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Comparing two ground-based seed count methods and their effect on masting metrics (2025)
Journal Article
Foest, J. J., Bogdziewicz, M., Caignard, T., Hadad, M., Thomas, P. A., & Hacket-Pain, A. (in press). Comparing two ground-based seed count methods and their effect on masting metrics. Forest Ecology and Management, 581, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122551

Masting, i.e. interannually variable and synchronized seed production, plays a crucial role in forest ecosystems, influencing wildlife dynamics, pathogen prevalence, and forest regeneration. Accurately capturing masting variability is important for e... Read More about Comparing two ground-based seed count methods and their effect on masting metrics.

Growth decline in European beech associated with temperature-driven increase in reproductive allocation (2025)
Journal Article
Hacket-Pain, A., Szymkowiak, J., Journe, V., Barczyk, M., Thomas, P., Lageard, J., Kelly, D., & Bogdziewicz, M. (2025). Growth decline in European beech associated with temperature-driven increase in reproductive allocation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(5), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423181122

Climate change is impacting forests in complex ways, with indirect effects arising from interactions between tree growth and reproduction often overlooked. Our 43-y study of European beech ( Fagus sylvatica ) showed that rising summer temperatures si... Read More about Growth decline in European beech associated with temperature-driven increase in reproductive allocation.

Masting ontogeny: the largest masting benefits accrue to the largest trees (2024)
Journal Article
Szymkowiak, J., Hacket-Pain, A., Kelly, D., Foest, J., Kondrat, K., Thomas, P., Lageard, J., Gratzer, G., Pesendorfer, M. B., & Bogdziewicz, M. (in press). Masting ontogeny: the largest masting benefits accrue to the largest trees. Annals of Botany, https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcae197

Background and Aims. Both plants and animals display considerable variation in their phenotypic traits as they grow. This variation helps organisms to adapt to specific challenges at different stages of development. Masting, the variable and synchron... Read More about Masting ontogeny: the largest masting benefits accrue to the largest trees.

The Relationship Between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size From Tropical to Boreal Climates. (2024)
Journal Article
Journé, V., Bogdziewicz, M., Courbaud, B., Kunstler, G., Qiu, T., Acuña, M., Ascoli, D., Bergeron, Y., Berveiller, D., Boivin, T., Bonal, R., Caignard, T., Cailleret, M., Calama, R., Camarero, J. J., Chang-Yang, C.-H., Chave, J., Chianucci, F., Curt, T., Cutini, A., …Clark, J. S. (2024). The Relationship Between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size From Tropical to Boreal Climates. Ecology Letters, 27(9), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14500

The fundamental trade-off between current and future reproduction has long been considered to result in a tendency for species that can grow large to begin reproduction at a larger size. Due to the prolonged time required to reach maturity, estimates... Read More about The Relationship Between Maturation Size and Maximum Tree Size From Tropical to Boreal Climates..

First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XVI: Size Evolution of Massive Dusty Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn from UV to IR (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Punyasheel, P., Vijayan, A. P., Greve, T. R., Roper, W. J., Algera, H., Gillman, S., Gullberg, B., Irodotou, D., Lovell, C. C., Seeyave, L. T., Thomas, P. A., & Wilkins, S. M. First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XVI: Size Evolution of Massive Dusty Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn from UV to IR

We use the First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) to study the evolution of the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) and far-infrared (FIR) sizes for a statistical sample of massive ($\gtrsim10^{9}$M$_{\odot}$) high redshift galaxies (z $\in$... Read More about First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XVI: Size Evolution of Massive Dusty Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn from UV to IR.

International Biological Flora: Ceratonia siliqua (2024)
Journal Article
Thomas, P. A., Garcia‐Martí, X., Mukassabi, T. A., & Tous, J. (in press). International Biological Flora: Ceratonia siliqua. Journal of Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14325

This account presents information on all aspects of the biology of Ceratonia siliqua L. (Carob) that are relevant to understanding its ecological characteristics and behaviour. The main topics are presented within the standard framework of the Intern... Read More about International Biological Flora: Ceratonia siliqua.

Should the relationship between leaf margin and temperature be re‐defined for areas with colder climates? (2024)
Journal Article
Iszkuło, G., Tyrała‐Wierucka, Ż., Thomas, P. A., Terlecka, M., Walas, Ł., & Tomaszewski, D. (in press). Should the relationship between leaf margin and temperature be re‐defined for areas with colder climates?. Journal of Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14855

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The well-proven positive correlation between the increased proportion of entire-leaved woody dicotyledonous species and increased mean annual temperature has been commonly used to estimate temperature in the past. However, in regions of colder c... Read More about Should the relationship between leaf margin and temperature be re‐defined for areas with colder climates?.

First light and reionization epoch simulations (FLARES) IX: the physical mechanisms driving compact galaxy formation and evolution (2023)
Journal Article
Roper, W. J., Lovell, C. C., Vijayan, A. P., Irodotou, D., Kuusisto, J. K., Matharu, J., Seeyave, L. T. C., Thomas, P. A., & Wilkins, S. M. (2023). First light and reionization epoch simulations (FLARES) IX: the physical mechanisms driving compact galaxy formation and evolution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 526(4),

In the First Light And Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) suite of hydrodynamical simulations, we find the high-redshift (z > 5) intrinsic size–luminosity relation is, surprisingly, negatively sloped. However, after including the effects of dust... Read More about First light and reionization epoch simulations (FLARES) IX: the physical mechanisms driving compact galaxy formation and evolution.

Evolutionary history of Castanea sativa in the Caucasus driven by Middle and Late Pleistocene paleoenvironmental changes (2023)
Journal Article
Beridze, B., Sękiewicz, K., Walas, Ł., Thomas, P. A., Danelia, I., Kvartskhava, G., Farzaliyev, V., Bruch, A. A., & Dering, M. (2023). Evolutionary history of Castanea sativa in the Caucasus driven by Middle and Late Pleistocene paleoenvironmental changes. AoB PLANTS, 15(5), https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plad059

Due to global climate cooling and aridification since the Paleogene, members of the Neogene flora were extirpated from the Northern Hemisphere or were confined to a few refugial areas. For some species, the final reduction/extinction came in the Plei... Read More about Evolutionary history of Castanea sativa in the Caucasus driven by Middle and Late Pleistocene paleoenvironmental changes.

First light and reionization epoch simulations (FLARES) X iii: the lyman-continuum emission of high-redshift galaxies (2023)
Journal Article
Seeyave, L. T. C., Wilkins, S. M., Kuusisto, J. K., Lovell, C. C., Irodotou, D., Simmonds, C., Vijayan, A. P., Thomas, P. A., Roper, W. J., Byrne, C. M., Jones, G. T., Turner, J. C., & Conselice, C. J. (2023). First light and reionization epoch simulations (FLARES) X iii: the lyman-continuum emission of high-redshift galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525(2), 2422-2440. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2487

Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients (2023)
Journal Article
Qiu, T., Aravena, M.-C., Ascoli, D., Bergeron, Y., Bogdziewicz, M., Boivin, T., Bonal, R., Caignard, T., Cailleret, M., Calama, R., Calderon, S. D., Camarero, J. J., Chang-Yang, C.-H., Chave, J., Chianucci, F., Courbaud, B., Cutini, A., Das, A. J., Delpierre, N., Delzon, S., …Clark, J. S. (in press). Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients. Nature Plants, 9(7), 1044-1056. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01446-5

The benefits of masting (volatile, quasi-synchronous seed production at lagged intervals) include satiation of seed predators, but these benefits come with a cost to mutualist pollen and seed dispersers. If the evolution of masting represents a balan... Read More about Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients.

Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Viscum album (2022)
Journal Article
Thomas, P. A., Dering, M., Giertych, M. J., Iszkuło, G., Tomaszewski, D., & Briggs, J. (2022). Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Viscum album. Journal of Ecology, 111(3), 701-739. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14036

This account presents information on all aspects of the biology of Viscum album L. (Mistletoe) that are relevant to understanding its ecological characteristics and behaviour. The main topics are presented within the standard framework of the Biologi... Read More about Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Viscum album.

Past climatic refugia and landscape resistance explain spatial genetic structure in Oriental beech in the South Caucasus (2022)
Journal Article
Sękiewicz, K., Danelia, I., Farzaliyev, V., Gholizadeh, H., Iszkuło, G., Naqinezhad, A., Ramezani, E., Thomas, P. A., Tomaszewski, D., Walas, Ł., & Dering, M. (2022). Past climatic refugia and landscape resistance explain spatial genetic structure in Oriental beech in the South Caucasus. Ecology and Evolution, 12(9), Article e9320. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9320

Predicting species-level effects of climatic changes requires unraveling the factors affecting the spatial genetic composition. However, disentangling the relative contribution of historical and contemporary drivers is challenging. By applying landsc... Read More about Past climatic refugia and landscape resistance explain spatial genetic structure in Oriental beech in the South Caucasus.