Journal Articles

2024

Sarneel, J. M., Hefting, M. M., Sandén, T., van den Hoogen, J., Routh, D., Adhikari, B. S., Alatalo, J. M., Aleksanyan, A., Althuizen, I. H. J., Alsafran, M. H. S. A., Atkins, J. W., Augusto, L., Aurela, M., Azarov, A. V., Barrio, I. C., Beier, C., Bejarano, M. D., Benham, S. E., Berg, B., … Keuskamp, J. A. (2024). Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization. Ecology Letters, 27(5), e14415. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14415

Cole, R. J., Werden, L. K., Arroyo, F. C., Quirós, K. M., Cedeño, G. Q., & Crowther, T. W. (2024). Forest restoration in practice across Latin America. Biological Conservation, 294, 110608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110608

Bello, C., Crowther, T. W., Ramos, D. L., Morán-López, T., Pizo, M. A., & Dent, D. H. (2024). Frugivores enhance potential carbon recovery in fragmented landscapes. Nature Climate Change, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-01989-1

Plowright, R. K., Ahmed, A. N., Coulson, T., Crowther, T. W., Ejotre, I., Faust, C. L., Frick, W. F., Hudson, P. J., Kingston, T., Nameer, P. O., O’Mara, M. T., Peel, A. J., Possingham, H., Razgour, O., Reeder, D. M., Ruiz-Aravena, M., Simmons, N. B., Srinivas, P. N., Tabor, G. M., … Keeley, A. T. H. (2024). Ecological countermeasures to prevent pathogen spillover and subsequent pandemics. Nature Communications, 15(1), 2577. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46151-9

Hasler, N., Williams, C. A., Denney, V. C., Ellis, P. W., Shrestha, S., Terasaki Hart, D. E., Wolff, N. H., Yeo, S., Crowther, T. W., Werden, L. K., & Cook-Patton, S. C. (2024). Accounting for albedo change to identify climate-positive tree cover restoration. Nature Communications, 15(1), 2275. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46577-1

Anthony, M. A., Tedersoo, L., De Vos, B., Croisé, L., Meesenburg, H., Wagner, M., Andreae, H., Jacob, F., Lech, P., Kowalska, A., Greve, M., Popova, G., Frey, B., Gessler, A., Schaub, M., Ferretti, M., Waldner, P., Calatayud, V., Canullo, R., … Averill, C. (2024). Fungal community composition predicts forest carbon storage at a continental scale. Nature Communications, 15(1), 2385. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46792-w

Schweizer, D., Cole, R. J., Werden, L. K., Cedeño, G. Q., Rodriguez, D., Navarro, K., Esquivel, J. M., Max, S., Chiriboga, F. E., Zahawi, R. A., Holl, K. D., & Crowther, T. W. (n.d.). Review and assessment of smartphone apps for forest restoration monitoring. Restoration Ecology, n/a(n/a), e14136. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14136

Paz, A., Lauber, T., Crowther, T. W., & van den Hoogen, J. (n.d.). Improving access and use of climate projections for ecological research through the use of a new Python tool. Ecography, n/a(n/a), e07186. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07186

Delavaux, C. S., Crowther, T. W., Bever, J. D., Weigelt, P., & Gora, E. M. (2024). Mutualisms weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands. Nature, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07110-y

Specker, F., Paz, A., Crowther, T. W., & Maynard, D. S. (2024). Treemendous: An R package for integrating taxonomic information across backbones. PeerJ, 12, e16896. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16896

Smith, G. R., Bello, C., Bialic-​Murphy, L., Clark, E., Delavaux, C. S., Lauriere, C. F. de, Hoogen, J. van den, Lauber, T., Ma, H., Maynard, D. S., Mirman, M., Mo, L., Rebindaine, D., Reek, J. E., Werden, L. K., Wu, Z., Yang, G., Zhao, Q., Zohner, C. M., & Crowther, T. W. (2024). Ten simple rules for using large language models in science, version 1.0. PLOS Computational Biology, 20(1), e1011767. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011767call_made

Wu, Z., Fu, Y. H., Crowther, T. W., Wang, S., Gong, Y., Zhang, J., Zhao, Y.-P., Janssens, I., Penuelas, J., & Zohner, C. M. (n.d.). Poleward shifts in the maximum of spring phenological responsiveness of Ginkgo biloba to temperature in China. New Phytologist, n/a(n/a). external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19229call_made

Wuepper, D., Crowther, T., Lauber, T., Routh, D., Le Clec’h, S., Garrett, R. D., & Börner, J. (2024). Public policies and global forest conservation: Empirical evidence from national borders. Global Environmental Change, 84, 102770. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102770call_made


Zhao, Q., Wang, P., Smith, G. R., Hu, L., Liu, X., Tao, T., Ma, M., Averill, C., Freschet, G. T., Crowther, T. W., & Hu, S. (n.d.). Nitrogen redistribution and seasonal trait fluctuation facilitate plant N conservation and ecosystem N retention. Journal of Ecology, n/a(n/a). external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/1365-​2745.14246call_made

2023
 

Delavaux, C. S., Crowther, T. W., Zohner, C. M., Robmann, N. M., Lauber, T., van den Hoogen, J., Kuebbing, S., Liang, J., de-​Miguel, S., Nabuurs, G.-J., Reich, P. B., Abegg, M., Adou Yao, Y. C., Alberti, G., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Alvarado, B. V., Alvarez-​Dávila, E., Alvarez-​Loayza, P., Alves, L. F., … Maynard, D. S. (2023). Native diversity buffers against severity of non-​native tree invasions. Nature, 1–9. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-​023-06440-7call_made

Delavaux, C. S., LaManna, J. A., Myers, J. A., Phillips, R. P., Aguilar, S., Allen, D., Alonso, A., Anderson-​Teixeira, K. J., Baker, M. E., Baltzer, J. L., Bissiengou, P., Bonfim, M., Bourg, N. A., Brockelman, W. Y., Burslem, D. F. R. P., Chang, L.-W., Chen, Y., Chiang, J.-M., Chu, C., … Averill, C. (2023). Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity. Communications Biology, 6(1), Article 1. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-​023-05410-zcall_made

Formenti, L., Ahlstrand, N. I., Hassemer, G., Glauser, G., Hoogen, J. van den, Rønsted, N., Heijden, M. van der, Crowther, T. W., & Rasmann, S. (2023). Macroevolutionary decline in mycorrhizal colonization and chemical defense responsiveness to mycorrhization. IScience, 26(5). external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.106632call_made

Hordijk, I., Maynard, D. S., Hart, S. P., Lidong, M., ter Steege, H., Liang, J., de-​Miguel, S., Nabuurs, G.-J., Reich, P. B., Abegg, M., Adou Yao, C. Y., Alberti, G., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Alvarado, B. V., Esteban, A.-D., Alvarez-​Loayza, P., Alves, L. F., Ammer, C., Antón-​Fernández, C., … Crowther, T. W. (n.d.). Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness. Journal of Ecology, n/a(n/a). external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/1365-​2745.14098call_made

Jiang, M., Delgado-​Baquerizo, M., Yuan, M. M., Ding, J., Yergeau, E., Zhou, J., Crowther, T. W., & Liang, Y. (n.d.). Home-​based microbial solution to boost crop growth in low-​fertility soil. New Phytologist, n/a(n/a). external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18943call_made

Luan, L., Jiang, Y., Dini-​Andreote, F., Crowther, T. W., Li, P., Bahram, M., Zheng, J., Xu, Q., Zhang, X.-X., & Sun, B. (2023). Integrating pH into the metabolic theory of ecology to predict bacterial diversity in soil. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(3), e2207832120. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2207832120call_made

Ma, H., Crowther, T. W., Mo, L., Maynard, D. S., Renner, S. S., van den Hoogen, J., Zou, Y., Liang, J., de-​Miguel, S., Nabuurs, G.-J., Reich, P. B., Niinemets, Ü., Abegg, M., Adou Yao, Y. C., Alberti, G., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Alvarado, B. V., Alvarez-​Dávila, E., Alvarez-​Loayza, P., … Zohner, C. M. (2023). The global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit. Nature Plants, 1–15. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-​023-01543-5call_made

Mo, L., Zohner, C. M., Reich, P. B., Liang, J., de Miguel, S., Nabuurs, G.-J., Renner, S. S., van den Hoogen, J., Araza, A., Herold, M., Mirzagholi, L., Ma, H., Averill, C., Phillips, O. L., Gamarra, J. G. P., Hordijk, I., Routh, D., Abegg, M., Adou Yao, Y. C., … Crowther, T. W. (2023). Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential. Nature, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-​023-06723-z
Marqués, L., Hufkens, K., Bigler, C., Crowther, T. W., Zohner, C. M., & Stocker, B. D. (2023). Acclimation of phenology relieves leaf longevity constraints in deciduous forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1–7. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-​022-01946-1call_made

Potapov, A. M., Guerra, C. A., van den Hoogen, J., Babenko, A., Bellini, B. C., Berg, M. P., Chown, S. L., Deharveng, L., Kováč, Ľ., Kuznetsova, N. A., Ponge, J.-F., Potapov, M. B., Russell, D. J., Alexandre, D., Alatalo, J. M., Arbea, J. I., Bandyopadhyaya, I., Bernava, V., Bokhorst, S., … Scheu, S. (2023). Globally invariant metabolism but density-​diversity mismatch in springtails. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 1. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-​023-36216-6call_made

Siles, J. A., Vera, A., Díaz-​López, M., García, C., van den Hoogen, J., Crowther, T. W., Eisenhauer, N., Guerra, C., Jones, A., Orgiazzi, A., Delgado-​Baquerizo, M., & Bastida, F. (2023). Land-​use- and climate-​mediated variations in soil bacterial and fungal biomass across Europe and their driving factors. Geoderma, 434, 116474. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116474call_made

Zohner, C. M., Mirzagholi, L., Renner, S. S., Mo, L., Rebindaine, D., Bucher, R., Palouš, D., Vitasse, Y., Fu, Y. H., Stocker, B. D., & Crowther, T. W. (2023). Effect of climate warming on the timing of autumn leaf senescence reverses after the summer solstice. Science, 381(6653), eadf5098. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1126/science.adf5098call_made

2022
Averill, C., Fortunel, C., Maynard, D. S., van den Hoogen, J., Dietze, M. C., Bhatnagar, J. M., & Crowther, T. W. (2022). Alternative stable states of the forest mycobiome are maintained through positive feedbacks. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1–8. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-​022-01663-9call_made

Crowther, T. W., Thomas, S. M., van den Hoogen, J., Robmann, N., Chavarría, A., Cottam, A., Cole, R., Elliott, T., Clark, E., Max, S., Danylo, O., Rowe, C. (2022). Restor: Transparency and connectivity for the global environmental movement. One Earth, 5(5), 476–481. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.04.003call_made

Garcia, C.A., Savilaakso, S., Verburg, R.W. et al. (2022). Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking. Nature Sustainability. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-​022-00881-0call_made

Gatti, R. C., Reich, P. B., Gamarra, J. G. P., Crowther, T., Hui, C., Morera, A., Bastin, J.-F., de-​Miguel, S., Nabuurs, G.-J., Svenning, J.-C., Serra-​Diaz, J. M., Merow, C., Enquist, B., Kamenetsky, M., Lee, J., Zhu, J., Fang, J., Jacobs, D. F., Pijanowski, B., … Liang, J. (2022). The number of tree species on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(6). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2115329119help

Maschler, J., Keller, J., Bialic-​Murphy, L., Zohner, C. M., & Crowther, T. W. (2022). Carbon source reduction postpones autumn leaf senescence in a widespread deciduous tree. Frontiers in Plant Science, 1645. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.868860call_made

Maynard, D. S., Bialic-​Murphy, L., Zohner, C. M., Averill, C., van den Hoogen, J., Ma, H., Mo, L., Smith, G. R., Acosta, A. T. R., Aubin, I., Berenguer, E., Boonman, C. C. F., Catford, J. A., Cerabolini, B. E. L., Dias, A. S., González-​Melo, A., Hietz, P., Lusk, C. H., Mori, A. S., … Crowther, T. W. (2022). Global relationships in tree functional traits. Nature Communications, 13(1), 3185. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-​022-30888-2call_made

Vitasse, Y., Baumgarten, F., Zohner, C. M., Rutishauser, T., Pietragalla, B., Gehrig, R., ... & Sparks, T. H. (2022). The great acceleration of plant phenological shifts. Nature Climate Change, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-​022-01283-y
Wan, J., & Crowther, T. W. (2022). Uniting the scales of microbial biogeochemistry with trait‐based modeling. Functional Ecology. external pagehttp://doi.org/10.1111/1365-​2435.14035call_made
 

2021
Bradford, M. A., Maynard, D. S., Crowther, T. W., Frankson, P. T., Mohan, J. E., Steinrueck, C., Veen, G. F. (Ciska), King, J. R., & Warren II, R. J. (2021). Belowground community turnover accelerates the decomposition of standing dead wood. Ecology, 102(11), e03484. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3484help

Braghiere, R. K., Fisher, J. B., Fisher, R. A., Shi, M., Steidinger, B. S., Sulman, B. N., Soudzilovskaia, N. A., Yang, X., Liang, J., Peay, K. G., Crowther, T. W., & Phillips, R. P. (2021). Mycorrhizal Distributions Impact Global Patterns of Carbon and Nutrient Cycling. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(19), e2021GL094514. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094514call_made

Crowther, T. W., van den Hoogen, J., & Lauber, T. (2021). Pan-​tropical forest carbon storage within 350 million hectares of land. Forum For Responsibility. external pagehttps://www.forum-​fuer-verantwortung.de/wp-​content/uploads/2021/05/ETH-​Studie_2021.pdfcall_made

García-​Palacios, P., Crowther, T. W., Dacal, M., Hartley, I. P., Reinsch, S., Rinnan, R., Rousk, J., van den Hoogen, J., Ye, J.-S., & Bradford, M. A. (2021). Evidence for large microbial-​mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2(7), 507–517. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-​021-00178-4call_made

Guerra, C. A., Bardgett, R. D., Caon, L., Crowther, T. W., Delgado-​Baquerizo, M., Montanarella, L., Navarro, L. M., Orgiazzi, A., Singh, B. K., Tedersoo, L., Vargas-​Rojas, R., Briones, M. J. I., Buscot, F., Cameron, E. K., Cesarz, S., Chatzinotas, A., Cowan, D. A., Djukic, I., van den Hoogen, J., … Eisenhauer, N. (2021). Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity. Science, 371(6526), 239–241. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd7926call_made

Hoogen, J. van den, Robmann, N., Routh, D., Lauber, T., Tiel, N. van, Danylo, O., & Crowther, T. W. (2021). A geospatial mapping pipeline for ecologists (p. 2021.07.07.451145). external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.07.451145call_made

Huang, R., Crowther, T. W., Sui, Y., Sun, B., & Liang, Y. (2021). High stability and metabolic capacity of bacterial community promote the rapid reduction of easily decomposing carbon in soil. Communications Biology, 4(1), 1–12. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-​021-02907-3call_made

Lembrechts, J. J., van den Hoogen, J., Aalto, J., Ashcroft, M. B., De Frenne, P., Kemppinen, J., Kopecký, M., Luoto, M., Maclean, I. M. D., Crowther, T. W., Bailey, J. J., Haesen, S., Klinges, D. H., Niittynen, P., Scheffers, B. R., Van Meerbeek, K., Aartsma, P., Abdalaze, O., Abedi, M., … Lenoir, J. (2021). Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology, n/a(n/a). external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16060call_made

Ma, H., Mo, L., Crowther, T. W., Maynard, D. S., van den Hoogen, J., Stocker, B. D., Terrer, C., & Zohner, C. M. (2021). The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5(8), 1110–1122. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-​021-01485-1help

Maynard, D. S., Bialic-​Murphy, L., Zohner, C. M., Averill, C., van den Hoogen, J., Ma, H., Mo, L., Smith, G. R., Aubin, I., Berenguer, E., Boonman, C. C. F., Catford, J., Cerabolini, B. E. L., Dias, A. S., González-​Melo, A., Hietz, P., Lusk, C. H., Mori, A. S., Niinemets, Ü., … Crowther, T. W. (2021). Global trade-​offs in tree functional traits (p. 2021.09.16.458157). external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.16.458157call_made

Picard, N., Mortier, F., Ploton, P., Liang, J., Derroire, G., Bastin, J.-F., Narayanan, A., Bénédet, F., Bosela, F., Clark, C., Crowther, T., Obiang, N., Forni, É., Harris, D., Ngomanda, A., Poulsen, J., Sonké, B., Couteron, P., & Gourlet-​Fleury, S. (2021). Using Model Analysis to Unveil Hidden Patterns in Tropical Forest Structures. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.599200call_made

Tian, P., Liu, S., Zhao, X., Sun, Z., Yao, X., Niu, S., Crowther, T. W., & Wang, Q. (2021). Past climate conditions predict the influence of nitrogen enrichment on the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration. Communications Earth & Environment, 2(1), 1–9. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-​021-00324-2call_made

Tiel, N. van, Lyu, L., Fopp, F., Brun, P., Hoogen, J. van den, Karger, D. N., Zimmermann, N. E., Crowther, T. W., & Pellissier, L. (2021). Mapping tree species for restoration potential resilient to climate change (p. 2021.06.04.447113). external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.04.447113call_made

Walker, T. W. N., Gavazov, K., Guillaume, T., Lambert, T., Mariotte, P., Routh, D., Signarbieux, C., Block, S., Münkemüller, T., Nomoto, H., Crowther, T. W., Richter, A., Buttler, A., & Alexander, J. M. (2021). Lowland plant migrations into alpine ecosystems amplify soil carbon loss under climate warming (p. 2021.07.21.453211). external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.21.453211call_made

Wang, J., Quan, Q., Chen, W., Tian, D., Ciais, P., Crowther, T. W., Mack, M. C., Poulter, B., Tian, H., Luo, Y., Wen, X., Yu, G., & Niu, S. (2021). Increased CO2 emissions surpass reductions of non-​CO2 emissions more under higher experimental warming in an alpine meadow. Science of The Total Environment, 769, 144559. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144559call_made

Wuepper, D., Borrelli, P., Panagos, P., Lauber, T., Crowther, T., Thomas, A., & Robinson, D. A. (2021). A ‘debt’ based approach to land degradation as an indicator of global change. Global Change Biology, 27(21), 5407–5410. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15830call_made

Zohner, C. M., Renner, S. S., Sebald, V., & Crowther, T. W. (2021). How changes in spring and autumn phenology translate into growth-​experimental evidence of asymmetric effects. Journal of Ecology, 109(7), 2717–2728. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/1365-​2745.13682call_made

2020
Alibakhshi, S., Crowther, T. W., & Naimi, B. (2020). Land surface black-​sky albedo at a fixed solar zenith angle and its relation to forest structure during peak growing season based on remote sensing data. Data in Brief, 31, 105720. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105720call_made

Alibakhshi, S., Naimi, B., Hovi, A., Crowther, T. W., & Rautiainen, M. (2020). Quantitative analysis of the links between forest structure and land surface albedo on a global scale. Remote Sensing of Environment, 246, 111854. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111854call_made

Anthony, M. A., Crowther, T. W., Maynard, D. S., van den Hoogen, J., & Averill, C. (2020). Distinct Assembly Processes and Microbial Communities Constrain Soil Organic Carbon Formation. One Earth, 2(4), 349–360. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.03.006call_made

Braghiere, R. K., Fisher, J., Fisher, R. A., Shi, M., Steidinger, B. N., Sulman, B. N., Soudzilovskaia, N., Yang, X., Liang, J., Peay, K. G., Crowther, T. W., & Phillips, R. P. (2020, September 18). Climate change impacts on mycorrhizae amplify nitrogen limitation on global plant growth (world) [Preprint]. Earth and Space Science Open Archive; Earth and Space Science Open Archive. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10504333.1call_made

Cardil, A., de-​Miguel, S., Silva, C. A., Reich, P. B., Calkin, D., Brancalion, P. H. S., Vibrans, A. C., Gamarra, J. G. P., Zhou, M., Pijanowski, B. C., Hui, C., Crowther, T. W., Hérault, B., Piotto, D., Salas-​Eljatib, C., Broadbent, E. N., Zambrano, A. M. A., Picard, N., Aragão, L. E. O. C., … Liang, J. (2020). Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires. Environmental Research Letters, 15(12), 121003. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1088/1748-​9326/abcac7call_made

Cook-​Patton, S. C., Leavitt, S. M., Gibbs, D., Harris, N. L., Lister, K., Anderson-​Teixeira, K. J., Briggs, R. D., Chazdon, R. L., Crowther, T. W., Ellis, P. W., Griscom, H. P., Herrmann, V., Holl, K. D., Houghton, R. A., Larrosa, C., Lomax, G., Lucas, R., Madsen, P., Malhi, Y., … Griscom, B. W. (2020). Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth. Nature, 585(7826), 545–550. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-​020-2686-xcall_made

Crowther, T. W. (2020). The emergence of trait-​based approaches in fungal ecology. Fungal Ecology, 46, 100946. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2020.100946call_made

Lembrechts, J. J., Aalto, J., Ashcroft, M. B., De Frenne, P., Kopecký, M., Lenoir, J., Luoto, M., Maclean, I. M. D., Roupsard, O., Fuentes-​Lillo, E., García, R. A., Pellissier, L., Pitteloud, C., Alatalo, J. M., Smith, S. W., Björk, R. G., Muffler, L., Ratier Backes, A., Cesarz, S., … Nijs, I. (2020). SoilTemp: A global database of near-​surface temperature. Global Change Biology, 26(11), 6616–6629. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15123call_made

Lustenhouwer, N., Maynard, D. S., Bradford, M. A., Lindner, D. L., Oberle, B., Zanne, A. E., & Crowther, T. W. (2020). A trait-​based understanding of wood decomposition by fungi. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(21), 11551–11558. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909166117call_made

Manoli, G., Fatichi, S., Schläpfer, M., Yu, K., Crowther, T. W., Meili, N., Burlando, P., Katul, G., & Zeid, E. B. (2020). Reply to Martilli et al. (2020): Summer average urban-​rural surface temperature differences do not indicate the need for urban heat reduction. OSF Preprints. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/mwpnacall_made

Mo, F., Yu, K.-L., Crowther, T. W., Wang, J.-Y., Zhao, H., Xiong, Y.-C., & Liao, Y.-C. (2020). How plastic mulching affects net primary productivity, soil C fluxes and organic carbon balance in dry agroecosystems in China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 263, 121470. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121470call_made

Mrema, E. M., Crowther, T. W., Mathai, W., Brooks, T., Archibald, S., Brancalion, P., Barbier, E. B., Obura, D., Reyes-​García, V., Bond, W. J., Koh, L. P., Christophersen, T., & Brondizio, E. S. (2020). Ten years to restore a planet. One Earth, 3(6), 647–652. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.11.015call_made

Sitters, J., Wubs, E. R. J., Bakker, E. S., Crowther, T. W., Adler, P. B., Bagchi, S., Bakker, J. D., Biederman, L., Borer, E. T., Cleland, E. E., Eisenhauer, N., Firn, J., Gherardi, L., Hagenah, N., Hautier, Y., Hobbie, S. E., Knops, J. M. H., MacDougall, A. S., McCulley, R. L., … Veen, G. F. (Ciska). (2020). Nutrient availability controls the impact of mammalian herbivores on soil carbon and nitrogen pools in grasslands. Global Change Biology, 26(4), 2060–2071. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15023call_made

Smith, G. R., Crowther, T. W., Eisenhauer, N., & van den Hoogen, J. (2020). Building a global database of soil microbial biomass and function: A call for collaboration. Soil Organisms, 91(3), 139–142. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.25674/so91iss3pp140call_made

van den Hoogen, J., Geisen, S., Wall, D. H., Wardle, D. A., Traunspurger, W., de Goede, R. G. M., Adams, B. J., Ahmad, W., Ferris, H., Bardgett, R. D., Bonkowski, M., Campos-​Herrera, R., Cares, J. E., Caruso, T., de Brito Caixeta, L., Chen, X., Costa, S. R., Creamer, R., da Cunha e Castro, J. M., … Crowther, T. W. (2020). A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition. Scientific Data, 7(1), 103. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-​020-0437-3call_made

Yu, K., Hoogen, J. V. D., Wang, Z., Averill, C., Routh, D., Smith, G. R., Drenovsky, R., Scow, K., Mo, F., Waldrop, M., Yang, Y., Vries, F. D., Bardgett, R., Manning, P., Bastida, F., Baer, S., Bach, E., García, C., Wang, Q., … Crowther, T. (2020). The biogeography of soil fungal and bacterial biomass is tied to the efficiency of decomposition at global scale. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.22541/au.158514379.96037923call_made

Zani, D., Crowther, T. W., Mo, L., Renner, S. S., & Zohner, C. M. (2020). Increased growing-​season productivity drives earlier autumn leaf senescence in temperate trees. Science, 370(6520), 1066–1071. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd8911call_made

Zanne, A. E., Abarenkov, K., Afkhami, M. E., Aguilar-​Trigueros, C. A., Bates, S., Bhatnagar, J. M., Busby, P. E., Christian, N., Cornwell, W. K., Crowther, T. W., Flores-​Moreno, H., Floudas, D., Gazis, R., Hibbett, D., Kennedy, P., Lindner, D. L., Maynard, D. S., Milo, A. M., Nilsson, R. H., … Treseder, K. K. (2020). Fungal functional ecology: Bringing a trait-​based approach to plant-​associated fungi. Biological Reviews, 95(2), 409–433. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12570call_made

Zohner, C. M., Mo, L., Pugh, T. A. M., Bastin, J.-F., & Crowther, T. W. (2020). Interactive climate factors restrict future increases in spring productivity of temperate and boreal trees. Global Change Biology, 26(7), 4042–4055. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15098call_made

Zohner, C. M., Mo, L., Renner, S. S., Svenning, J.-C., Vitasse, Y., Benito, B. M., Ordonez, A., Baumgarten, F., Bastin, J.-F., Sebald, V., Reich, P. B., Liang, J., Nabuurs, G.-J., de-​Miguel, S., Alberti, G., Antón-​Fernández, C., Balazy, R., Brändli, U.-B., Chen, H. Y. H., … Crowther, T. W. (2020). Late-​spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(22), 12192–12200. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920816117call_made
2019
Bastin, J.-F., Clark, E., Elliott, T., Hart, S., Hoogen, J. van den, Hordijk, I., Ma, H., Majumder, S., Manoli, G., Maschler, J., Mo, L., Routh, D., Yu, K., Zohner, C. M., & Crowther, T. W. (2019). Understanding climate change from a global analysis of city analogues. PLOS ONE, 14(7), e0217592. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217592call_made

Bastin, J.-F., Finegold, Y., Garcia, C., Gellie, N., Lowe, A., Mollicone, D., Rezende, M., Routh, D., Sacande, M., Sparrow, B., Zohner, C. M., & Crowther, T. W. (2019). Response to Comments on “The global tree restoration potential.” Science, 366(6463), eaay8108. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay8108call_made

Bastin, J.-F., Finegold, Y., Garcia, C., Mollicone, D., Rezende, M., Routh, D., Zohner, C. M., & Crowther, T. W. (2019). The global tree restoration potential. Science, 365(6448), 76–79. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax0848call_made

Bastin, J.-F., Finegold, Y., Garcia, C., Mollicone, D., Rezende, M., Routh, D., Zohner, C. M., & Crowther, T. W. (2019). Forest restoration: Transformative trees—Response. Science, 366(6463), 317–317. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz2148call_made

Bastin, J.-F., Finegold, Y., Garcia, C., Mollicone, D., Rezende, M., Routh, D., Zohner, C. M., & Crowther, T. W. (2019). Response to Comment on “The global tree restoration potential.” Science, 366(6469), eaaz0493. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz0493call_made

Bradford, M. A., McCulley, R. L., Crowther, T. W., Oldfield, E. E., Wood, S. A., & Fierer, N. (2019). Cross-​biome patterns in soil microbial respiration predictable from evolutionary theory on thermal adaptation. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3(2), 223–231. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-​018-0771-4call_made

Cavicchioli, R., Ripple, W. J., Timmis, K. N., Azam, F., Bakken, L. R., Baylis, M., Behrenfeld, M. J., Boetius, A., Boyd, P. W., Classen, A. T., Crowther, T. W., Danovaro, R., Foreman, C. M., Huisman, J., Hutchins, D. A., Jansson, J. K., Karl, D. M., Koskella, B., Mark Welch, D. B., … Webster, N. S. (2019). Scientists’ warning to humanity: Microorganisms and climate change. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 17(9), 569–586. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-​019-0222-5call_made

Crowther, T. W., Riggs, C., Lind, E. M., Borer, E. T., Seabloom, E. W., Hobbie, S. E., Wubs, J., Adler, P. B., Firn, J., Gherardi, L., Hagenah, N., Hofmockel, K. S., Knops, J. M. H., McCulley, R. L., MacDougall, A. S., Peri, P. L., Prober, S. M., Stevens, C. J., & Routh, D. (2019). Sensitivity of global soil carbon stocks to combined nutrient enrichment. Ecology Letters, 22(6), 936–945. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13258call_made

Crowther, T. W., van den Hoogen, J., Wan, J., Mayes, M. A., Keiser, A. D., Mo, L., Averill, C., & Maynard, D. S. (2019). The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry. Science, 365(6455), eaav0550. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav0550call_made


Dawson, S. K., Boddy, L., Halbwachs, H., Bässler, C., Andrew, C., Crowther, T. W., Heilmann-​Clausen, J., Nordén, J., Ovaskainen, O., & Jönsson, M. (2019). Handbook for the measurement of macrofungal functional traits: A start with basidiomycete wood fungi. Functional Ecology, 33(3), 372–387. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/1365-​2435.13239call_made

Duncanson, L., Armston, J., Disney, M., Avitabile, V., Barbier, N., Calders, K., Carter, S., Chave, J., Herold, M., Crowther, T. W., Falkowski, M., Kellner, J. R., Labrière, N., Lucas, R., MacBean, N., McRoberts, R. E., Meyer, V., Næsset, E., Nickeson, J. E., … Williams, M. (2019). The Importance of Consistent Global Forest Aboveground Biomass Product Validation. Surveys in Geophysics, 40(4), 979–999. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-​019-09538-8call_made

Jia, J., Cao, Z., Liu, C., Zhang, Z., Lin, L., Wang, Y., Haghipour, N., Wacker, L., Bao, H., Dittmar, T., Simpson, M. J., Yang, H., Crowther, T. W., Eglinton, T. I., He, J.-S., & Feng, X. (2019). Climate warming alters subsoil but not topsoil carbon dynamics in alpine grassland. Global Change Biology, 25(12), 4383–4393. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14823call_made

Manoli, G., Fatichi, S., Schläpfer, M., Yu, K., Crowther, T. W., Meili, N., Burlando, P., Katul, G. G., & Bou-​Zeid, E. (2019). Magnitude of urban heat islands largely explained by climate and population. Nature, 573(7772), 55–60. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-​019-1512-9call_made

Maynard, D. S., Bradford, M. A., Covey, K. R., Lindner, D., Glaeser, J., Talbert, D. A., Tinker, P. J., Walker, D. M., & Crowther, T. W. (2019). Consistent trade-​offs in fungal trait expression across broad spatial scales. Nature Microbiology, 4(5), 846–853. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-​019-0361-5call_made

Phillips, H. R. P., Guerra, C. A., Bartz, M. L. C., Briones, M. J. I., Brown, G., Crowther, T. W., Ferlian, O., Gongalsky, K. B., van den Hoogen, J., Krebs, J., Orgiazzi, A., Routh, D., Schwarz, B., Bach, E. M., Bennett, J. M., Brose, U., Decaëns, T., König-​Ries, B., Loreau, M., … Eisenhauer, N. (2019). Global distribution of earthworm diversity. Science, 366(6464), 480–485. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax4851call_made

Steidinger, B. S., Crowther, T. W., Liang, J., Van Nuland, M. E., Werner, G. D. A., Reich, P. B., Nabuurs, G. J., de-​Miguel, S., Zhou, M., Picard, N., Herault, B., Zhao, X., Zhang, C., Routh, D., & Peay, K. G. (2019). Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-​tree symbioses. Nature, 569(7756), 404–408. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-​019-1128-0call_made

Tang, J., Bradford, M. A., Carey, J., Crowther, T. W., Machmuller, M. B., Mohan, J. E., & Todd-​Brown, K. (2019). Chapter 8—Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon. In J. E. Mohan (Ed.), Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming (pp. 175–208). Academic Press. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/B978-​0-12-813493-1.00009-​0call_made

Thurner, M., Beer, C., Crowther, T., Falster, D., Manzoni, S., Prokushkin, A., & Schulze, E.-D. (2019). Sapwood biomass carbon in northern boreal and temperate forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28(5), 640–660. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12883call_made

van den Hoogen, J., Geisen, S., Routh, D., Ferris, H., Traunspurger, W., Wardle, D. A., de Goede, R. G. M., Adams, B. J., Ahmad, W., Andriuzzi, W. S., Bardgett, R. D., Bonkowski, M., Campos-​Herrera, R., Cares, J. E., Caruso, T., de Brito Caixeta, L., Chen, X., Costa, S. R., Creamer, R., … Crowther, T. W. (2019). Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale. Nature, 572(7768), 194–198. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-​019-1418-6call_made

Wang, Z., Yu, K., Lv, S., Niklas, K. J., Mipam, T. D., Crowther, T. W., Umaña, M. N., Zhao, Q., Huang, H., & Reich, P. B. (2019). The scaling of fine root nitrogen versus phosphorus in terrestrial plants: A global synthesis. Functional Ecology, 33(11), 2081–2094. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/1365-​2435.13434call_made

 

2018
Bastida, F., Crowther, T. W., Prieto, I., Routh, D., García, C., & Jehmlich, N. (2018). Climate shapes the protein abundance of dominant soil bacteria. Science of The Total Environment, 640–641, 18–21. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.288call_made

Crowther, T. W., Boddy, L., & Maynard, D. S. (2018). The use of artificial media in fungal ecology. Fungal Ecology, 32, 87–91. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2017.10.007call_made

Crowther, T. W., Machmuller, M. B., Carey, J. C., Allison, S. D., Blair, J. M., Bridgham, S. D., Burton, A. J., Dijkstra, F. A., Elberling, B., Estiarte, M., Larsen, K. S., Laudon, H., Lupascu, M., Marhan, S., Mohan, J., Niu, S., J. Peñuelas, J., Schmidt, I. K., Templer, P. H., … Bradford, M. A. (2018). More Data But No New Answers; Crowther et al. Reply. Nature, 554(7693), E7–E8. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/nature25746call_made

Culina, A., Baglioni, M., Crowther, T. W., Visser, M. E., Woutersen-​Windhouwer, S., & Manghi, P. (2018). Navigating the unfolding open data landscape in ecology and evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(3), 420–426. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-​017-0458-2call_made

Culina, A., Crowther, T. W., Ramakers, J. J. C., Gienapp, P., & Visser, M. E. (2018). How to do meta-​analysis of open datasets. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(7), 1053–1056. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-​018-0579-2call_made

Goymer, P. (2018). A trillion trees. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(2), 208–209. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-​018-0464-z

Hartmann, H., Schuldt, B., Sanders, T. G. M., Macinnis-​Ng, C., Boehmer, H. J., Allen, C. D., Bolte, A., Crowther, T. W., Hansen, M. C., Medlyn, B. E., Ruehr, N. K., & Anderegg, W. R. L. (2018). Monitoring global tree mortality patterns and trends. Report from the VW symposium ‘Crossing scales and disciplines to identify global trends of tree mortality as indicators of forest health.’ New Phytologist, 217(3), 984–987. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14988call_made

Harvey, J. A., van den Berg, D., Ellers, J., Kampen, R., Crowther, T. W., Roessingh, P., Verheggen, B., Nuijten, R. J. M., Post, E., Lewandowsky, S., Stirling, I., Balgopal, M., Amstrup, S. C., & Mann, M. E. (2018). Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-​Change Denial by Proxy. BioScience, 68(4), 281–287. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bix133call_made

Maynard, D. S., Covey, K. R., Crowther, T. W., Sokol, N. W., Morrison, E. W., Frey, S. D., van Diepen, L. T. A., & Bradford, M. A. (2018). Species associations overwhelm abiotic conditions to dictate the structure and function of wood-​decay fungal communities. Ecology, 99(4), 801–811. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2165call_made

Oldfield, E. E., Crowther, T. W., & Bradford, M. A. (2018). Substrate identity and amount overwhelm temperature effects on soil carbon formation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 124, 218–226. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.06.014call_made

Ramirez, K. S., Knight, C. G., de Hollander, M., Brearley, F. Q., Constantinides, B., Cotton, A., Creer, S., Crowther, T. W., Davison, J., Delgado-​Baquerizo, M., Dorrepaal, E., Elliott, D. R., Fox, G., Griffiths, R. I., Hale, C., Hartman, K., Houlden, A., Jones, D. L., Krab, E. J., … de Vries, F. T. (2018). Detecting macroecological patterns in bacterial communities across independent studies of global soils. Nature Microbiology, 3(2), 189–196. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-​017-0062-xcall_made

Smith, J. R., Letten, A. D., Ke, P.-J., Anderson, C. B., Hendershot, J. N., Dhami, M. K., Dlott, G. A., Grainger, T. N., Howard, M. E., Morrison, B. M. L., Routh, D., San Juan, P. A., Mooney, H. A., Mordecai, E. A., Crowther, T. W., & Daily, G. C. (2018). A global test of ecoregions. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(12), 1889–1896. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-​018-0709-xcall_made

Soliveres, S., Lehmann, A., Boch, S., Altermatt, F., Carrara, F., Crowther, T. W., Delgado-​Baquerizo, M., Kempel, A., Maynard, D. S., Rillig, M. C., Singh, B. K., Trivedi, P., & Allan, E. (2018). Intransitive competition is common across five major taxonomic groups and is driven by productivity, competitive rank and functional traits. Journal of Ecology, 106(3), 852–864. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1111/1365-​2745.12959call_made

Todd-​Brown, K., Zheng, B., & Crowther, T. W. (2018). Field-​warmed soil carbon changes imply high 21st-​century modeling uncertainty. Biogeosciences, 15(12), 3659–3671. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.5194/bg-​15-3659-2018call_made

Walker, D. M., Murray, C. M., Talbert, D., Tinker, P., Graham, S. P., & Crowther, T. W. (2018). A salamander’s top down effect on fungal communities in a detritivore ecosystem. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94(12), fiy168. external pagehttps://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiy168call_made