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2025 Publications

Aguirre-Gutiérrez J, Díaz S, Rifai SW, Corral-Rivas JJ, Nava-Miranda MG, González-M R, Hurtado-M AB, Revilla NS, Vilanova E, Almeida E... Malhi Y, et al. 2025a. Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change. Science 387: eadl5414.

Aguirre-Gutiérrez J, Rifai SW, Deng X, Ter Steege H, Thomson E, Corral-Rivas JJ, Guimaraes AF, Muller S, Klipel J, Fauset S... Malhi Y, et al. 2025b. Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests. Nature.

Baker TR, Adu-Bredu S, Affum-Baffoe K, Aiba S, Akite P, Alexiades M, Almeida E, De Oliveira EA, Davila EA, Amani C... Malhi Y, et al. 2025. Large range sizes link fast life histories with high species richness across wet tropical tree floras. Scientific Reports 15: 4695.

Christmann T, Cjuno‐Turpo I, López‐Aranda M, Wilson SJ, Cuni‐Sanchez A, Malhi Y, Ramirez A, Rondán V, Medina Castro F, Mamani M, et al. 2025. ‘Sowing and harvesting water’: Revisiting forest restoration in the Peruvian Andes through a multi‐stakeholder analysis. People and Nature 7: 631–652.

Gorné LD, Aguirre-Gutiérrez J, Souza FC, Swenson NG, Kraft NJB, Schwantes Marimon B, Baker TR, Ferreira De Lima RA, Vilanova E, Álvarez-Dávila E... Malhi Y, et al. 2025. Use and misuse of trait imputation in ecology: the problem of using out‐of‐context imputed values. Ecography: e07520.

Lander TA, Atta-Boateng A, Toledo-Hernández M, Wood A, Malhi Y, Solé M, Tscharntke T, Wanger TC. 2025. Global chocolate supply is limited by low pollination and high temperatures. Communications Earth & Environment 6: 97.

Lu X, Chung C, Malhi Y, Huang C. 2025. Global Patterns in the Allocation of Forest Net Primary Production. Journal of Biogeography 52: e15094.

Maguire-Rajpaul VA, Hirons M, Rajpaul VM, Asare RA, Boyd E, Malhi Y, Mason J, Morel AC, Norris K, McDermott C. 2025. What resilience theory and praxis can learn from multi-dimensional approaches to understanding poverty: A study of Ghanaian cocoa forest landscapes. World Development 185: 106785.

Marsh CJ, Turner EC, Blonder BW, Bongalov B, Both S, Cruz RS, Elias DMO, Hemprich-Bennett D, Jotan P, Kemp V... Malhi Y, et al. 2025. Tropical forest clearance impacts biodiversity and function, whereas logging changes structure. Science 387: 171–175.

Palola P, Pittman SJ, Collin A, Benkwitt CE, Thomson E, Malhi Y, Graham NAJ, Wedding LM. 2025. Nutrientscape ecology: a whole-system framework to support the understanding and management of coastal nutrient connectivity. Landscape Ecology 40: 48.

Rocha W, Silvério DV, Maracahipes-Santos L, Trumbore S, Malhi Y, Martorano LG, Brando PM. 2025. Drought and fire affect soil CO2 efflux and use of non-structural carbon by roots in forests of southern Amazonia. Forest Ecology and Management 585: 122584.

Sanchez‐Martinez P, Dexter KG, Draper FC, Baraloto C, Leão Do Amaral I, De Souza Coelho L, De Almeida Matos FD, De Andrade Lima Filho D, Salomão RP, Wittmann F... Malhi Y, et al. 2025. Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa. Functional Ecology 39: 181–198.

Sullivan MJP, Phillips OL, Galbraith D, Almeida E, De Oliveira EA, Almeida J, Dávila EÁ, Alves LF, Andrade A, Aragão L... Malhi Y, et al. 2025. Variation in wood density across South American tropical forests. Nature Communications 16: 2351.

Ter Steege H, Poorter L, Aguirre-Gutiérrez J, Fortunel C, Magnusson WE, Phillips OL, Pos E, Luize BG, Baraloto C, Guevara JE... Malhi Y, et al. 2025. Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests. Communications Biology 8: 355.

2024 Publications

Boonman CCF, Serra-Diaz JM, Hoeks S, Guo W-Y, Enquist BJ, Maitner B, Malhi Y, Merow C, Buitenwerf R, Svenning J-C. 2024. More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change. Nature Communications 15: 166.

Cooper DLM, Lewis SL, Sullivan MJP, Prado PI, Ter Steege H, Barbier N, Slik F, Sonké B, Ewango CEN, Adu-Bredu S... Malhi Y, et al. 2024. Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities. Nature 625: 728–734.

Dahlsjö CAL, Atkins T, Malhi Y. 2024. Large invertebrate decomposers contribute to faster leaf litter decomposition in Fraxinus excelsior-dominated habitats: Implications of ash dieback. Heliyon 10: e27228.

Dahlsjö CAL, Malhi Y. 2024. Unravelling a hidden synergy: How pathogen-climate interactions transform habitat hydrology and affect tree growth. Science of The Total Environment 954: 176325.

Dechant B, Kattge J, Pavlick R, Schneider FD, Sabatini FM, Moreno-Martínez Á, Butler EE, Van Bodegom PM, Vallicrosa H, Kattenborn T... Malhi Y, et al. 2024. Intercomparison of global foliar trait maps reveals fundamental differences and limitations of upscaling approaches. Remote Sensing of Environment 311: 114276.

Doughty CE, Gaillard C, Burns P, Malhi Y, Shenkin A, Minor D, Duncanson L, Aguirre‐Gutiérrez J, Goetz S, Tang H. 2024. Satellite Derived Trait Data Slightly Improves Tropical Forest Biomass, NPP and GPP Estimates. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 129: e2024JG008108.

Duvall ES, Le Roux E, Pearson HC, Roman J, Malhi Y, Abraham AJ. 2024. Resisting the carbonization of animals as climate solutions. Nature Climate Change 14: 892–895.

 

Ewers RM, Orme CDL, Pearse WD, Zulkifli N, Yvon-Durocher G, Yusah KM, Yoh N, Yeo DCJ, Wong A, Williamson J...Malhi Y, et al. 2024. Thresholds for adding degraded tropical forest to the conservation estate. Nature 631: 808–813.

Gauci V, Pangala SR, Shenkin A, Barba J, Bastviken D, Figueiredo V, Gomez C, Enrich-Prast A, Sayer E, Stauffer T... Malhi Y, et al. 2024. Global atmospheric methane uptake by upland tree woody surfaces. Nature 631: 796–800.

Gopalakrishna T, Visconti P, Lomax G, Boere E, Malhi Y, Roy PS, Joshi PK, Fedele G, Yowargana P. 2024. Optimizing restoration: A holistic spatial approach to deliver Nature’s Contributions to People with minimal tradeoffs and maximal equity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121: e2402970121.

Hogan JA, Lichstein JW, Helmer EH, Craig ME, Fricke E, Henrich V, Kannenberg SA, Koven CD, Goldewjik KK, Lapola DM... Malhi Y, et al. 2024. Anthromes and forest carbon responses to global change. Plants, People, Planet: ppp3.10609.

Hordijk I, Bialic‐Murphy L, Lauber T, Routh D, Poorter L, Rivers MC, Ter Steege H, Liang J, Reich PB, de‐Miguel S... Malhi Y, et al. 2024. Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33: e13889.

Householder JE, Wittmann F, Schöngart J, Piedade MTF, Junk WJ, Latrubesse EM, Quaresma AC, Demarchi LO, De S. Lobo G, Aguiar DPPD... Malhi Y, et al. 2024. One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8: 901–911.

Hülsmann L, Chisholm RA, Comita L, Visser MD, De Souza Leite M, Aguilar S, Anderson-Teixeira KJ, Bourg NA, Brockelman WY, Bunyavejchewin S... Malhi Y, et al. 2024. Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities. Nature 627: 564–571.

Hwang BC, Giardina CP, Adu-Bredu S, Barrios-Garcia MN, Calvo-Alvarado JC, Dargie GC, Diao H, Duboscq-Carra VG, Hemp A, Hemp C... Malhi Y, et al. 2024. The impact of insect herbivory on biogeochemical cycling in broadleaved forests varies with temperature. Nature Communications 15: 6011.

Kristensen JÅ, Barbero-Palacios L, Barrio IC, Jacobsen IBD, Kerby JT, López-Blanco E, Malhi Y, Le Moullec M, Mueller CW, Post E... Malhi Y, et al. 2024. Tree planting is no climate solution at northern high latitudes. Nature Geoscience 17: 1087–1092.

Leite MDS, McMahon SM, Prado PI, Davies SJ, Oliveira AAD, De Deurwaerder HP, Aguilar S, Anderson‐Teixeira KJ, Aqilah N, Bourg NA... Malhi Y, et al. 2024. Major axes of variation in tree demography across global forests. Ecography 2024: e07187.

Luize BG, Bauman D, Ter Steege H, Palma‐Silva C, Do Amaral IL, De Souza Coelho L, De Almeida Matos FD, De Andrade Lima Filho D, Salomão RP, Wittmann F... Malhi Y, et al. 2024a. Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities. Journal of Biogeography 51: 1163–1184.

Luize BG, Tuomisto H, Ekelschot R, Dexter KG, Amaral ILD, Coelho LDS, Matos FDDA, Lima Filho DDA, Salomão RP, Wittmann F... Malhi Y, et al. 2024b. The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora. Communications Biology 7: 1240.

Macdonald EA, Cushman SA, Malhi Y, Macdonald DW. 2024. Comparing expedient and proactive approaches to the planning of protected area networks on Borneo. npj Biodiversity 3: 20.

Machado MS, Berenguer E, Brando PM, Alencar A, Oliveras Menor I, Barlow J, Malhi Y. 2024. Emergency policies are not enough to resolve Amazonia’s fire crises. Communications Earth & Environment 5: 204.

Malhi Y, Daily GC. 2024. Bringing nature into decision-making. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 379: 20220313.

Mills MB, Both S, Jotan P, Huaraca Huasco W, Cruz R, Pillco MM, Burslem DFRP, Maycock C, Malhi Y, Ewers RM, et al. 2024. From tree to plot: investigating stem  CO2  efflux and its drivers along a logging gradient in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. New Phytologist 244: 91–103.

Mo L, Crowther TW, Maynard DS, Van Den Hoogen J, Ma H, Bialic-Murphy L, Liang J, de-Miguel S, Nabuurs G-J, Reich PB... Malhi Y, et al. 2024. The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8: 2195–2212.

Morel AC, Demissie S, Gonfa T, Mehrabi Z, Rifai S, Hirons MA, Gole TW, Mason J, McDermott CL, Boyd E... Malhi Y, et al. 2024. Landscape and management influences on smallholder agroforestry yields show shifts during a climate shock. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 366: 108930.

Peterson EA, Stuart CE, Pittman SJ, Benkwitt CE, Graham NAJ, Malhi Y, Salmon T, Stoll B, Purkis SJ, Wedding LM. 2024. Graph-theoretic modeling reveals connectivity hotspots for herbivorous reef fishes in a restored tropical island system. Landscape Ecology 39: 145.

Picot LE, Hill G, Sarpong B, Obeng AA, Mensah FK, Adjei KA, Adjei RK, Malhi Y, McDermott CL. 2024. Cocoa vs. food crops: smallholders’ seasonal food access and extension support for climate adaptation in Ghana. Climate and Development: 1–13.

Visakorpi K, Gripenberg S, Malhi Y, Riutta T. 2024. Low-intensity insect herbivory could have large effects on ecosystem productivity through reduced canopy photosynthesis. Web Ecology 24: 97–113.

Wu H, Dahlsjö CAL, Malhi Y. 2024. Evaluating the impact of an invasive pathogen on tree population decline: An evidence based modelling approach. Forest Ecology and Management 566: 122098.

Zhang-Zheng H, Adu-Bredu S, Duah-Gyamfi A, Moore S, Addo-Danso SD, Amissah L, Valentini R, Djagbletey G, Anim-Adjei K, Quansah J... Malhi Y, et al. 2024a. Contrasting carbon cycle along tropical forest aridity gradients in West Africa and Amazonia. Nature Communications 15: 3158.

Zhang-Zheng H, Deng X, Aguirre-Gutiérrez J, Stocker BD, Thomson E, Ding R, Adu-Bredu S, Duah-Gyamfi A, Gvozdevaite A, Moore S... Malhi Y, et al. 2024b. Why models underestimate West African tropical forest primary productivity. Nature Communications 15: 9574.

2023 Publications

Balmford A. et al (including Malhi (2023) Credit credibility threatens forests. Science (New York, N.Y.), 380 (6644). pp. 466-467

 

Carvalho RL et al (including Malhi (2023). Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research. Curr Biol. 2023 Aug 21;33(16):3544. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.046. Erratum for: Curr Biol. 2023 Aug 21;33(16):3495-3504.e4.

Christmann, T., Palomeque, X., Armenteras, D., Wilson, S. J., Malhi, Y., & Oliveras Menor, I. (2023). Disrupted montane forest recovery hinders biodiversity conservation in the tropical Andes. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32, 793– 808

 

Correa, D. F., et al. (including Malhi) (2023). Geographic patterns of tree dispersal modes in Amazonia and their ecological correlates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32, 49– 69.

 

de Lima, R.B. et al (including Malhi (2023) Giants of the Amazon: How does environmental variation drive the diversity patterns of large trees?. Global Change Biology.

 

de Souza Leite, M. et al (including Huaraca Huasco W. and Malhi, Y.)  (2023) Major axes of variation in tree demography across global forests. bioRxiv 2023.01.11.523538.

Dechant B. et al (including Malhi and Aguierre- Aguirre-Gutierrez) (2023). Intercomparison of global foliar trait maps reveals fundamental differences and limitations of upscaling approaches EarthArXiv

Delavaux, C.S et al. (including Malhi). 2023. Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity. Communications Biology, 6(1), p.1066.
 

Delavaux, C.S et al. (including Malhi), 2023. Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions. Nature 621, 773–781

Doughty,C. E, et al. .(Including Malhi and Oliveras) (2023). Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds. Nature (2023): 1-7.

Doughty, C.E., Gaillard, C., Burns, P., Keany, J., Abraham, A., Malhi, Y.S., Aguirre-Gutierrez, J., Koch, G., Jantz, P., Shenkin, A. and Tang, H., (2023). Tropical forests are mainly unstratified especially in Amazonia and regions with lower fertility or higher temperatures. Environmental Research: Ecology.

 

González-Caro S. et al. (including Malhi), 2023.Historical Assembly of Andean Tree Communities. Plants. 2023; 12(20):3546.

 

Hawkins, I., Smith, A., Addison, P., Malhi, Y., Whitney, M. and zu Ermgassen, S., (2023). The potential contribution of revenue from Biodiversity Net Gain offsets towards nature recovery ambitions in Oxfordshire.

 

Hordijk, I. et al (including Malhi)  (2023). Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness. Journal of Ecology, 111, 1308–1326.

 

Jennison, C.B., Ostertag, R., Rayome, D., Cordell, S. and Malhi, Y., (2023). Non-timber Forest Products Survey of Forest Landscape Restoration: A Case Study of Hybrid Ecosystem Restoration in Invaded Hawaiian Forest. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 42(7), pp.712-727.

 

Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S., et al.  (including Malhi), (2023). Intraspecific Trait Variability is a Key Feature Underlying High Arctic Plant Community Resistance to Climate Warming. Ecological Monographs 93( 1): e1555.

 

Ma, H., Crowther, T.W., Mo, L. et al. (including Malhi). 2023. The global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit. Nat. Plants 9, 1795–1809

Mills MB, Malhi Y, Ewers RM, Kho LK, Teh YA, Both S, Burslem DFRP, Majalap N, Nilus R, Huaraca Huasco W, Cruz R, Pillco MM, Turner EC, Reynolds G, Riutta T. (2023) Tropical forests post-logging are a persistent net carbon source to the atmosphere. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 120(3) e2214462120.

 

Mo et al. (including Malhi). 2023. Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential. Nature

 

Pos E., et al. (including Malhi) (2023). Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology.Scientific Reports 13.1: 2859.

Tavares, J.V. et al. (including Malhi)  (2023). Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests. Nature: 1-7.

 

Ter Steege et al. (including Malhi). 2023. Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora. Communications Biology, 6(1), p.1130.

 

Vedovato LB, et al (including Malhi) (2023). Ancient fires enhance Amazon forest drought resistance. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change E-ISSN 2624-893X, Vol. 6, article id 1024101.

 

Vinicius Peripato et al. (including Malhi), 2023. More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia.Science382,103-109

 

Westerband, A. C., Wright, I. J., Maire, V., Paillassa, J., Prentice, I. C., Atkin, O. K., Bloomfield, K. J., Cernusak, L. A., Dong, N., Gleason, S. M., Guilherme Pereira, C., Lambers, H., Leishman, M. R., Malhi, Y., & Nolan, R. H. (2023). Coordination of photosynthetic traits across soil and climate gradients. Global Change Biology, 29, 856– 873

Zelazowski, P., Jozefowicz, S., Feeley, K.J. and Malhi, Y., (2023). Establishing the Position and Drivers of the Eastern Andean Treeline with Automated Transect Sampling. Remote Sensing, 15(10), p.2679.

 

Zhang-Zheng H, Malhi Y, Gvozdevaite A, Peprah T, Boackye M, Ziemińska K, Adu-Bredu S, Aguirre-Gutiérrez J, Sandoval D, Prentice C, Oliveras I. (2023) Photosynthetic and water transport strategies of plants along a tropical forest aridity gradient: a test of optimality theory.  doi:10.1101/2023.01.10.523419.

2022 Publications

Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, J., Berenguer, E., Oliveras Menor, I. et al. 2022. Functional susceptibility of tropical forests to climate change. Nat Ecol Evol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01747-6

 

Bauman, D., Fortunel, C., Cernusak, L.A., Bentley, L.P., McMahon, S.M., Rifai, S.W., Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, J., Oliveras, I., Bradford, M., Laurance, S.G.  Delhaye, G... and Y Malhi. 2022. Tropical tree growth sensitivity to climate is driven by species intrinsic growth rate and leaf traits. Global change biology, 28(4), pp.1414-1432.

Bauters, M., et al.  (including Malhi, Oliveras and Riutta) 2022 Tropical wood stores substantial amounts of nutrients, but we have limited understanding why. Biotropica.

Gatti, R.C. (including Malhi), et al. 2022. The number of tree species on Earth.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.6


Gonzalez‐Akre, E. (including Malhi), et al. 2022 : An R package for biomass estimation at globally distributed extratropical forest plots." Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13.2: 330-338.
 

Gopalakrishna, T., Lomax, G., Aguirre‐Gutiérrez, J., Bauman, D., Roy, P.S., Joshi, P.K. and Malhi, Y., 2022. Existing land uses constrain climate change mitigation potential of forest restoration in India. Conservation Letters, p.e12867.

Malhi, Y., Lander, T., le Roux, E., Stevens, N., Macias-Fauria, M., Wedding, L., Girardin, C., Kristensen, J.Å., Sandom, C.J., Evans, T.D. and Svenning, J.C and Canney S.., 2022. The role of large wild animals in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Current Biology, 32(4), pp.R181-R196.

 

Nottingham, A. T., et al (including Malhi, Huaraca Huasco and Riutta). 2022 Large contribution of recent photosynthate to soil respiration in tropical dipterocarp forest revealed by girdling. Journal of Ecology 110.2, 387-403.

 

Reis, S.M., et al. (including Malhi) 2022. Climate and crown damage drive tree mortality in southern Amazonian edge forests. Journal of Ecology

Signori‐Müller, C., et al (including Malhi) 2022. Variation of non‐structural carbohydrates across the fast–slow continuum in Amazon Forest canopy trees." Functional Ecology 36.2 : 341-355.

Scerri, E.M., Roberts, P., Yoshi Maezumi, S. and Malhi, Y., 2022. Tropical forests in the deep human past. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1849), p.20200500.

2021 Publications

Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J. et al. (Including Berenguer, Girardin, Riutta, Shenkin, Oliveras and Malhi) (2021). Pantropical modelling of canopy functional traits using Sentinel-2 remote sensing data. Remote Sensing of Environment 252: 112122.

 

Barreto, J.R., Berenguer, E., Ferreira, J., Joly, C.A., Malhi, Y., de Seixas, M.M.M. and Barlow, J., (2021). Assessing invertebrate herbivory in human‐modified tropical forest canopies. Ecology and evolution, 11(9), pp.4012-4022.

 

Bennett, A.C., Dargie, G.C., Cuni-Sanchez, A., Mukendi, J.T., Hubau, W., Mukinzi, J.M., Phillips, O.L., Malhi, Y., Sullivan, M.J., Cooper, D.L. and Adu-Bredu, S., (2021). Resistance of African tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly. PNAS, 118(21).

 

Berenguer, E. et al (Including Malhi). (2021). Tracking the impacts of El Niño drought and fire in human-modified Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(30).

 

Blundo, C., et al. (Including Malhi) . (2021). Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots. Biological Conservation: 108849.

 

Cardoso, A.W., Oliveras, I., Abernethy, K.A., Jeffery, K.J., Glover, S., Lehmann, D., Edzang Ndong, J., White, L.J., Bond, W.J. and Malhi, Y., (2021). A distinct ecotonal tree community exists at central African forest–savanna transitions. Journal of Ecology, 109(3), pp.1170-1183.

 

Creedy, T., Asare, R.A., Morel, A.C., Hirons, M., Malhi, Y., Mason, J.J., McDermott, C., Opoku, E. and Norris, K., (2021). Climate change alters impacts of extreme climate events on a tropical perennial tree crop (https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1086061/v1).

 

Cuni-Sanchez, A., et al (Including Malhi) (2021). High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests. Nature, 596(7873), pp.536-542.

 

Davies, S.J et al. (Including Malhi). (2021). ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network. Biological Conservation, 253, p.108907.


de Morais, T.M.O., Berenguer, E., Barlow, J., França, F., Lennox, G.D., Malhi, Y., Rossi, L.C., de Seixas, M.M.M. and Ferreira, J., (2021). Leaf-litter production in human-modified Amazonian forests following the El Niño-mediated drought and fires of 2015–2016. Forest Ecology and Management, 496, p.119441.

 

Disney M, Jackson T, Shenkin A., Majalap N, bin Jami U., bin Sailim A., Reynolds G.,Coomes D., Chandler C., Boyd D., Burt A., Wilkes P., Malhi Y. (2021) The mechanical stability of the world’s tallest broadleaf trees. Biotropica 53, 110-120.

 

Doughty, C.E., Cheesman, A.W., Riutta, T., Thomson, E.R., Shenkin, A., Nottingham, A.T., Telford, E.M., Huaraca Huasco, W., Majalap, N., Arn Teh, Y. and Meir, P and Malhi Y. (2021). Predicting tropical tree mortality with leaf spectroscopy. Biotropica, 53(2), pp.581-595.

 

Draper, Frederick C., et al. (Including Malhi and Berenguer) (2021). Amazon tree dominance across forest strata. Nature ecology & evolution 5.6 (2021): 757-767.

 

Duque, A. et al. (Including Malhi). (2021). Mature Andean forests as globally important carbon sinks and future carbon refuges. Nature communications 12.1: 1-10. ​

Flack‐Prain, S., Meir, P., Malhi, Y., Smallman, T.L. and Williams, M., (2021). Does economic optimisation explain LAI and leaf trait distributions across an Amazon soil moisture gradient?. Global Change Biology, 27(3), pp.587-605.

 

Girardin, C.A., Jenkins, S., Seddon, N., Allen, M., Lewis, S.L., Wheeler, C.E., Griscom, B.W. and Malhi, Y., (2021). Nature-based solutions can help cool the planet—if we act now. 191-194. ​

 

Kristensen, J.A., Svenning, J.C., Georgiou, K. and Malhi, Y., (2021). Can large herbivores enhance ecosystem carbon persistence?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

 

Li, S., Sparrow, S.N., Otto, F.E., Rifai, S.W., Oliveras, I., Krikken, F., Anderson, L.O., Malhi, Y. and Wallom, D., (2021). Anthropogenic climate change contribution to wildfire-prone weather conditions in the Cerrado and Arc of deforestation. Environmental Research Letters, 16(9), p.094051.

 

Linan, A.G., et al. (Including Malhi) (2021). The evolutionary assembly of forest communities along environmental gradients: recent diversification or sorting of pre-adapted clades?. bioRxiv : 2020-12.

 

Huaraca Huasco, W., et al. (including Girardin, Malhi, Oliveras and Riutta) (2021) Fine root dynamics across pantropical rainforest ecosystems. Global change biology.

Malhi, Y et al. (2021). The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics. Biological Conservation, 253, p.108889.

Meunier, F., Krishna Moorthy, S.M., Peaucelle, M., Calders, K., Terryn, L., Verbruggen, W., Liu, C., Saarinen, N., Origo, N., Nightingale, J. and Disney, M, Malhi Y and Verbeeck H. (2021). Using terrestrial laser scanning to constrain forest ecosystem structure and functions in the Ecosystem Demography model (ED2. 2). Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, pp.1-33.

 

Milodowski, D.T., Coomes, D.A., Swinfield, T., Jucker, T., Riutta, T., Malhi, Y., Svatek, M., Kvasnica, J., Burslem, D.F., Ewers, R.M. and Teh, Y.A., (2021). The impact of logging on vertical canopy structure across a gradient of tropical forest degradation intensity in Borneo. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58(8), pp.1764-1775.

 

Pos, E. et al. (Including Malhi) (2021) The Maximum Entropy Formalism of statistical mechanics in a biological application: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology." bioRxiv.

 

Restrepo-Coupe N, et al. (including Malhi Y) (2021) Understanding water and energy fluxes in the Amazonia: Lessons from an observation‐model intercomparison. Global Change Biology 27: 1802-1819.

 

Riutta, T., Kho, L.K., Teh, Y.A., Ewers, R., Majalap, N. and Malhi, Y., (2021). Major and persistent shifts in below‐ground carbon dynamics and soil respiration following logging in tropical forests. Global change biology, 27(10), pp.2225-2240.,

 

Signori-Müller, C. et al. (Including Malhi). (2021). Non-structural carbohydrates mediate seasonal water stress across Amazon forests. Nature communications 12.1:1-9. ​

 

Thomson, E. R., et al. (Including Malhi). (2021). Multiscale mapping of plant functional groups and plant traits in the High Arctic using field spectroscopy, UAV imagery and Sentinel-2A data. Environmental Research Letters 16.5: 055006.

 

van der Sande, M.T., Bush, M.B., Urrego, D.H., Silman, M., Farfan‐Rios, W., Garcia Cabrera, K., Shenkin, A., Malhi, Y., McMichael, C.H. and Gosling, W., (2021). Modern pollen rain predicts shifts in plant trait composition but not plant diversity along the Andes–Amazon elevational gradient. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32(1), p.e12925.

 

Visakorpi, K., Gripenberg, S., Malhi, Y. and Riutta, T.(2021). Does insect herbivory suppress ecosystem productivity? Evidence from a temperate woodland. bioRxiv.

 

Wilkes, P., Shenkin, A., Disney, M., Malhi, Y., Bentley, L.P. and Vicari, M.B., (2021). Terrestrial laser scanning to reconstruct branch architecture from harvested branches. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

 

Wills C, et al. (including Malhi Y) (2021) Interactions between all pairs of neighboring trees in 16 forests worldwide reveal details of unique ecological processes in each forest, and provide windows into their evolutionary histories. PLOS Computational Biology doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008853

 

Xin, H., Malhi, Y., Coomes, D.A., Lin, Y., Liu, B., Yang, Q. and Shenkin, A.,( 2021). Individual tree detection and crown segmentation based on metabolic theory from airborne laser scanning data. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, 15(3), p.034504.

 

Zhong, Yonglin, et al (Including Malhi).  (2021). Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide. Nature communications 12.; 1-12.

2020 Publications

Aguirre-Gutiérrez J, et al (including Malhi Y and Oliveras I.(2020). Long-term droughts may drive drier tropical forests towards increased functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic homogeneity. Nat Commun 11, 3346

 

Aleman J.C. et al. (Including Malhi) (2020) Floristic evidence for alternative biome states in tropical Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, 28183-28190.

Armenteras D., González TM, Vargas JM, Elizalde MCM, Oliveras I (2020) Incendios en ecosistemas del norte de Suramérica: avances en la ecología del fuego tropical en Colombia, Ecuador y Perú  Caldasia 42 (1).

Asaaga FA , Hirons MA, Malhi Y (2020). Questioning the link between tenure security and sustainable land management in cocoa landscapes in Ghana. World Development 130, 104913

Benone, N.L., Soares, B.E., Lobato, C.M.C., Seabra, L.B., Bauman, D. and de Assis Montag, L.F., (2020). How modified landscapes filter rare species and modulate the regional pool of ecological traits?. Hydrobiologia, pp.1-16.

Blonder, B., Both, S., Jodra, M., Xu, H., Fricker, M., Matos, I.S., Majalap, N., Burslem, D.F., Teh, Y.A. and Malhi, Y. 2020. Linking functional traits to multiscale statistics of leaf venation networks. New Phytol.

Boonman, C.C.F., van Langevelde, F., Oliveras, I., Couédon, J., Luijken, N., Martini, D. and Veenendaal, E.M. (2020), On the importance of root traits in seedlings of tropical tree species. New Phytologist. doi:10.1111/nph.16370

Bush E.R., Jeffery K., Bunnefeld N., Tutin C., Musgrave R., Moussavou G., Mihindou V., Malhi Y., Lehmann D., Edzang Ndong J., Makaga L., Abernethy K. 2020. Rare ground data confirm significant warming and drying in western equatorial Africa. PeerJ 8, e8732. 

Burt A, Calders K, Cuni-Sanchez A, Gómez-Dans J, Lewis P, Lewis SL, Malhi Y, Phillips OL and Disney M (2020) Assessment of Bias in Pan-Tropical Biomass Predictions. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 3:12. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2020.00012

Christmann T & Oliveras I. (2020) Nature of Alpine Ecosystems in Tropical Mountains of South America Elsevier2020. 

Corrêa Scalon M.,  Domingos F.M.C.B., Alves da Cruz W.J., Marimon Júnior B.H., Schwantes Marimon B., Oliveras I. (2020) Diversity of functional trade‐offs enhances survival after fire in Neotropical savanna species Journal of Vegetation Science 31 (1), 139-150 2020

 

Cuma Mushagalusa, F, Bauman, D, Ngoy Shutcha, M, Meerts, P. (2020) Trait divergence of woody species in relation to affinity for termite mounds in Upper Katanga (DR Congo). Journal of Vegetation Science 31, 162– 172.

Delhaye, G., Bauman, D., Séleck, M., Ilunga wa Ilunga, E., Mahy, G. and Meerts, P., (2020). Interspecific trait integration increases with environmental harshness: A case study along a metal toxicity gradient. Functional Ecology, 34(7), pp.1428-1437.

Disney M, Jackson T, Shenkin A., Majalap N, bin Jami U., bin Sailim A., Reynolds G.,Coomes D., Chandler C., Boyd D., Burt A., Wilkes P., Malhi Y. (2020) The mechanical stability of the world’s tallest broadleaf trees. Biotropica

Doughty, C. E., Cheesman, A. W., Ruitta, T., Thomson, E., Shenkin, A., Huasco, W. H., Malhi, Y. 2020. Predicting tropical tree mortality with leaf spectroscopy. EcoEvoRxiv. 

Enquist, B.J., Abraham, A.J., Harfoot, M.B.J. et al (2020). The megabiota are disproportionately important for biosphere functioning. Nat Commun 11, 699. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14369-y

 

Ferracci, V., Bolas, C. G., Freshwater, R. A., Staniaszek, Z., King, T., & Jaars, K., et al. 2020. Continuous isoprene measurements in a UK temperate forest for a whole growing season: Effects of drought stress during the 2018 heatwave. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL088885

García Criado, M, Myers‐Smith, IH, Bjorkman, AD, Lehmann, CER, Stevens, N. (2020) Woody plant encroachment intensifies under climate change across tundra and savanna biomes. Global Ecol Biogeogr. 2020; 29: 925– 943

Goldsmith GR, Fisher J, Oliveras I,  Malhi Y, Doughty C (2020) Comparing and validating measures of water-use efficiency from NASA's ECOSTRESS mission. AGU Fall Meeting

 

Griscom BW et al (2020)National mitigation potential from natural climate solutions in the tropics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375 (1794), 20190126

Hirons, M., Beauchamp E., Whitfield S., ConwayD., Asare, R.and Malhi Y. 2020. Resilience to climate shocks in the tropics. Environmental Research Letters. ISSN 1748-9326 (In Press)

Hubau, W., Lewis, S.L., Phillips, O.L. et al (2020). Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests. Nature 579, 80–87 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2035-0

Ibrahim, F., Adu-Bredu, S., Addo-Danso, S.D., Duah-Gyamfi A., Amponsah Manu E.,  Malhi Y. 2020. Patterns and controls on fine-root dynamics along a rainfall gradient in Ghana. Trees.

Jones, R., Bolas, C. G., Staniaszek, Z., Otu-Larbi, F., Ferracci, V., Malhi, Y., Harris, N. R., et al.(2020). Modelling the effect of the 2018 summer heatwave and drought on isoprene emissions in a UK woodland. Global Change Biology https://doi.org/10.1111/GCB.14963

 

LeClare S.K.,  Mdluli M., Wisely S.M., Stevens N., (2020), Land-use diversity within an agricultural landscape promotes termite nutrient cycling services in a southern African savanna, Global Ecology and Conservation,Volume 21, 2020, e00885,
 

Liang, B., Chen, X., Lang, W., Liu G., Malhi Y., Rifai S. 2020. Examining land surface phenology in the tropical moist forest eco-zone of South America. Int J Biometeorol 

Macias-Fauria M,  Jepson P, Zimov N,  Malhi Y (2020). Pleistocene Arctic megafaunal ecological engineering as a natural climate solution? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375 (1794), 20190122

Malhi Y, Franklin J, Seddon N, Solan M, Turner MG, Field CB, Knowlton N (2020). Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375 (1794), 20190104

Malizia A. et al. 2020. Elevation and latitude drives structure and tree species composition in Andean forests: Results from a large-scale plot network. PloS one, 2020. 

Marshall AR et al (including Malhi) 2020. Conceptualising the global forest response to liana proliferation. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 3, 35. 

Matos IS, Oliveras I, Rifai SW, Rosado BHP (2020) Deciphering the stability of grassland productivity in response to rainfall manipulation experiments. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29 (3), 558-57212020

Muledi, J., Bauman, D., Jacobs, A., Meerts, P., Shutcha, M. and Drouet, T., (2020). Tree growth, recruitment, and survival in a tropical dry woodland: The importance of soil and functional identity of the neighbourhood. Forest Ecology and Management, 460, p.117894.

 

Muscarella, R. et al. 2020. The global abundance of tree palms. Global Ecol Biogeogr.  29: 1495– 1514.

Mushagalusa, F.C., Bauman, D., Bazirake, B.M., Mleci, Y., Kalenga, M., Shutcha, M.N. and Meerts, P., (2020). Phenotypic plasticity, not ecotype differentiation, explains the broad ecological niche of a tree species in African dry woodlands. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 178, p.104186

Nottingham, A., Cheesman, A., Riutta, T., Doughty, C.E., Huasco, W.H., Majalap, N., Malhi, Y. and Teh, Y.A., (2020). Large contribution of recent photosynthate to soil respiration in Dipterocarpaceae-dominated tropical forest revealed by girdling.

Oliveras I, et al (2020). The influence of taxonomy and environment on leaf trait variation along tropical abiotic gradients

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 3, 18

Otu‐Larbi F. et al (including Malhi).2020. Modelling the effect of the 2018 summer heatwave and drought on isoprene emissions in a UK woodland. Global Change Biology, Volume 26, Issue 4, 2320-2335

 

Staver AC , Brando PM, Barlow J, et al (2020). Thinner bark increases sensitivity of wetter Amazonian tropical forests to fire.

Ecology letters 23 (1), 99-106

Rozendaal DMA et al. (including Malhi) 2020. Competition influences tree growth, but not mortality, across environmental gradients in Amazonia and tropical Africa. Ecology, e03052

Sullivan MJP et al. (including Malhi) 2020. Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests. Science 368 (6493), 869-874

Terryn L., Calders K., Disney M., Origo N., Malhi Y., Newnham G., Raumonen P., Å kerblom  M. and Verbeeck H. 2020. Tree species classification using structural features derived from terrestrial laser scanning. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 168, 170-181

Ter Steege H., et al, 2020, Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora. Scientific Reports 10 (1), 1-13

Visakorpi K, Riutta T,  Malhi Y, Salminen JP, Salinas N, Gripenberg S (2020). Changes in oak (Quercus robur) photosynthesis after winter moth (Operophtera brumata) herbivory are not explained by changes in chemical or structural leaf traits. PloS one 15 (1), e0228157

 

Vleminckx, J, Bauman, D, Demanet, M, Hardy, OJ, Doucet, J‐L, Drouet, T. (2020) Past human disturbances and soil fertility both influence the distribution of light‐demanding tree species in a Central African tropical forest. Journal of Vegetation Science. 31, 440– 453.

Walker A.P. et al. 2020. Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2. New Phytol.

 

2019 Publications

 

Aguirre-Gutierrez, J.; Oliveras I.; Rifai S.; Fauset S.; Adu-Bredu S.; Affum-Baffou K.; Baker T.; Feldspausch T.; Gvozdevaite A.; Hubau H.; Kraft N.; Lewis S.; Moore S.; Niiements U.; Prepah T.; Phillips O.; Zieminska K.; Enquist B.; Malhi Y. (2019). Drier tropical forests are susceptible to functional changes in response to a long-term drought. Ecology Letters, doi:10.1111/ele.13243.

Beauchamp, E., Moskeland, A. D., Milner-Gulland, E. J., Hirons, M., Ruli, B., Byg, A., Dougill, A., Jew, E. K. K., Keane, A., Malhi, Y. S., McNicol, I., Morel, A., Whitfield, S., & Morris, R. J. (2019). The role of quantitative cross-case analysis in understanding tropical smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity to climate shocks. Environmental Research Letters.

Blonder, B., Both, S., Jodra, M., Majalap, N., Burslem, D., Teh, Y., & Malhi, Y. (2019). LEAF VENATION NETWORKS OF BORNEAN TREES: IMAGES AND HAND-TRACED SEGMENTATIONS. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 100(4), 1-4. Retrieved February 5, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/26775571

Cardoso, A.W., Malhi, Y., Oliveras, I. et al. (2019). The Role of Forest Elephants in Shaping Tropical Forest–Savanna Coexistence Ecosystems cardoso2019_theroleofforestelephants_ecosystems.pdf https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00424-3

Chavana-Bryant C., Malhi Y., Anastasiou A., Enquist B.J., Cosio E.G., Keenan T.F., Gerard F.F. (2019) Leaf age effects on the spectral predictability of leaf traits in Amazonian canopy trees, Science of the Total Environment, 666, 1301-1315. Supplementary Material

Coelho de Souza F. et al. (2019) Evolutionary diversity is associated with wood productivity in Amazonian forests. Nature Ecology and Evolution

 

Devisscher, T., Malhi, Y. and Boyd, E. (2019) Deliberation for wildfire risk management: Addressing conflicting views in the Chiquitania, Bolivia. The Geographical Journal, 218, 1-17.


 

Durán, S. M., Martin, R. E., Díaz, S., Maitner, B. S., Malhi, Y., Salinas, N., … Enquist, B. J. (2019). Informing trait-based ecology by assessing remotely sensed functional diversity across a broad tropical temperature gradient. Science advances, 5(12), eaaw8114. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaw8114

Elsherif A., Gaulton R., Shenkin A., Malhi Y., Mills J. (2019) Three dimensional mapping of forest canopy equivalent water thickness using dual-wavelength terrestrial laser scanning Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 276, 107627


Esquivel-Muelbert A. et al. (2019) Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change. Global Change Biology, 25, 35 56. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14413. Supplementary 1, Supplementary 2


Hubau et al. (2019) The persistence of carbon in the African forest understory Nature Plants, 5, 133-140. 


Jackson T, Shenkin A, Kalyan B, Zionts J, Calders K, Origo N, Disney M, Burt A, Raumonen P and Malhi Y (2019) A New Architectural Perspective on Wind Damage in a Natural Forest. Front. For. Glob. Change1:13. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2018.00013. 

Jackson T., Shenkin A., Moore J., Bunce A., van Emmerik T., Kane B., Burcham D., James K., Selker J., Calders K., Origo N., Disney M., Burt A., Wilkes P., Raumonen P., Gonzalez de Tanago Menaca J., Lau A., Herold M., Goodman R. C., Fourcaud T. and Malhi Y. (2019)  An architectural understanding of natural sway frequencies in trees, J. R. Soc. Interface, 16  http://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0116 Supplementary Online Material


Julier, A.C. M.; Jardine, P.E.; Adu-Bredu, S.; Coe, A.L.; Fraser, W.T.; Lomax, B.H.; Malhi, Y.; Moore, S.,  Gosling, W.D. (2019). Variability in modern pollen rain from moist and wet tropical forest plots in Ghana, West Africa. Grana, 58(1) pp. 45–62.
 

B. Liang, C. A. L. Dahlsjö, V. Maguire-Rajpaul, Y. Malhi and S. Liu, "Modelling error evaluation of ground observed vegetation parameters," in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. doi: 10.1109/TIM.2019.2956614

Malhi Y.,  Franklin J. ,Seddon N., Solan M., Turner M.G., Field C.B. and Knowlton N. Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions. Published:27 January 2020https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0104
 

M Macias-Fauria, P Jepson, N Zimov, Y Malhi. Pleistocene Arctic megafaunal ecological engineering as a natural climate solution? Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 375:20190122.http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0122

Menge D.N.L. et al. (2019) Patterns of nitrogen‐fixing tree abundance in forests across Asia and America J. Ecologyhttps://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13199  Supplementary Material 

 

Moore C., Morel AC, Asare RA,  Adu Sasu M,  Adu-Bredu S, Malhi Y (2019) Human Appropriated Net Primary Productivity of Complex Mosaic Landscapes, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00038

Morel A., Hirons M., Demissie S., Gonfa T., Mehrabi Z., Long P.R., Rifai S., Woldemariam Gole T., Mason J., McDermott C., Boyd E., Robinson E.J.Z.,  Malhi Y., Norris K. (2019) The structures underpinning vulnerability: Examining landscape-society interactions in a smallholder coffee agroforestry system Environmental Research Letters, 14, 7

 

Otu‐Larbi, F, Bolas, CG, Ferracci, V, et al. Modelling the effect of the 2018 summer heatwave and drought on isoprene emissions in a UK woodland. Glob Change Biol. 2020; 00: 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14963

Rosan, T. M.; Aragão, L.E.O.C.; Oliveras, I.; Phillips, O.; Malhi, Y.; Gloor, E.; Wagner, F. (2019)  Extensive 21st-Century woody encroachment in South America's savanna. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 6594–6603. https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2019GL082327/
 


Staver, A.C., Brando, P.M., Barlow, J., Morton, D.C., Paine, C.T., Malhi, Y., Araujo Murakami, A. and del Aguila, Pasquel, J. (2020), Thinner bark increases sensitivity of wetter Amazonian tropical forests to fire. Ecol Lett, 23: 99-106. doi:10.1111/ele.13409

Swinfield, T, Both, S, Riutta, T, et al. Imaging spectroscopy reveals the effects of topography and logging on the leaf chemistry of tropical forest canopy trees. Glob Change Biol. 2019; 00: 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14903

 

Visakorpi K, Riutta T., Malhi Y., Salminen J.P., Salinas N.,Gripenberg S.Changes in oak (Quercus robur) photosynthesis after winter moth (Operophtera brumata) herbivory are not explained by changes in chemical or structural leaf traits.PLoS One. 2020 Jan 24;15(1):e0228157. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228157.eCollection 2020.

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