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Tagle Casapia, X., Cardenas-Vigo, R., Marcos, D., Fernández Gamarra, E., Bartholomeus, H., Honorio Coronado, E. N., ... Draper F.C., …et al. 2025. Effective integration of drone technology for mapping and managing palm species in the Peruvian Amazon. Nature communications, 16(1), 3764. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58358-5 

McMichael, C.N., Bush, M.B., Ter Steege, H., Piperno, D.R., Gosling, W.D., Nascimento, M.N., Lombardo, U., de Souza Coelho, L., Leão do Amaral, I., de Almeida Matos, F.D. … Draper F.C. … et al. , 2025. Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(47), p.e2514040122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2514040122 

Winton, R. S., Benavides, J. C., Mendoza, E., Uhde, A., Hastie, A., Coronado, E. N. H., ... Draper F.C., …et al. 2025. Widespread carbon-dense peatlands in the Colombian lowlands. Environmental Research Letters, 20(5), 054025. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/adbc03 

Coronado, E. N. H., Rios, J. G., Pasquel, J. del Á., Llampazo, G. F., Oroche, C. J. C., Huaymacari, J. R., Pizango, C. G. H., Alvarado, L. F. ... Draper F.C., … et al.. (2025). Long-term interventions by conservation and development projects support successful recovery of tropical peatlands in Amazonia. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.70024 

Ter Steege, H., Poorter, L., Aguirre-Gutiérrez, J., Fortunel, C., Magnusson, W. E., Phillips, O. L., ... Draper F.C., … et al.. (2025). Functional composition of the Amazonian tree flora and forests. Communications Biology, 8(1), 355. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07768-8 

Bogdziewicz, M., Hacket-Pain, A., et al (2025). Solstice, selection, and synchrony of seed masting. PNAS, 122, 34, e2515264122, https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2515264122  
 
Bogdziewicz, M., Kelly, D., Zwolak, R., Szymkowiak, J. Hacket-Pain, A. (2025). Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Consequences of Mast Seeding. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 56, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102723-052948 

Hacket-Pain, A.J., Szymkowiak, J., Journé, V.,et al. (2025). Growth decline in European beech associated with temperature-driven increase in reproductive allocation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (5), e2423181122, https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2423181122   

Peacock, M., Futter, M.N., Lidberg, W., Lundblad, M. and Geranmayeh, P., 2025. An upscaling of methane emissions from Swedish flooded land. Carbon Management, 16(1), p.2445254. 

Clifford, C., Bieroza, M., Clarke, S.J., Pickard, A., Stratigos, M.J., Hill, M.J., Raheem, N., Tatariw, C., Wood, P.J., Arismendi, I., Audet, J...Peacock, M. 2025. Lines in the landscape. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1), p.693.  

Foest, J. J., Bogdziewicz, M., Pesendorfer, M. B., Ascoli, D., Cutini, A., Nussbaumer, A., Verstraeten, A., Beudert, B., Chianucci, F., Mezzavilla, F., Gratzer, G., Kunstler, G., Meesenburg, H., Wagner, M., Mund, M., Cools, N., Vacek, S., Schmidt, W., Vacek, Z., & Hacket-Pain, A. (2024). Widespread breakdown in masting in European beech due to rising summer temperatures. Global Change Biology, 30, e17307. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17307 

Journé, V., Szymkowiak, J., Foest, J. Hacket-Pain, A., Kelly, D. & Bogdziewicz, M. Summer solstice orchestrates the subcontinental-scale synchrony of mast seeding. Nature Plants 10, 367–373 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01651-w 

Bogdziewicz, M, Kelly, D., Ascoli, D.... and Hacket-Pain, A. 2024. Evolutionary ecology of masting: mechanisms, models, and climate change. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 39, 9, 851 – 862  

Szymkowiak, J., Foest, J., Hacket-Pain, A., Journé, V., Ascoli, D. & Bogdziewicz, M. (2024) Tail-dependence of masting synchrony results in continent-wide seed scarcity. Ecology Letters, 27, e14474. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14474 

Leifsson, Buras, Klesse, et al. [inc. Hacket-Pain]. 2024. Identifying drivers of non-stationary climate-growth relationships of European beech, Science of The Total Environment, 937, 173321, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173321  

Sanchez‐Martinez, P., Dexter, K. G., Draper, F. C., Baraloto, C., Leão do Amaral, I., de Souza Coelho, L., ... & Balee, W. 2024. Phylogenetic conservatism in the relationship between functional and demographic characteristics in Amazon tree taxa. Functional Ecology. 

Bialic-Murphy, L., McElderry, R. M., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., van den Hoogen, J., Zuidema, P. A., Phillips, O. L., ... Draper F.C. … et al. 2024. The pace of life for forest trees. Science, 386(6717), 92-98.. 

Matas-Granados, L. Draper, F.C., Cayuela L., de Aledo J.G., Arellano G., Ben-Saadi, C., Baker, T.R., Phillips O.L., Honorio Coronado, E.N., Ruokolainen, K. et al. 2024. Understanding different dominance patterns in western Amazonian forests. Ecology Letters 27(1), e14351. 

Cooper, D.L.M., Lewis, S.L., Sullivan, M.J.P., Prado, P.I., ter Steege, H., Barbier, N., Slik, J.W.F., Sonke, B., Ewango, C.E.N., Adu-Bredu, S., Affum-Baffoe, K., …Draper, F.C. …et al. 2024. Consistent Patterns of Common Species Across Tropical Forest Tree Communities. Nature 625(7996), 728-734. 

Peacock, M., Lawson, C., Gowing, D. and Gauci, V., 2024. Water table depth and plant species determine the direction and magnitude of methane fluxes in floodplain meadow soils. Ecology and Evolution, 14(3), p.e11147.  

Davidson, S.J., Davies, M.A., Wegener, E., Claussen, S., Schmidt, M., Peacock, M. and Strack, M., 2024. Carbon stocks and fluxes from a boreal conifer swamp: Filling a knowledge gap for understanding the boreal C cycle. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 129(5), p.e2024JG008005.  

Grants  

Swedish Geological Survey. 2024-2027. Exploring greenhouse gas emissions in wetlands: rewetted organic soils vs constructed agricultural ponds. £430,000 (£45,000 to UoL). Peacock coI. 

Royal Society. Research Grant (2023-2025) £69,900. High-resolution airborne spectroscopy for quantifying climate-induced ecosystem changes (PI F. Draper). 

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkins fellowship (2025-2032) – £1.83M. Tropical Mountains as Contemporary Climate Refugia (PI B. Fadrique) 

Defra. 2024-2027. Lowland Peat Project 3. The options, feasibility and impact of managing lowland peat for reduced greenhouse gas emissions. £5 million, £150K to UoL. Peacock CoI.