Publications

Published in 2025

  1. Offerhaus, A., Bertin, A., Kardinaal, A., Porck, H., Van Andel, T., & Stefanaki, A. (2025). The d’Oignies herbarium: contents and origins of an early 18th-century plant collection from the Netherlands. Botany Letters, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/23818107.2024.2439428
  2. Treviño I.; Gouda, E.; Quipuscoa, V.; Bravo, C. Puya vallis-colcaensis (Bromeliaceae) a new species from the Peruvian Andes. Phytotaxa 683(1): 72-78.
  3. Gouda, E.J. (2025) Aechmea pittieri a distinct species from Aechmea bracteata. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 74(2): 74-79. (http://bromeliad.nl/getLiterature.php?LaWQ9NTMzNg==)
  4. Gouda, E.J. (2025) "A drawing says more than a thousand words". Journal of the Bromeliad Society 74(2): 80. (http://bromeliad.nl/getLiterature.php?CaWQ9NTMzNw==)
  5. Baker, T.R., Adu-Bredu, S., Affum-Baffoe, K. et al. (incl. ter Steege) Large range sizes link fast life histories with high species richness across wet tropical tree floras. Sci Rep 15, 4695 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-84367-3
  6. Correa, Sandra Bibiana, et al. (incl. ter Steege) "Floodplain forests drive fruit-eating fish diversity at the Amazon Basin-scale." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122.3 (2025): e2414416122.
  7. Gerkema, J., Bunker, D. E., Cunliffe, A. M., Bazzato, E., Marignani, M., Sitzia, T., ... & Pos, E. T. (2025). Robustness and limitations of maximum entropy in plant community assembly. Ecological Informatics, 103031.
  8. Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Jesús, et al. (incl. ter Steege) "Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change." Science 387.6738 (2025): eadl5414.
  9. Aguirre-Gutiérrez, Jesús, et al. (incl. ter Steege) "Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests." Nature (2025): 1-8.
  10. Ter Steege, Hans, et al. (incl. Pos, E.T. ) "Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests." Communications Biology 8.1 (2025): 355.

Published in 2024

  1. Morales, J.F.; Gouda, E.; Cascante M., A. (2024) New Records and Miscellaneous Notes on the Bromeliaceae of Trinidad and Tobago.  Caribbean Journal of Science 54: 18–25.
  2. Cooper, D.L.M., Lewis, S.L., Sullivan, M.J.P. et al. (incl. ter Steege) Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities. Nature 625, 728–734 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06820-z
  3. Cooper, D., Lewis, S., ter Steege, H., Sullivan, M., Slik, J.W.F. & Barbier, N. (2024). Consistent Patterns of Common Species Across Tropical Forest Tree Communities. figshare. Dataset. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.21670883.v1
  4. Renato A. F. de Lima, R.A.F., Dauby, G., de Gasper, A.L., Fernandez, E.P., Vibrans, A.C., de Oliveira, A.A., Prado, P.I., Souza, V.C., de Siqueira, M.F. & ter Steege, H. (2024) Comprehensive conservation assessments reveal high extinction risks across Atlantic Forest trees. Science 383: 219-225 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abq5099
  5. Flores, B.M., Montoya, E., Sakschewski, B. et al. (incl. ter Steege) Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system. Nature 626, 555–564 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06970-0
  6. Gouda, E.J. (2024) A new species of Pitcairnia from the West Cordillera of the Andes of Colombia. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 73(3): 110-115. 
  7. Monique de Jager, Nelleke H. Buitendijk, J.N.(Yannick) Wiegers, J. (Hans) M. Baveco, Bart A. Nolet. More management, less damage? With increasing population size, economic costs of managing geese to minimize yield losses may outweigh benefits, Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 351, 2024, 119949, ISSN 0301-4797, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119949.
  8. Gouda, E.J. (2024) A New Variety of Tillandsia capillaris from Bolivia: Tillandsia capillaris var. attenuatisepala. Die Bromelie 2024(1): 38-42. http://bromeliad.nl/getLiterature.php?WaWQ9NTIzMw==
  9. Gouda, E.J.; Koopmans, R. (2024) Tillandsia cyanea (A.Dietr.) É.Morren (= T. guatemalensis) – A Comparison with T. excelsa, T. selleana, T. cauliflora and Others. Die Bromelie 2024(1): 43-52. http://bromeliad.nl/getLiterature.php?TaWQ9NTIzNA==
  10. Gouda, E.J. (2024) Tillandsia × complanea – A New Natural Hybrid of T. complanata and T. cyanea (A.Dietr.) É.Morren (= T. guatemalensis) from Costa Rica. Die Bromelie 2024(1): 53-57. http://bromeliad.nl/getLiterature.php?KaWQ9NTIzNQ==
  11. Gouda, E.J. (2024) New Bromeliaceae species and names published in 2022 - Part 1-3. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 73(2): 76-93 + 73(3): 134-141 + 73(4): 181-188 (part 1 published in 2023)
  12. Glasnović, P., Fantinato, E., Buffa, G., Carapeto, A., Dragićević, S., Fišer, Z., Kiehn, M., Kull, T., Klisz, M., Liu, U., Lužnik, M., Metzing, D., Stefanaki, A. & Lončarević, N. (2024). Assessing the national red lists of European vascular plants: Disparities and implications, Biological Conservation, 293:110568, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110568.
  13. Boali, A., Asgari, H. R., Behbahani, A. M., Salmanmahiny, A., & Naimi, B. (2024). Remotely sensed desertification modeling using ensemble of machine learning algorithms. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 34, 101149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101149 
  14. Amindin, A., Pourghasemi, H. R., Safaeian, R., Rahmanian, S., Tiefenbacher, J. P., & Naimi, B. (2024). Predicting Current and Future Habitat Suitability of an Endemic Species Using Data-Fusion Approach: Responses to Climate Change. Rangeland Ecology & Management, 94, 149-162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2024.03.002
  15. Mo, L., Zohner, C.M., Reich, P.B. et al. (incl. ter Steege) terIntegrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential. Nature 624, 92–101 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06723-z
  16. Luize, Bruno Garcia, et al. (incl. ter Steege) "Geography and ecology shape the phylogenetic composition of Amazonian tree communities." Journal of Biogeography (2024). https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14816
  17. Householder, J.E., Wittmann, F., Schöngart, J. et al. (incl. ter Steege) One sixth of Amazonian tree diversity is dependent on river floodplains. Nat Ecol Evol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02364-1
  18. Eggli, U., Griebeler, A., Stefanaki, A., Cronier, M., & Ahl, L. I. I. (2024). Flowers of Aloe vera from Medieval manuscripts to Renaissance printed books. Aldrovandiana. Historical Studies in Natural History, 3(1), 151-185.
  19. Taheri, Shirin, Babak Naimi, and Miguel B. Araújo. "climetrics: An R package to quantify multiple dimensions of climate change." Ecography (2024): e07176.
  20. Archambault, Daniel, Roger Beecham, Andrew Gelman, Jessica Hullman, and Edwin Pos. 2024. “Some Risks and Opportunities of Automated Data Analysis.” June 25, 2024. https://theory4ida.github.io/tmcf/posts/01-models/.
  21. Li, X., Naimi, B., Gong, P., & Araujo, M. B. (2024). Data error propagation in stacked bioclimatic envelope models. Integrative Zoology, 19(2), 262-276. https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12736
  22. Boali, H., Asgari, H., Mohammadian Behbahani, A., Salmanmahiny, A., & Naimi, B. (2024). Monitoring and investigation of wind erosion warning areas in the northwest of Golestan Province (Case study: Aq Qala and Gomishan Cities). Water and Soil Management and Modelling, 4(2), 343-356. https://doi.org/10.22098/MMWS.2023.13540.1348
  23. Senbeta, A. F., Worku, W., Gayler, S., & Naimi, B. (2024). Unveiling Wheat’s Future Amidst Climate Change in the Central Ethiopia Region. Agriculture, 14(8), 1408. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14081408 
  24. González-Trujillo, J. D., Naimi, B., Assis, J., & Araújo, M. B. (2024). Reshuffling of Azorean Coastal Marine Biodiversity Amid Climate Change. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15008
  25. Hautier Y, Barry K, Hefting M, van Kuijk M, Pos E, Verduyn B, Johannes R, Kowalchuk G, Soons M (2024) The Biodiversity and Climate Variability Experiment (BioCliVE): Quantifying the role of biodiversity in buffering ecosystems against climatic variability. Research Ideas and Outcomes 10: e133454. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e133454
  26. Lončarević, N., Liu, U., Stefanaki, A. et al. Database of European vascular plants red lists as a contribution to more coherent plant conservation. Sci Data 11, 1138 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03963-0
  27. Geertsma, Isabela Pombo, et al. "Why are plants named after witches and devils in north-western Europe?." Journal of Ethnopharmacology 325 (2024): 117804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2024.117804
  28. Pombo Geertsma, Isabela, et al. "Commercialized “Smudge Sticks” Used as Incense in the Netherlands: An Inventory of Plants and Trends Behind a New Age Fashion." Plants 13.21 (2024): 3003. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13213003
  29. Gouda, E.J. (2024) Pitcairnia asmussii (Bromeliaceae), a new species form Venezuela, close to P. xanthocalyx Mart. Phytotaxa 671(2): 139–143.
    http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.671.2.3
  30. Mo, Lidong, et al. (incl. H. ter Steege) "The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks." Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02564-9
  31. Bialic-Murphy, Lalasia, et al. (incl. H. ter Steege) "The pace of life for forest trees." Science 386.6717 (2024): 92-98. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk9616
  32. Luize, Bruno Garcia, et al. (incl. H. ter Steege) "The biogeography of the Amazonian tree flora." Communications biology 7.1 (2024): 1240. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06937-5
  33. Araújo, Miguel B., et al. (incl. B. Naimi)  "Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments." Science advances 5.1 (2019): eaat4858. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07346
  34. Wijburg, S.R., de Cock, M.P., Raaijmakers, E.F. et al. (incl. M. de Jager) The interplay between urban greenspace, cats and the occurrence of rats and mice in private gardens in the Netherlands. Urban Ecosyst 28, 1–14 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-024-01645-8
  35. Fortes, Elenice A., et al. (incl. H. ter Steege) "Nuclear phylogenomics of Eperua (Leguminosae) highlights the role of habitat and morphological lability in dispersal and diversification across Amazonia and in the Caatinga-Cerrado ecotone." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2024): 108236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108236
  36. Gouda, E.J. Confusion about Pitcairnia aphelandriflora Lem. and a new well known related species. Phytotaxa 675(2): 115–121.
  37. de Jager, Monique, and Edwin T. Pos. "Solving the SLoSS debate: Scale-dependent effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity loss." bioRxiv (2024): 2024-08.

Conference presentations and invited talks in 2024

  1. Stefanaki A, Tsolaki A, van Andel T. 2024. Searching for the plants of Dioscorides in 16th-century herbaria, 18th Panhellenic scientific conference              of the Hellenic Botanical Society, 2-5 October, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  2. Stefanaki A, Smith C. 2024. Conservation of the Greek Flora in the Rock Garden of the Utrecht University Botanic Gardens, 18thPanhellenic scientific conference of the Hellenic Botanical Society, 2-5 October, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  3. Tsolaki A, van Andel T, Stefanaki A . 2024. Exploring Dioscorides’ Legacy: Tracing Lamiaceae in 16th-century Herbaria to Illuminate Modern Perspectives, 18th Panhellenic scientific conference of the Hellenic Botanical Society, 2-5 October, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  4. Geertsma, Isabela Pombo. Invited talk at the Clusius association, 15th of October. http://www.clusiusstichting.nl/index.php/verslag-lezing-isabela-pombo-g…

Published in 2023

  1. Bouchard, E., et al. (incl. ter Steege, H.) (2023) Global patterns and environmental drivers of forest functional composition. Global Ecology and Biogeography. DOI: 10.1111/geb.13790  
  2. Ebrahimi, E., Araújo, M. B., & Naimi, B. (2023). Flood susceptibility mapping to improve models of species distributions. Ecological Indicators, 157, 111250.
  3. Vinicius Peripato et al. (incl. ter Steege, H.), More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia.Science 382,103-109(2023).DOI:10.1126/science.ade2541
  4. Mo et al (incl. ter Steege, H.). (2023) Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06723-z 
  5. ter Steege, H. et al. (incl. Pos, E.T.) (2023) Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora. Communications Biology. 6: 1130. https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05514-6
  6. ter Steege, H. et al. (incl. Pos, E.T.) (2023). Mapping density, diversity and species-richness of the Amazon tree flora. figshare. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22786166.v1
  7. Ma, Haozhi, et al. (including H. ter Steege) "The global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit." Nature Plants (2023): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01543-5
  8. Herrera-Alvarez, X., Blanco, J.A., Phillips, O.L., Guadalupe, V., Ortega-López, L.D., ter Steege, H. & Rivas-Torres, G. (2023) MADERA: A standardized Pan-Amazonian dataset for tropical timber species Ecology. 104: e4135. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4135
  9. Herrera-Alvarez, X., Blanco, J.A., Phillips, O.L., Guadalupe, V., Ortega-López, L.D., ter Steege, H. & Rivas-Torres, G. (2023) First-ever complete list of Amazonian timber tree species. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. DOI: 10.1002/bes2.2104
  10. Carvalho, Raquel L., et al. (including H. ter Steege) Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research. Current Biology 33.16 (2023): 3495-3504.
  11. Fortes. E., Dos Reis, I.P., ter Steege, H., Aymard, G., Secco, R.S., Martins-Da-Silva, R.C.V.  & Mansano, V.F. (2023). A taxonomic revision of the genus Eperua Aubl. (Leguminosae, Detarioideae, Detarieae). Phytotaxa 671: 1-127. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.617.1.1
  12. ter Steege, H., Fortes, E.A., Rozendaal, D.M.A., Erkens, R.H.J., Sabatier, D., Aymard, G., Duijm, E., Eurlings, M., Grewe, F., Pombo, M.M., Gomes, V.F., Mansano, V.F. & Oliveira, S.M. (2023) Molecular phylogeny and evolution of inflorescence types in Eperua. American Journal of Botany. DOI:10.1002/ajb2.16229
  13. Gouda, E.J. (2023) Guzmania bismarckii Rauh vs. Guzmania lindenii (André) Mez – Part II a new species and variety. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 72(4): 155-164.
  14. Gouda, E.J. (2023) Tillandsia kautskyi, one of the red Brazilians. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 73(1): 8-9.
  15. Gouda, E.J. (2023) New Bromeliaceae species and names published in 2022. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 73(2): 76-93.
  16. Gouda, E.J. & P. Bak (2023) Introducing Navia phelpsiae. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 72(2): 69-73.
  17. Aronne, Giovanna, et al. (including A. Stefanaki)"Identifying bottlenecks in the life cycle of plants living on cliffs and rocky slopes: Lack of knowledge hinders conservation actions. Biological Conservation 286 (2023): 110289.
  18. Bennett, A.C. et al. (including H. ter Steege) Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly. Nat. Clim. Chang. 13, 967–974 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01776-4
  19. Wilfahrt, P. A. et al. (including Pos, E.T.) (2023).  Nothing lasts forever: Dominant species decline under rapid environmental change in global grasslands. Journal of Ecology,  111, 2472–2482. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14198
  20. Delavaux, C. S. et al., (including H. ter Steege), Crowther, T. W., Zohner, C. M., Robmann, N. M., Lauber, T., van den Hoogen, J.,  & Parthasarathy, N. (2023). Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions. Nature, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06440-7
  21. Manzanares, J.M. & Gouda, E.J. (2023) A New Species of Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) from Ecuador IV. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 72(3): 5-15.
  22. de Jager M, Buitendijk NH, Baveco JM, van Els P, Nolet BA. Limiting scaring activities reduces economic costs associated with foraging barnacle geese: Results from an individual‐based model. Journal of Applied Ecology. 2023 Jun 29.
  23. Vera-Paz, S.I., Granados Mendoza, C., Díaz Contreras Díaz, D.D., Jost, M., Salazar, G.A., Rossado, A.J., Montes-Azcué, C.A., Hernández-Gutiérrez, R., Magallon, S., Sánchez-González, L.A. and Gouda, E.J., Plastome phylogenomics reveals an early Pliocene North-and Central America colonization by long-distance dispersal from South America of a highly diverse bromeliad lineage. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14, p.1205511.
  24. de Jager M, Soons M. Critical transitions and evolutionary hysteresis in movement: Habitat fragmentation can cause abrupt shifts in dispersal that are difficult to revert. Ecology and Evolution. 2023 May;13(5):e10147.
  25. Gouda, E.J. (2023) Notes on Tillandsia pedicellata. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 72(2): 81.
  26. Pos, E., de Souza Coelho, L., de Andrade Lima Filho, D., Salomão, R. P., Amaral, I. L., de Almeida Matos, F. D., Castilho, C. V., Phillips, O. L., Guevara, J. E., de Jesus Veiga Carim, M., López, D. C., Magnusson, W. E., Wittmann, F., Irume, M. V., Martins, M. P., Sabatier, D., da Silva Guimarães, J. R., Molino, J. F., Bánki, O. S., ... Ter Steege, H. (2023). Unraveling Amazon tree community assembly using Maximum Information Entropy: a quantitative analysis of tropical forest ecology. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 2859. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28132-y
  27. Gouda, E.J. & P. Bak (2023) A new Tillandsia species from Honduras, related to the widespread T. variabilis. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 72(4): 150-154.
  28. Gouda, E.J.; Kent, J. (2023) A new Guzmania species from from Antioquia, Colombia. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 73(1): 24-29.
  29. Arellano-Peña, H., et al. (including H. ter Steege) "The Forests of the Upper Rio Negro (North-Western Amazon) and Adjacent South-Western Orinoco Basins: A Phytosociological Classification." Psammic Peinobiomes: Nutrient-Limited Ecosystems of the Upper Orinoco and Rio Negro Basins. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. 55-109.

Conference presentations and invited talks in 2023

  1. Hamm, N., Naimi, B., & Groen, T. A. (2023, September). ELSA: an entropy-based local statistic for categorical data. In 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, GIScience 2023.
  2. Stefanaki, A. & van Andel, T. (2023). How to approach the unknown? Elucidating the origins of the 16th-century En Tibi and Rauwolf book herbaria. - XVII OPTIMA Meeting, 20-23 September, Erice, Italy (Invited)
  3. Charitonidou M., Stefanaki A., Lázaro A., Cursach Seguí J., Panitsa M., Bazos I., Kantsa A., Ranalli R., Fois M., Galloni M., Bacchetta G., Castro S., Loureiro J, Goula K., Navarro L., Bou Dagher Kharrat M., Kahale R., Vassiliou L., Aronne G., Fišer Z., Petanidou T. (2023). Does floral complexity draw on plant vulnerability? Lessons from the Mediterranean region using Red Data Books. - HELECOS 11, 11th Panhellenic Ecology Conference, 4-7 October, Patras, Greece.
  4. Geertsma, Isabela Pombo. Invited talk at the library of Deventer. https://www.bibliotheekdeventer.nl/athenaeumbibliotheek/nieuwsuitdeathe… 

Published in 2022

  1. Lautenschläger, T., Göhre, A., Ditsch, B., Baumgärtel, C., Monizi, M., Mandombe, J.L., Lehnert, M., Jongkind, C.C., Persoon, H.J., Cheek, M. and Monro, A., 2022. Sixty-seven species newly recorded for the flora of Angola: recent findings from vegetation surveys and herbarium collections. Check List, 18(6), pp.1203-1230.
  2. Geertsma, Isabela Pombo, Daan van der Hoeven, and Tinde van Andel. "Traditional Aucan knowledge on fish and plants eaten by fish along the Tapanahoni River, Suriname." Ethnobiology and Conservation 11 (2022).
  3. Vera-Paz, S.I., Díaz Contreras Díaz, D.D., Jost, M., Wanke, S., Rossado, A., Hernández-Gutiérrez, R., Salazar, G.A., Magallon, S., Gouda, E.J., Ramírez Morillo, I. and Donadío, S., New Plastome Structural Rearrangements Discovered in Core Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae) Support recently adopted taxonomy. Frontiers in Plant Science, p.2582. (2022)
  4. Quaresma Adriano, Zartman Charles E., Piedade Maria T. F., Wittmann Florian, Jardim Mario A. G., Irume Mariana V., Benavides Ana M., Freitas Leandro, Toledo José J., Boelter Carlos R., Obermüller Flávio, Duque Alvaro J., Klein Viviane P., Mari Maikel L. G., Schöngart Jochen, Arenas Edith, Pos Edwin T., Vasco Alejandra, Ek Renske, Plantenga Faline D. M., Duivenvoorden Joost F., Biesmeijer Koos, Bender Irene M. A., ter Steege Hans The Amazon Epiphyte Network: A first glimpse into continental-scale patterns of Amazonian vascular epiphyte assemblages. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 118. (2022)
  5. Manzanares, J.M.; Gouda, E.J. & Till, W. (2022) A New Species of Guzmania (Bromeliaceae) from Ecuador. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 71(4): 225-236
  6. Gouda, E.J. (2022) A new large Guzmania species from Colombia already known for a long time. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 71(4): 213-220.
  7. Gouda, E.J. (2022) A New Species from the Alliance of Racinaea spiculosa from Peru: Racinaea attenuatipetala. Die Bromelie 2022(1): 37-42.
  8. Steur, G., ter Steege, H., Verburg, R.W. et al. Relationships between species richness and ecosystem services in Amazonian forests strongly influenced by biogeographical strata and forest types. Sci Rep 12, 5960 (2022).