Ian McFadden. 2024. Futureproofing Europe’s Forests (News & Views). Nature Ecology & Evolution. (link to paper).
Imran Khaliq, Christian Rixen, Florian Zellweger, Catherine Graham, Martin Gossner, Ian McFadden, Laura Antao, Jakob Broderson, Shyamolina Ghosh, Francesco Pomati, Ole Seehausen, Tobias Roth, Thomas Sattler, Sarah Supp, Maria Riaz, Niklaus Zimmermann, Blake Matthews, Anita Narwani. 2024. Warming underpins community turnover in temperate freshwater and terrestrial communities. Nature Communications, 15:1921. (link to paper)
Marco Coelho, Elisa Barreto, Thiago Rangel, José Diniz-Filho, Rafael Wüest, Wilhelmine Bach, Alexander Skeels, Ian McFadden, David Roberts, Loïc Pellissier, Niklaus Zimmermann, Catherine Graham. 2023. The geography of climate and the global patterns of species diversity. Nature, 622:537-544. (link to paper, News and Views, press release, The Conversation)
Alke Voskamp, Susanne Fritz, Valerie Köcke, Matthias Biber, Timo Brockmeyer, Bastian Bertzky, Matthew Forrest, Angela Gaylard, Allie Goldstein, Scott Henderson, Thomas Hickler, Christian Hof, Thomas Kastner, Stefanie Lang, Peter Manning, Mike Mascia, Ian McFadden, Aidin Niamir, Monica Noon, Brian O’Donell, Mark Opel, Sophie Peter, Georg Schwede, Peyton West, Christof Schenck, Katrin Böhning-Gaese. 2023. Utilizing multi-objective decision support tools for protected area selection. One Earth, 6:1143-1156. (link to paper)
Alex Skeels, Lydian Boschmann, Ian McFadden, Elizabeth Joyce, Oscar Hagen, Octavio Jiménez-Robles, Wilhelmine Bach, Victor Boussange, Thomas Keggin, Walter Jetz, Loïc Pellissier. 2023. Paleoenvironments shaped the exchange of terrestrial vertebrates across Wallace’s Line. Science, 381:86-92. (link to paper, press release, The Conversation)
Esteban Guevara, Carolina Bello, Cristian Poveda, Ian McFadden, Loïc Pellissier, Matthias Schleuning, Catherine Graham. 2023. Hummingbird community structure and resources modulate the response of interspecific competition to forest conversion. Oecologia, 201:761–770.(link to paper)
Ian McFadden*, Agnieszka Sendek*, Morgane Brosse, Peter Bach, Marco Baity-Jesi, Janine Bolliger, Kurt Bollmann, Eckehard Brockerhoff, Giulia Donati, Friederike Gebert, Shyamolina Ghosh, Hsi-Cheng Ho, Imran Khaliq, Jelle Lever, Ivana Logar, Helen Moor, Daniel Odermatt, Loïc Pellissier, Luiz de Queiroz, Christian Rixen, Nele Schuwirth, Ryan Shipley, Cornelia Twining, Yann Vitasse, Christoph Vorburger, Mark Wong, Niklaus Zimmermann, Ole Seehausen, Martin Gossner, Blake Matthews, Catherine Graham, Florian Altermatt, Anita Narwani. 2022. Linking human impacts to community processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.Ecology Letters, 26:203-218. (*equal effort, link to paper, selected as cover article, press release)
Luiz de Queiroz, Carmela Doenz, Florian Altermatt, Roman Alther, Špela Borko, Jakob Brodersen, Martin Gossner, Catherine Graham, Blake Matthews, Ian McFadden, Loïc Pellissier, Thomas Schmitt, Oliver Selz, Soraya Villalba, Lukas Rüber, Niklaus Zimmermann, Ole Seehausen. 2022. Climate, immigration and speciation shape terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity in the European Alps. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 289:20221020. (link to paper)
Ian McFadden, Susanne Fritz, Niklaus Zimmermann, Loïc Pellissier, Daniel Kissling, Joseph Tobias, Matthias Schleuning, Catherine Graham. 2022. Global plant-frugivore trait matching is shaped by climate and biogeographic history. Ecology Letters, 25:686-696. (link to paper, press release, part of special issue featured on cover, coverage by Convention on Biological Diversity, the Austrian Press Agency, Züri Today, link to data, link to code)
Ian McFadden, Brody Sandel, Constantinos Tsirogiannis, Naia Morueta-Holme, Jens-Christian Svenning, Brian Enquist, Nathan Kraft. 2019. Temperature shapes opposing latitudinal gradients of plant taxonomic and phylogenetic β diversity. Ecology Letters, 22:1126-1135. (link to paper, selected as cover article, link to data)
Claire Fortunel, Ian McFadden, Renato Valencia, Nathan Kraft. 2019. Neither species geographic range size, climatic envelope nor intraspecific leaf trait variability capture habitat specialization in a hyperdiverse Amazonian forest. Biotropica, 51:304-310. (link to paper, link to trait data)
Ian McFadden, Megan Bartlett, Thorsten Wiegand, Benjamin Turner, Lawren Sack, Renato Valencia, Nathan Kraft. 2018. Disentangling the functional trait correlates of spatial aggregation in tropical forest trees. Ecology, 100:E02591. (link to paper, link to code, link to trait data)
Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Mary Arroyo, Robin Abell, David Ackerly … Ian McFadden (79 authors total) … Silvia Ziller. 2018. Chapter 3: Status, trends and future dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystems underpinning nature’s contributions to people. InThe IPBES regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for the Americas. Bonn, Germany, pp. 171-293. (link to report, summary for policymakers, coverage by Nature, the Guardian, National Geographic)
In revision
Ian McFadden, Marco Coelho, Rafael Wüest, Fernanda Cassemiro, Niklaus Zimmermann, Loïc Pellissier, Thiago Rangel, Catherine Graham. Global hotspots of recent and ancestral turnover in birds. (preprint)
Loïc Pellissier, Lydian Boschman, Catherine Graham, Oskar Hagen, Roland Jansson, Lisha Lyu, Ian McFadden, Thiago Rangel, Christopher Scotese, Zhiheng Wang, Niklaus Zimmermann, Charles de Santana, Albouy Camille. Looking beyond latitude: Quantifying longitudinal diversity patterns to infer biodiversity dynamics through time.
In preparation
Ian McFadden, Florian Altermatt, Fabio Benedetti, Martin Gossner, Catherine Graham, Nicolas Gruber, Martina Hobi, Blake Matthews, Loïc Pellissier, Luiz Jardim de Queiroz, Damiano Righetti, Meike Vogt, Tom Wohlgemuth, Ole Seehausen, Niklaus Zimmermann. Unpacking the land-sea biodiversity paradox with a 300,000 species dataset.
Open data and code
Ian McFadden. Global plant-frugivore trait matching data and R code to reproduce McFadden et al. 2022a Ecology Letters (link to GitHub repository)
Ian McFadden. Global avian frugivore bill gape size dataset (1,129 species, 12,925 individuals) from McFadden et al. 2022a Ecology Letters (link to dataset on Dryad)
Ian McFadden. New World plant phylogeny and occurrence dataset (81,274 species) from McFadden et al. 2019 Ecology Letters (link to dataset on Dryad)
Ian McFadden. Amazonian leaf drought tolerance and mechanical toughness dataset (454 species) from McFadden et al. 2018 Ecology (link to dataset on TRY)
Nathan Kraft and Ian McFadden. Amazonian leaf SLA and leaf area intra-specific trait variation dataset (43 species, 486 individuals) from Fortunel et al. 2018 Biotropica (link to dataset on TRY)
Ian McFadden. R functions to infer the relative roles of dispersal and filtering on tree spatial patterns using spatial point process models from McFadden et al. 2018 Ecology (link to GitHub repository)
Ian McFadden. Syllabus, datasheets, data and code for UCLA trait transects discussion-lab (link to repo, more info)
Non-refereed publications
Ian McFadden. 2019. Separating the effects of multiple processes on diversity patterns in an Amazonian tree community and the New World flora. PhD Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles. (link)
Alejandro Estrada, Ian McFadden, Rhett Butler. 2011. Beginning a fourth year of Tropical Conservation Science with OJS, a new publishing platform. Tropical Conservation Science, 4:i-iii (link)
Ian McFadden. 2011. Back from a century of extinction, conservation proposed for elusive Asian flying squirrel (press release). Mongabay.com. (link)
Ian McFadden. 2008. Seed dispersal adaptations of a mass-fruiting plant community in Malaysian Borneo. Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Sarah Federman and Ian McFadden. 2007. Prey composition of Nepenthes pitchers in relation to pitcher morphology and habitat type. Course paper, Harvard Biodiversity of Borneo Summer School.
