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This vignette contains a list of publications that cite or use the GIFT R package, as of 10 of March 2025. It may be useful if you are looking for case studies or examples of specific functionality.

Peer-reviewed research articles

2025

16. Quan, Y., Hederström, V., Ekroos, J., Menubarbe, P., Krausl, T., & Clough, Y. (2025) Landscape composition influences invertebrate herbivory on flowering forbs in semi-natural grasslands. Basic and Applied Ecology.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2025.03.006

15. Guerrero, P., Contador, T., Díaz, A., Escobar, C., Orlando, J., Marín, C., & Medina, P. (2025) Southern Islands Vascular Flora (SIVFLORA) dataset: A global plant database from Southern Ocean islands. Scientific Data.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04702-9

14. Wunderlich, R.F., Jamoneau, A., Boutry, S., Hosni, M., & Bertrin, V.. (2025) Model-based management of macrophytes in shallow lakes under warming. Journal of Environmental Management.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.124543

13. Dugerdil, L., Peyron, O., Violle, C., Joannin, S., Ménot, G., Denelle, P., Bruelheide, H., Chytrý, M., Field, R., Hatim, M. Z., Gholizadeh, H., Dolezal, J., Pillar, V. D., Shaltout, K. H., Schrodt, F., & Garnier, E. (2025) Functional Signatures of Surface Pollen and Vegetation Are Broadly Similar: Good News for Past Reconstructions of Vegetation. Journal of Biogeography.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15100

12. Frisk, C., & Hanslin, M. (2025) Optimizing plant species composition of green roofs for ecological functionality and biodiversity conservation. Urban Ecosystems.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-024-01657-4

2024

11. Cai, L., Kreft, H., Denelle, H., Taylor, A., Craven, D., Dawson, W., Essl, F., van Kleunen, M., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., Winter, M., Cabezas, F., Wagner, V., Pelser, P., Wieringa, J. & Weigelt, P. (2024) Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales. Nature in Ecology and Evolution.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02599-y

10. Barrasso, C., Krüger, R., Eltner, A., Cord, A. (2024) Mapping indicator species of segetal flora for result-based payments in arable land using UAV imagery and deep learning. Ecological Indicators.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112780

9. Schrader, J., Weigelt, P., Cai, L., Westoby, M., Fernández-Palacios, J.-M., Cabezas, F., Plunkett, G., Ranker, T., Triantis, K., Trigas, P., Kubota, Y. & Kreft, H. (2024) Islands are key for protecting the world’s plant endemism. Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08036-1


8. Aros-Mualin, D. Kessler, M. Untangling poikilohydry and desiccation tolerance: evolutionary and macroecological drivers in ferns. Annals of Botany mcae167.
https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcae167


7. Chumová, Z., Havlíčková, E., Zeisek, V., Šemberová, K., Mandáková, T., Euston-Brown, D. and Trávníček, P. (2024), Deciphering Pteronia’s evolution in the Cape Floristic Region: A comprehensive study disputes polyploid deficiency and affirms diploid radiation. Plant J, 119: 2236-2254.
https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16914


6. Avery L. Russell, Stephen L. Buchmann, John S. Ascher, Zhiheng Wang, Ricardo Kriebel, Diana D. Jolles, Michael C. Orr, Alice C. Hughes, Global patterns and drivers of buzzing bees and poricidal plants, Current Biology, Volume 34, Issue 14, 2024, Pages 3055-3063.e5, ISSN 0960-9822
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.05.065


5. Delavaux, C.S., Crowther, T.W., Bever, J.D., Weigelt, P., & Gora, E. Mutualisms weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands. Nature 627, 335–339 (2024).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07110-y


4. Roeble, L., van Benthem, K.J., Weigelt, P., Kreft, H., Knope, M., Mandel, J., Vargas, P., Etienne, R., & Valente, L. Island biogeography of the megadiverse plant family Asteraceae. Nat Commun 15, 7276 (2024).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51556-7


3. Fan, Sy., Yang, Q., Li, Sp., Fristoe, T., Cadotte, M.W., Essl, F., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., Weigelt, P., Kartesz, J., Nishino, M., Wieringa, J., & van Kleunen, M. A latitudinal gradient in Darwin’s naturalization conundrum at the global scale for flowering plants. Nat Commun 14, 6244 (2023).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41607-w


2. Eva Benavides Rios, Jonathan Sadler, Laura Graham, Thomas J. Matthews, Species distribution models and island biogeography: Challenges and prospects, Global Ecology and Conservation, Volume 51, (2024), e02943, ISSN 2351-9894
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e02943


## 2023 1. Cai, Lirong, Holger Kreft, Amanda Taylor, Julian Schrader, Wayne Dawson, Franz Essl, Mark van Kleunen, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, and Marten Winter. “Climatic Stability and Geological History Shape Global Centers of Neo-and Paleoendemism in Seed Plants.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, no. 30 (2023): e2300981120.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2300981120


Preprint

1. Domazetoski, V., Kreft, H., Bestova, H., Wieder, P., Koynov, R., Zarei, A., & Weigelt, P. (2024) Using natural language processing to extract plant functional traits from unstructured text. BioRXiv
https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.06.565787