Nathan G. Swenson
University of Maryland, College Park
190 Papers
711 Citations
Nathan G. Swenson is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Phylogenetic tree. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 179 publications. Previous affiliations of Nathan G. Swenson include University of Michigan & University of Maryland, Baltimore.
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Papers
Lack of phylogenetic signals within environmental niches of tropical tree species across life stages.
Caicai Zhang,Caicai Zhang,Jie Yang,Liqing Sha,Xiuqin Ci,Xiuqin Ci,Jie Li,Min Cao,Calum Brown,Nathan G. Swenson,Nathan G. Swenson,Luxiang Lin +11 more
TL;DR: Local environmental niches are highly phylogenetically labile for both seedlings and adult trees, with closely related species occupying niches that are no more similar than expected by random chance, suggesting that phylogenetic signals in traits might not be a reliable guide to niche preferences or, therefore, to community assembly processes in some ecosystems, like the tropical seasonal rainforest in this study.
Corrigendum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments
Amy E. Zanne,David C. Tank,William K. Cornwell,Jonathan M. Eastman,Stephen A. Smith,Richard G. FitzJohn,Daniel J. McGlinn,Brian C. O'Meara,Angela T. Moles,Peter B. Reich,Dana L. Royer,Douglas E. Soltis,Peter F. Stevens,Mark Westoby,Ian J. Wright,Lonnie W. Aarssen,Robert I. Bertin,Andre Calaminus,Rafaël Govaerts,Frank A. Hemmings,Michelle R. Leishman,Jacek Oleksyn,Pamela S. Soltis,Nathan G. Swenson,Laura Warman,Jeremy M. Beaulieu +25 more
TL;DR: This corrects the article to show that the method used to derive the H2O2 “spatially aggregating force” is based on a two-step process, not a single step, like in the previous version of this paper.
Temporal Changes in Tree Species and Trait Composition in a Cyclone-prone Pacific Dipterocarp Forest
TL;DR: Demographic changes across census years suggest that the community responded to cyclonic disturbances through substantial turnover in the small- and medium-size individuals, and that there has been an increase in plot-level stem density and basal area across the measured period.
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Functional groups, determinism and the dynamics of a tropical forest
TL;DR: Forest dynamics are likely governed by deterministic processes at the between‐functional group level where species relative abundances change or drift through time within group, suggesting that these groups may act as broad adaptive zones for both common and rare species that may promote species coexistence.
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The geographic and climatic distribution of plant height diversity for 19,000 angiosperms in China
Lingfeng Mao,Nathan G. Swenson,Xinghua Sui,Jinlong Zhang,Shengbin Chen,Jingji Li,Peihao Peng,Guangsheng Zhou,Xinshi Zhang +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the distribution and diversity of plant maximum height in relation to climatic gradients for 19,000 Angiosperm species across China and found that the mean maximum height is highest in regions with higher temperatures and annual precipitation indicating that increases in precipitation are enough to offset the concomitant increase in temperature, which was expected to limit plant height.
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