Publications

Publications from the Maitner Lab at the University of South Florida – St. Petersburg: peer-reviewed papers, preprints, R packages, and datasets on biodiversity, plant traits, macroecology, conservation, and Open Science.

Lab members’ publications, drawn from Brian Maitner’s ORCID record. Current lab members are shown in bold. See also Google Scholar.

Journal articles

2026

  • Serra-Diaz JM, Andrews LC, Schwarz Meyer A, Carlson BS, Maitner B, Pinilla-Buitrago GE, et al. (2026). A global early warning system for predicting exposure of biodiversity to extreme heat. Nature Climate Change 16(7): 828–835. doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02642-9

  • Enquist BJ, Boyle B, Maitner BS, Merow C, Carlson BS, Feng X, …, Pillet M, et al. (2026). BIEN : A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 17(5): 1556–1584. doi:10.1111/2041-210x.70274

  • Maitner BS, Richards RL, Carlson BS, Drake JM, Merow C (2026). Flexible methods for species distribution modeling with small samples. Ecography 2026(2). doi:10.1002/ecog.08112

  • Guo WY, Serra-Diaz JM, Guo K, Boonman CCF, Schrodt F, Maitner BS, et al. (2026). Global functional shifts in trees driven by alien naturalization and native extinction. Nature Plants 12(2): 308–318. doi:10.1038/s41477-025-02207-2

  • Trepel J, Buitenwerf R, Ferraro K, le Roux E, Lundgren E, Maitner B, et al. (2026). Reevaluating introduced herbivores in conservation. Conservation Biology 40(5). doi:10.1111/cobi.70328

2025

  • Hordijk I, Poorter L, Liang J, Reich PB, de-Miguel S, Nabuurs GJ, …, Maitner B, et al. (2025). Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests. Nature Communications 16(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-025-59754-7

  • Halbritter AH, Atkinson J, Maré C, Ahler SJ, Andersen EAS, Bradler PM, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2025). Effects of Warming, Nitrogen and Grazing on Plant Functional Traits Differ Between Alpine and Sub‐Alpine Grasslands. Journal of Vegetation Science 36(5). doi:10.1111/jvs.70061

  • Moulatlet GM, Merow C, Maitner B, Boyle B, Feng X, Frazier AE, et al. (2025). General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(46). doi:10.1073/pnas.2517585122

  • Araujo DSA, Enquist BJ, Frazier AE, Merow C, Roehrdanz PR, Moulatlet GM, …, Maitner B, et al. (2025). Global Future Drought Layers Based on Downscaled CMIP6 Models and Multiple Socioeconomic Pathways. Scientific Data 12(1). doi:10.1038/s41597-025-04612-w

  • Boonman CCF, Hoeks S, Serra-Diaz JM, Guo WY, Enquist BJ, Maitner B, Merow C, Svenning JC (2025). High tree diversity exposed to unprecedented macroclimatic conditions even under minimal anthropogenic climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(26). doi:10.1073/pnas.2420059122

  • Merow C, Maitner BS, Schwarz Meyer A, Pigot AL, Serra-Diaz JM, Urban MC (2025). Hottest year in recorded history compounds global biodiversity risks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(35). doi:10.1073/pnas.2504945122

  • Erkelenz J, Geange SR, Atkinson J, Anderson E, Correia M, Ahler SJ, …, Maitner B, et al. (2025). Intraspecific Functional Trait Responses to Experimental Warming Vary With Precipitation and Growth Form. Journal of Vegetation Science 36(6). doi:10.1111/jvs.70098

  • Roos RE, Kemppinen J, Niittynen P, Vandvik V, Althuizen I, Eidesen PB, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2025). Marine‐derived nutrients shape the functional composition of High Arctic plant communities. Functional Ecology 39(6): 1606–1621. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.70056

  • Halbritter AH, Vandvik V, Bison NN, Clark VR, Cross M, Greve M, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2025). Plant traits and associated ecological data from Afromontane grasslands of Maloti-Drakensberg, South Africa. Scientific Data 12(1). doi:10.1038/s41597-025-06045-x

  • Vandvik V, Halbritter AH, Macias-Fauria M, Maitner BS, Michaletz ST, Telford RJ, et al. (2025). Plant traits and associated ecological data from global change experiments and climate gradients in Norway. Scientific Data 12(1). doi:10.1038/s41597-025-05509-4

  • Cui D, Frazier AE, Liang S, Roehrdanz PR, Hurtt GC, Zhu Z, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2025). Projected climate zone shifts could undermine the effectiveness of global protected areas for biodiversity conservation by mid-to-late century. Global Environmental Change Advances 5: 100017. doi:10.1016/j.gecadv.2025.100017

  • Feng X, Smith AB, Boyle B, Chen X, Enquist BJ, Gallagher R, …, Maitner B, et al. (2025). The next stage of biodiversity informatics: community-driven synthesis and integration of biodiversity databases. BioScience 75(11): 913–925. doi:10.1093/biosci/biaf112

2024

  • Maitner B, Santos Andrade PE, Lei L, Kass J, Owens HL, Barbosa GCG, et al. (2024). Code sharing in ecology and evolution increases citation rates but remains uncommon. Ecology and Evolution 14(8). doi:10.1002/ece3.70030

  • Hordijk I, Bialic‐Murphy L, Lauber T, Routh D, Poorter L, Rivers MC, …, Maitner B, et al. (2024). Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(10). doi:10.1111/geb.13889

  • Bouchard E, Searle EB, Drapeau P, Liang J, Gamarra JGP, Abegg M, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2024). Global patterns and environmental drivers of forest functional composition. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(2): 303–324. doi:10.1111/geb.13790

  • Boonman CCF, Serra-Diaz JM, Hoeks S, Guo WY, Enquist BJ, Maitner B, et al. (2024). More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change. Nature Communications 15(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-023-44321-9

  • Serra‐Diaz JM, Borderieux J, Maitner B, Boonman CCF, Park D, Guo W, et al. (2024). occTest: An integrated approach for quality control of species occurrence data. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(7). doi:10.1111/geb.13847

  • Halbritter AH, Vandvik V, Cotner SH, Farfan-Rios W, Maitner BS, Michaletz ST, et al. (2024). Plant trait and vegetation data along a 1314 m elevation gradient with fire history in Puna grasslands, Perú. Scientific Data 11(1). doi:10.1038/s41597-024-02980-3

  • Zou Y, Zohner CM, Averill C, Ma H, Merder J, Berdugo M, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2024). Positive feedbacks and alternative stable states in forest leaf types. Nature Communications 15(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-024-48676-5

  • Mo L, Crowther TW, Maynard DS, van den Hoogen J, Ma H, Bialic-Murphy L, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2024). The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8(12): 2195–2212. doi:10.1038/s41559-024-02564-9

  • Gonçalves‐Souza T, Milz B, Sanders NJ, Reich PB, Maitner B, Chaves LS, et al. (2024). ZooTraits: An R shiny app for exploring animal trait data for ecological and evolutionary research. Ecology and Evolution 14(5). doi:10.1002/ece3.11334

2023

  • Maitner B, Gallagher R, Svenning J, Tietje M, Wenk EH, Eiserhardt WL (2023). A global assessment of the Raunkiæran shortfall in plants: geographic biases in our knowledge of plant traits. New Phytologist 240(4): 1345–1354. doi:10.1111/nph.18999

  • Merow C, Boyle B, Enquist BJ, Feng X, Kass JM, Maitner BS, et al. (2023). Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7(5): 626–627. doi:10.1038/s41559-023-02008-w

  • Maitner BS, Halbritter AH, Telford RJ, Strydom T, Chacon J, Lamanna C, et al. (2023). Bootstrapping outperforms community‐weighted approaches for estimating the shapes of phenotypic distributions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14(10): 2592–2610. doi:10.1111/2041-210x.14160

  • Guo WY, Serra-Diaz JM, Eiserhardt WL, Maitner BS, Merow C, Violle C, et al. (2023). Climate change and land use threaten global hotspots of phylogenetic endemism for trees. Nature Communications 14(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-023-42671-y

  • Hordijk I, Maynard DS, Hart SP, Lidong M, ter Steege H, Liang J, …, Maitner B, et al. (2023). Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness. Journal of Ecology 111(6): 1308–1326. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.14098

  • Xu WB, Guo WY, Serra-Diaz JM, Schrodt F, Eiserhardt WL, Enquist BJ, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2023). Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change. Science Advances 9(14). doi:10.1126/sciadv.add8553

  • Gallagher RV, Allen SP, Govaerts R, Rivers MC, Allen AP, Keith DA, …, Maitner B, et al. (2023). Global shortfalls in threat assessments for endemic flora by country. PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET 5(6): 885–898. doi:10.1002/ppp3.10369

  • Mo L, Zohner CM, Reich PB, Liang J, de Miguel S, Nabuurs GJ, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2023). Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential. Nature 624(7990): 92–101. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06723-z

  • Jónsdóttir IS, Halbritter AH, Christiansen CT, Althuizen IHJ, Haugum SV, Henn JJ, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2023). Intraspecific trait variability is a key feature underlying high Arctic plant community resistance to climate warming. Ecological Monographs 93(1). doi:10.1002/ecm.1555

  • Cutts V, Hanz DM, Barajas‐Barbosa MP, Schrodt F, Steinbauer MJ, Beierkuhnlein C, …, Maitner B, et al. (2023). Links to rare climates do not translate into distinct traits for island endemics. Ecology Letters 26(4): 504–515. doi:10.1111/ele.14169

  • Delavaux CS, Crowther TW, Zohner CM, Robmann NM, Lauber T, van den Hoogen J, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2023). Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions. Nature 621(7980): 773–781. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06440-7

  • Vandvik V, Halbritter AH, Althuizen IHJ, Christiansen CT, Henn JJ, Jónsdóttir IS, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2023). Plant traits and associated data from a warming experiment, a seabird colony, and along elevation in Svalbard. Scientific Data 10(1). doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02467-7

  • Slingsby JA, Wilson AM, Maitner B, Moncrieff GR (2023). Regional ecological forecasting across scales: A manifesto for a biodiversity hotspot. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14(3): 757–770. doi:10.1111/2041-210x.14046

  • Keller A, Ankenbrand MJ, Bruelheide H, Dekeyzer S, Enquist BJ, Erfanian MB, …, Maitner B, et al. (2023). Ten (mostly) simple rules to future‐proof trait data in ecological and evolutionary sciences. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14(2): 444–458. doi:10.1111/2041-210x.14033

  • Ma H, Crowther TW, Mo L, Maynard DS, Renner SS, van den Hoogen J, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2023). The global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit. Nature Plants 9(11): 1795–1809. doi:10.1038/s41477-023-01543-5

  • Kass JM, Pinilla‐Buitrago GE, Paz A, Johnson BA, Grisales‐Betancur V, Meenan SI, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2023). wallace 2: a shiny app for modeling species niches and distributions redesigned to facilitate expansion via module contributions. Ecography 2023(3). doi:10.1111/ecog.06547

2022

  • Feng X, Enquist BJ, Park DS, Boyle B, Breshears DD, Gallagher RV, …, Maitner BS, …, Pillet M, et al. (2022). A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base. Global Ecology and Biogeography 31(7): 1242–1260. doi:10.1111/geb.13497

  • Maitner BS, Park DS, Enquist BJ, Dlugosch KM (2022). Both source‐ and recipient‐range phylogenetic community structure can predict the outcome of avian introductions. Ecography 2022(2). doi:10.1111/ecog.05934

  • Liang J, Gamarra JGP, Picard N, Zhou M, Pijanowski B, Jacobs DF, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2022). Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6(10): 1423–1437. doi:10.1038/s41559-022-01831-x

  • Pillet M, Goettsch B, Merow C, Maitner B, Feng X, Roehrdanz PR, Enquist BJ (2022). Elevated extinction risk of cacti under climate change. Nature Plants 8(4): 366–372. doi:10.1038/s41477-022-01130-0

  • Ma Y, Hu Y, Moncrieff GR, Slingsby JA, Wilson AM, Maitner B, Zhenqi Zhou R (2022). Forecasting vegetation dynamics in an open ecosystem by integrating deep learning and environmental variables. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 114: 103060. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2022.103060

  • Boyle BL, Maitner BS, Barbosa GGC, Sajja RK, Feng X, Merow C, et al. (2022). Geographic name resolution service: A tool for the standardization and indexing of world political division names, with applications to species distribution modeling. PLOS ONE 17(11): e0268162. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0268162

  • Guo WY, Serra-Diaz JM, Schrodt F, Eiserhardt WL, Maitner BS, Merow C, et al. (2022). High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(25). doi:10.1073/pnas.2026733119

  • Cazzolla Gatti R, Reich PB, Gamarra JGP, Crowther T, Hui C, Morera A, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2022). The number of tree species on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(6). doi:10.1073/pnas.2115329119

  • Maitner BS, Park DS, Enquist BJ, Dlugosch KM (2022). Where we’ve been and where we’re going: the importance of source communities in predicting establishment success from phylogenetic relationships. Ecography 2022(6). doi:10.1111/ecog.05406

2021

  • Jung M, Arnell A, de Lamo X, García-Rangel S, Lewis M, Mark J, …, Maitner B, et al. (2021). Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5(11): 1499–1509. doi:10.1038/s41559-021-01528-7

  • Kemppinen J, Niittynen P, le Roux PC, Momberg M, Happonen K, Aalto J, …, Maitner B, et al. (2021). Consistent trait–environment relationships within and across tundra plant communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5(4): 458–467. doi:10.1038/s41559-021-01396-1

  • Gallagher RV, Allen S, Mackenzie BDE, Yates CJ, Gosper CR, Keith DA, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2021). High fire frequency and the impact of the 2019–2020 megafires on Australian plant diversity. Diversity and Distributions 27(7): 1166–1179. doi:10.1111/ddi.13265

  • Feng X, Merow C, Liu Z, Park DS, Roehrdanz PR, Maitner B, et al. (2021). How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity. Nature 597(7877): 516–521. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03876-7

  • Urban MC, Merow C, Wegrzyn JL, Maitner BS, Corcoran D (2021). How to Publish at Pandemic Speed. BioScience 71(10): 1001–1003. doi:10.1093/biosci/biab084

  • Flower C, Hodgson WC, Salywon AM, Maitner BS, Enquist BJ, Peeples MA, Blonder B (2021). Human food use increases plant geographical ranges in the Sonoran Desert. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30(7): 1461–1473. doi:10.1111/geb.13311

  • Thomson ER, Spiegel MP, Althuizen IHJ, Bass P, Chen S, Chmurzynski A, …, Maitner BS, et al. (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. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/abf464

  • Geange SR, von Oppen J, Strydom T, Boakye M, Gauthier TJ, Gya R, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2021). Next‐generation field courses: Integrating Open Science and online learning. Ecology and Evolution 11(8): 3577–3587. doi:10.1002/ece3.7009

  • Owens HL, Merow C, Maitner BS, Kass JM, Barve V, Guralnick RP (2021). occCite: Tools for querying and managing large biodiversity occurrence datasets. Ecography 44(8): 1228–1235. doi:10.1111/ecog.05618

  • Mouillot D, Loiseau N, Grenié M, Algar AC, Allegra M, Cadotte MW, …, Maitner B, et al. (2021). The dimensionality and structure of species trait spaces. Ecology Letters 24(9): 1988–2009. doi:10.1111/ele.13778

2020

  • Hannah L, Roehrdanz PR, Marquet PA, Enquist BJ, Midgley G, Foden W, …, Maitner B, et al. (2020). 30% land conservation and climate action reduces tropical extinction risk by more than 50%. Ecography 43(7): 943–953. doi:10.1111/ecog.05166

  • Park DS, Feng X, Maitner BS, Ernst KC, Enquist BJ (2020). Darwin’s naturalization conundrum can be explained by spatial scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(20): 10904–10910. doi:10.1073/pnas.1918100117

  • Loiseau N, Mouquet N, Casajus N, Grenié M, Guéguen M, Maitner B, et al. (2020). Global distribution and conservation status of ecologically rare mammal and bird species. Nature Communications 11(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18779-w

  • Li Y, Reich PB, Schmid B, Shrestha N, Feng X, Lyu T, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2020). Leaf size of woody dicots predicts ecosystem primary productivity. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.. doi:10.5167/uzh-188329

  • Gallagher RV, Falster DS, Maitner BS, Salguero-Gómez R, Vandvik V, Pearse WD, et al. (2020). Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4(3): 294–303. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-1109-6

  • Vandvik V, Halbritter AH, Yang Y, He H, Zhang L, Brummer AB, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2020). Plant traits and vegetation data from climate warming experiments along an 1100 m elevation gradient in Gongga Mountains, China. Scientific Data 7(1). doi:10.1038/s41597-020-0529-0

2019

  • GFBI consortium, Steidinger BS, Crowther TW, Liang J, Van Nuland ME, Werner GDA, et al. (2019). Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses. Nature 569(7756): 404–408. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1128-0

  • Durán SM, Martin RE, Díaz S, Maitner BS, Malhi Y, Salinas N, et al. (2019). Informing trait-based ecology by assessing remotely sensed functional diversity across a broad tropical temperature gradient. Science Advances 5(12). doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaw8114

  • Grady JM, Maitner BS, Winter AS, Kaschner K, Tittensor DP, Record S, et al. (2019). Metabolic asymmetry and the global diversity of marine predators. Science 363(6425). doi:10.1126/science.aat4220

  • Merow C, Maitner BS, Owens HL, Kass JM, Enquist BJ, Jetz W, Guralnick R (2019). Species’ range model metadata standards: RMMS. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28(12): 1912–1924. doi:10.1111/geb.12993

  • Enquist BJ, Feng X, Boyle B, Maitner B, Newman EA, Jørgensen PM, …, Pillet M, et al. (2019). The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants. Science Advances 5(11). doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaz0414

2018

  • Eiserhardt WL, Antonelli A, Bennett DJ, Botigué LR, Burleigh JG, Dodsworth S, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2018). A roadmap for global synthesis of the plant tree of life. American Journal of Botany 105(3): 614–622. doi:10.1002/ajb2.1041

  • Henn JJ, Buzzard V, Enquist BJ, Halbritter AH, Klanderud K, Maitner BS, et al. (2018). Intraspecific Trait Variation and Phenotypic Plasticity Mediate Alpine Plant Species Response to Climate Change. Frontiers in Plant Science 9. doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.01548

  • Blonder B, Enquist BJ, Graae BJ, Kattge J, Maitner BS, Morueta‐Holme N, et al. (2018). Late Quaternary climate legacies in contemporary plant functional composition. Global Change Biology 24(10): 4827–4840. doi:10.1111/gcb.14375

  • Blonder B, Morrow CB, Maitner B, Harris DJ, Lamanna C, Violle C, Enquist BJ, Kerkhoff AJ (2018). New approaches for delineating n ‐dimensional hypervolumes. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9(2): 305–319. doi:10.1111/2041-210x.12865

  • Echeverría-Londoño S, Enquist BJ, Neves DM, Violle C, Boyle B, Kraft NJB, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2018). Plant Functional Diversity and the Biogeography of Biomes in North and South America. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6. doi:10.3389/fevo.2018.00219

  • Maitner BS, Boyle B, Casler N, Condit R, Donoghue J, Durán SM, et al. (2018). The bien r package: A tool to access the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) database. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9(2): 373–379. doi:10.1111/2041-210x.12861

2017

  • Enquist BJ, Bentley LP, Shenkin A, Maitner B, Savage V, Michaletz S, et al. (2017). Assessing trait‐based scaling theory in tropical forests spanning a broad temperature gradient. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26(12): 1357–1373. doi:10.1111/geb.12645

  • Serra-Diaz JM, Enquist BJ, Maitner B, Merow C, Svenning JC (2017). Big data of tree species distributions: how big and how good?. Forest Ecosystems 4(1). doi:10.1186/s40663-017-0120-0

2015

  • Downey MH, Searle R, Bellur S, Geiger A, Maitner BS, Ohm JR, Tuda M, Miller TEX (2015). A comparative approach to testing hypotheses for the evolution of sex‐biased dispersal in bean beetles. Ecology and Evolution 5(21): 4819–4828. doi:10.1002/ece3.1753

2013

  • Dunham AE, Maitner BS, Razafindratsima OH, Simmons MC, Roy CL (2013). Body size and sexual size dimorphism in primates: influence of climate and net primary productivity. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26(11): 2312–2320. doi:10.1111/jeb.12239

2012

  • Chamberlain SA, Hovick SM, Dibble CJ, Rasmussen NL, Van Allen BG, Maitner BS, et al. (2012). Does phylogeny matter? Assessing the impact of phylogenetic information in ecological meta‐analysis. Ecology Letters 15(6): 627–636. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01776.x

  • Maitner BS, Rudgers JA, Dunham AE, Whitney KD (2012). Patterns of bird invasion are consistent with environmental filtering. Ecography 35(7): 614–623. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.07176.x

Preprints and reports

  • Moulatlet GM, Capparelli MV, Thomas C, Boyle B, Feng X, Frazier AE, …, Maitner B, et al. (2025). Amazon biodiversity is at risk from metal contamination due to mining activity. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2025.05.21.654597

  • Montes-Bojórquez MG, Robles-Zazueta CA, Tinoco-Ojanguren C, Enquist BJ, Frazier AE, Maitner BS, et al. (2025). Challenges and opportunities in detecting leaf water and carotenoid content across biomes from satellite multispectral indices. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2025.11.01.686024

  • Serra-Diaz J, Andrews L, Carlson B, Pinilla-Buitrago GE, Meyer ALS, Pigot A, …, Maitner B, et al. (2025). Early warning system predicts exposure to extreme temperatures in 2024. Research Square. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-6838011/v1

  • Song L, Frazier A, Kedron P, Araujo DSA, Cui D, Enquist B, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2025). Explainable Artificial Intelligence Reveals Spatially Divergent Effects of Global Change on Mammals. Research Square. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-7500921/v1

  • Merow C, Serra-Diaz J, Carlson B, Maitner B, Pinilla-Buitrago G, Trisos C, et al. (2025). Unprecedented heat threatened 1 in 10 vertebrate species in 2023. Research Square. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-4914374/v1

  • Mo L, Crowther T, Maynard D, Hoogen Jvd, Ma H, Bialic-Murphy L, …, Maitner B, et al. (2024). Consistent climatic controls of global wood density among angiosperms and gymnosperms. Research Square. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-3934396/v1

  • Maitner B, Andrade PS, Lei L, Kass J, Owens H, Barbosa G, et al. (2023). Code sharing increases citations but remains uncommon. Authorea. doi:10.22541/au.170003886.68548206/v1

  • Maitner B, Gallagher R, Svenning JC, Tietje M, Wenk EH, Eiserhardt WL (2022). Socioeconomics and biogeography jointly drive geographic biases in our knowledge of plant traits: a global assessment of the Raunkiærian shortfall in plants. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2022.09.26.509556

  • Violle C, Mahaut L, Loiseau N, Algar A, Auber A, Cadotte M, …, Maitner B, et al. (2021). Causes and consequences of functional rarity from local to global scales. FRB-CESAB. doi:10.5281/zenodo.17209573

  • Maitner B, Halbritter A, Telford R, Strydom T, Chacon-Labella J, Lamanna C, et al. (2021). On estimating the shape and dynamics of phenotypic distributions in ecology and evolution. Authorea. doi:10.22541/au.162196147.76797968/v1

  • Roehrdanz P, Hannah L, Corcoran D, Corlett R, Enquist B, Fajardo J, …, Maitner B, et al. (2021). Strategic Conservation of Global Vertebrates in Response to Climate Change. SSRN. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3854499

  • Guo WY, Serra-Diaz JM, Schrodt F, Eiserhardt WL, Maitner BS, Merow C, et al. (2020). Half of the world’s tree biodiversity is unprotected and is increasingly threatened by human activities. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2020.04.21.052464

  • Guo WY, Serra-Diaz JM, Schrodt F, Eiserhardt WL, Maitner BS, Merow C, et al. (2020). Paleoclimate and current climate collectively shape the phylogenetic and functional diversity of trees worldwide. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2020.06.02.128975

  • Xu WB, Guo WY, Serra-Diaz JM, Schrodt F, Eiserhardt WL, Enquist BJ, …, Maitner BS, et al. (2020). Quaternary climate change explains global patterns of tree beta-diversity. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2020.11.14.382846

Software (R packages)

Datasets

  • Maitner B, Richards R, Carlson B, Drake J, Merow C (2025). Data from: Flexible methods for species distribution modeling with small samples. Dryad. doi:10.5061/dryad.0vt4b8hc2

  • Vandvik V, Halbritter A, Geange SR, Enquist BJ, Michaletz S, Labella JMC, …, Maitner B, et al. (2025). PFTC6 - PFTCourses plant functional traits, carbon fluxes, temperatures, and spectral data from climate and global change experiments along climate gradients in Western Norway. OSF. doi:10.17605/osf.io/fcbw4

  • Halbritter A, Vandvik V, Maitner B, Enquist BJ, Michaletz S, Dawson HR, et al. (2025). PFTC7 - PFTCourses plant functional traits, carbon fluxes, temperatures, and spectral data from an elevation gradient and a ITEX warming experiment in the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa. OSF. doi:10.17605/osf.io/hk2cy

  • Vigdis Vandvik, Aud Halbritter, Yan Yang, hai he, li zhang, alex brummer, …, Brian Maitner, et al. (2018). PFTC1 - PFTCourses Elevational Gradient and TransPlant Experiment, Gongga Mountain, China. OSF. doi:10.17605/osf.io/f3knq