF, Olliff-Yang RL, Weitz AP, Levine CR, Kling MM, Riordan EC, Merow C, Sheth SN, Thornhill AH, Ackerly DD (2018) Best practices for reporting climate data in ecology. Nature Climate Change 8:92-94. doi: 10.1038/s41558-017-0060-2
• Maitner B, Boyle B, Casler N, Condit R, Donoghue JD, Durán S, Guaderrama D, Hinchliff Cody, Jørgensen PJ, Kraft N, McGill B, Merow C, Morueta-Holme N, Peet RK Sandel B, Schildhauer Mark, Smith S, Svenning J-C, Thiers B, Violle C, Wiser S, Enquist BJ (2018) The BIEN R package: A tool to access the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) Database. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9(2): 373–379. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12861
• Šímová I, Violle C, Svenning J-C, Kattge J, Engemann K, Sandel B, Peet RK, Wiser SK, Blonder B, McGill B. Boyle B, Morueta-Holme N, Kraft NJB, van Bodegom PM, Gutiérrez AG, Bahn M, Ozinga WA, Toszögyová A, Enquist BJ (2018) Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and non-woody species. Journal of Biogeography 45(4): 895-916. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13171 [cover article]

2017

• Thornhill AH, Baldwin BG, Freyman WA, Nosratinia S, Kling MM, Morueta-Holme N, Madsen T, Ackerly DD, Mishler BD (2017) Spatial phylogenetics of the native California flora. BMC Biology 15(1): 96. doi: 10.1186/s12915-017-0435-x
• Baldwin BG, Thornhill AH, Freyman WA, Ackerly DD, Kling MM, Morueta-Holme N, Mishler, BD (2017) Species richness and endemism in the native flora of California. American Journal of Botany 104(3) 487-501.  doi: 10.3732/ajb.1600326

2016

• Engemann K, Sandel B, Enquist BJ, Jørgensen P, Kattge J, Morueta-Holme N, Peet RK, Violle C, Boyle B, Spencer N, Violle C, Wiser S, Svenning J-C (2016) A plant growth form dataset for the New World. Ecology 97(11): 3243. doi: 10.1002/ecy.1569
• Goldsmith GR, Morueta-Holme N, Sandel B, Fitz ED, Fitz SD, Boyle B, Casler N, Engemann K, Jørgensen PM, Kraft NJB, McGill B, Peet R, Piel WH, Spencer N, Svenning J-C, Thiers B, Violle C, Wiser S, Enquist BJ. (2016) A dynamic and mobile field guide to all plants of the Americas. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7(8): 960-965. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12548
• Morueta-Holme N, Engemann K, Sandoval-Acuña P, Jonas JD, Segnitz RM, Svenning J-C (2016). Reply to Sklenář: Upward vegetation shifts on Chimborazo are robust. PNAS 113(4): E409-E410. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1523010113
• Morueta-Holme N^†, Blonder B^†, Sandel B, McGill BJ, Peet RK, Ott J, Violle C, Enquist B, Jørgensen PM, Svenning J-C (2016). A network approach for inferring species associations from co-occurrence data. Ecography 39: 001-012. doi: 10.1111/ecog.01892 (^†equal contribution) [forum article]
• Engemann K, Sandel B, Enquist BJ, Jørgensen PM, Kraft NJB, Marcuse-Kubitza A, McGill B, Morueta-Holme N, Peet RK, Violle C, Wiser S, Svenning J-C (2016) Patterns and drivers of plant functional type dominance across the Western Hemisphere – a macroecological re-assessment based on a massive novel botanical dataset. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 180(2): 141-160. doi: 10.1111/boj.12362
• Doughty C, Wolf A, Morueta-Holme N, Jørgensen PM, Sandel B, Violle C, Boyle B, Kraft N, Peet RK, Enquist B, Svenning J-C, Blake S, Galetti M (2016) Megafauna extinction, tree species range reduction, and carbon storage in Amazonian forests. Ecography 39(2): 194-203. doi: 10.1111/ecog.01587

2015

• Morueta-Holme N, Engemann K, Sandoval-Acuña P, Jonas JD, Segnitz RM, Svenning J-C (2015). Reply to Feeley and Rehm: Land-use intensification increases risk of species losses from climate change. PNAS 112(45): E6085. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1518956112
• Morueta-Holme N, Engemann K, Sandoval-Acuña P, Jonas JD, Segnitz RM, Svenning J-C (2015)   Strong upslope shifts in Chimborazo’s vegetation over two centuries since Humboldt. PNAS 112(41): 12741-12745. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1509938112 [cover article]
• Moreno-Amat E, Mateo RG, Nieto-Lugilde D, Morueta-Holme N, Svenning J-C, García-Amorena I, (2015) Impact of model complexity on cross-temporal transferability in Maxent species distribution models: an assessment using palaeobotanical data. Ecological Modelling 312: 308-317. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.05.035
• Blonder B, Nogués-Bravo D, Borregaard MK, Donoghue II JC, Jørgensen PM, Kraft NJB, Lessard JP, Morueta-Holme N, Sandel B, Svenning JC, Violle C, Rahbek C, Enquist BJ (2015) Linking environmental filtering and disequilibrium to biogeography with a community climate framework. Ecology 96(4): 972-985. doi: 10.1890/14-0589.1
• Engemann K, Enquist BJ, Sandel B, Boyle B, Jørgensen PM, Morueta-Holme N, Peet RK, Violle C, Svenning JC (2015) Limited sampling hampers “big data” estimation of species richness in a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Ecology and Evolution 5(3): 807-820. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1405
• Šímová I, Violle C, Kraft NJB, Storch D, Svenning J-C, Boyle B, Donoghue II JC, Jørgensen PM, McGill BJ, Morueta-Holme N, Peet RK, Wiser SK, Piel W, Regetz J, Schildhauer M, Thiers BM, Enquist BJ (2015) Shifts in trait means and variances in North American tree assemblages: species richness patterns are loosely related to the functional space. Ecography 38: 649-658. doi:10.1111/ecog.00867 [editor’s choice]

2014

• Lamanna CA, Blonder B, Violle C, Kraft NJB, Sandel B, Šímová I, Donoghue II JC, Svenning J-C, McGill BJ, Boyle B, Buzzard V, Dolins S, Jørgensen PM, Marcuse-Kubitza A, Morueta-Holme N, Peet RK, Piel WH, Regetz J, Schildhauer M, Spencer N, Thiers BM, Wiser SK, Enquist BJ (2014) Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient. PNAS 111(38) 13745-13750. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1317722111

2013

• Morueta-Holme N, Enquist B, McGill BJ, Boyle B, Jørgensen PM, Ott JE, Peet BK, Šímová I,  Sloat L, Thiers B, Violle C, Wiser S, Dolins S, Donoghue II JC, Kraft NJB, Regetz J, Schildhauer M, Spencer N, Svenning JC (2013) Habitat area and climate variability determine geographic variation in plant species range sizes across the New World. Ecology Letters 16(12) 1446-1454. doi:10.1111/ele.12184 [cover article]

2012

• Farji-Brener AG, Morueta-Holme N, Chinchilla F, Willink B, Ocampo N, Bruner G (2012) Leaf-cutting ants as road engineers: the width of trails at branching points in Atta cephalotes. Insectes Socieux 59:  p. 389-394. doi:10.1007/s00040-012-0231-0

2010

• Morueta-Holme N, Fløjgaard C, Svenning J-C (2010) Climate change risks and conservation implications for a threatened small-range mammal species. PLoS ONE 5(4): e10360: p. 1-12. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010360

2009

• Svenning J-C, Fløjgaard C, Morueta-Holme N, Lenoir J, Normand S, Skov F (2009) Big moving day for biodiversity? A macroecological assessment of the scope for assisted colonization as a conservation strategy under global warming. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 8: 012017: p. 1-12. doi:10.1088/1755-1315/8/1/012017
• Fløjgaard C, Morueta-Holme N, Skov F, Madsen AB, Svenning J-C (2009) Potential 21st century changes to the mammal fauna of Denmark – implications of climate change, land-use, and invasive species. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 8: 012016: p. 1-17. doi:10.1088/1755-1315/8/1/012016