Publications
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2023
Orrock, J.L., L.A. Brudvig, E.I. Damschen, W.B. Mattingly, J. Cruz, J.W. Veldman, P.G. Hahn, A.L. Larsen-Gray. Long-term, large-scale experiment reveals the effects of seed limitation, climate, and anthropogenic disturbance on restoration of plant communities in a biodiversity hotspot. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120: e2201943119. full text
2022
Erdős, L., P. Török, J.W. Veldman, Z. Bátori, Á. Bede‐Fazekas, M. Magnes, György Kröel‐Dulay, C. Tölgyesi. How climate, topography, soils, herbivores, and fire control forest–grassland coexistence in the Eurasian forest‐steppe. Biological Reviews 97: 2195–2208. full text
Silveira., F.A.O, C.A. Ordóñez-Parra, L.C. Moura, I.B. Schmidt, A.N. Andersen, W.J. Bond, E. Buisson, G. Durigan, A. Fidelis, R.S. Oliveira, Catherine L. Parr, L. Rowland, J.W. Veldman, R.T. Pennington. 2021. Biome Awareness Disparity is BAD for tropical ecosystem conservation and restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology 59: 1967-1975. full text
Fleischman, F., E. Coleman, H. Fischer, P. Kashwan, M. Pfeifer, V. Ramprasad, C. Solorzano Rodriguez, J.W. Veldman. 2022. Restoration prioritization must be informed by marginalized people. Nature 607: e5-e6. full text
Overbeck, G.E., E. Vélez-Martin, L. da Silva Menezes, M. Anand, S. Baeza, M.B. Carlucci, M.S. Dechoum, G. Durigan, A. Fidelis, A. Guido, M. Freire Moro, C.B. Rodrigues Munhoz, M. Reginato, R. Schütz Rodrigues, M. Rosenfield, A.B. Sampaio, F. Henrique Barbosa da Silva, F.A.O. Silveira, Ê.E. Sosinski J., I.R. Staude, V. Temperton, C. Turchetto, J.W. Veldman, P.L. Viana, D.C. Zappi, S.C. Müller. 2022. Placing Brazil's grasslands and savannas on the map of science and conservation. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 56: 1256678. DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2022.125687 pdf
Dobson, A., G. Hopcraft, S. Mduma, J.O. Ogutu, J. Fryxell, T.M. Anderson, S. Archibald, C. Lehmann, J. Poole, J. Poole, T. Caro, M. Borgerhoff Mulder, R.D. Holt, J. Berger, D.I. Rubenstein, P. Kahumbu, E.N. Chidumayo, E.J. Milner-Gulland, S. Otto, M. Ritchie, A. Balmer, D. Wilcove, S. Pimm, J.W. Veldman, H. Olff, R. Noss, R. Holdo, C. Beale, G. Hempson, Y. Kiwango, D. Lindenmayer, W. Bond, A.R.E. Sinclair. 2022. Savannas are vital but overlooked carbon sinks. Science 375: 392. pdf
2021
Novak, E.N., M. Bertelsen, D. Davis, D.M. Grobert, K.G. Lyons, J.P. Martina, W.M. McCaw, M. O’Toole, and J.W. Veldman. 2021. Season of prescribed fire determines grassland restoration outcomes after fire exclusion and overgrazing. Ecosphere 12:e03730. full text
2020
Fleischman, F., S. Basant, A. Chhatre, E.A. Coleman, H.W. Fischer, D. Gupta, B. Güneralp, P. Kashwan, D. Khatri, R. Muscarella, J.S. Powers, V. Ramprasad, P. Rana, C. Rodriguez S., J.W. Veldman. 2020. Pitfalls of tree planting show why we need people-centered natural climate solutions. BioScience 70: 947-950. pdf
Haddad, T.M., R.A.G. Viani, M.G.B. Cava, G. Durigan, J.W. Veldman. 2020. Savannas after afforestation: Assessment of herbaceous community responses to wildfire versus native tree planting. Biotropica 52: 1206-1216. pdf
Nerlekar, A.N., J.W. Veldman. 2020. High diversity and slow recovery of old-growth grasslands. 2020. Proceedings of the Nation Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117: 18550–18556. full text
Fadrique, B., J.W. Veldman, J.W. Dalling, L.G. Clark, L. Montti, E. Ruiz-Sanchez, D.C. Rother, F. Ely, W. Farfan-Ríos, P. Gagnon, C.M. Prada, J.C. Camargo García, S. Saha, T.T. Veblen, X. Londoño, K.J. Feeley, C.A. Rockwell. 2020. Guidelines for including bamboos in tropical ecosystem monitoring. Biotropica 52: 427–443. pdf
2019
Veldman, J.W., J.C. Aleman, S.T. Alvarado, T. M. Anderson, S. Archibald, W.J. Bond, T.W. Boutton, N. Buchmann, E. Buisson, J.G. Canadell, M.S. Dechoum, M.H. Diaz-Toribio, G. Durigan, J.J. Ewel, G.W. Fernandes, A. Fidelis, F. Fleischman, S.P. Good, D.M. Griffith, J.M. Hermann, W.A. Hoffmann, S. Le Stradic, C.E.R. Lehmann, G. Mahy, A.N. Nerlekar, J.B. Nippert, R.F. Noss, C.P. Osborne, G.E. Overbeck, C.L. Parr, J.G. Pausas, R.T. Pennington, M.P. Perring, F.E. Putz, J. Ratnam, M. Sankaran, I.B. Schmidt, C.B. Schmitt, F.A.O. Silveira, A.C. Staver, N. Stevens, C. Still, C.A.E. Strömberg, V.M. Temperton, J.M. Varner, N.P. Zaloumis. 2019. Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”. Science 366: eaay7976. full text
Temperton, V.M, N. Buchmann, E. Buisson, G. Durigan, L. Kazmierczak, M.P. Perring, M. de Sá Dechoum, J.W. Veldman, G.E. Overbeck. 2019. Step back from the forest and step up to the Bonn Challenge: How a broad ecological perspective can promote successful landscape restoration. Restoration Ecology 27: 705-719 pdf
Buisson, E., S.Le Stradic, F.A.O. Silveira, G. Durigan, G.E. Overbeck, A. Fidelis, G.W. Fernandes, W.J. Bond, J.M. Hermann, G. Mahy, S.T. Alvarado, N.P. Zaloumis, J.W. Veldman. 2019. Resilience and restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and grassy woodlands. Biological Reviews 94: 590-609 pdf
2018
Fargione, J.E, S. Bassett, T. Boucher, S. Bridgham, R.T. Conant, S.C. Cook-Patton, P.W. Ellis, A. Falcucci, J. Forqurean, T. Gopalakrishna, H. Gu, B. Henderson, M.D. Hurteau, K.D. Kroeger, T. Kroeger, T.J. Lark, S.M. Leavitt, G. Lomax, R.I. McDonald, J.P. Megonigal, D.A. Miteva, C. Richardson, J. Sanderman, D. Shoch, S.A. Spawn, J.W. Veldman, C.A. Williams, P. Woodbury, C. Zganjar, M. Baranski, P. Elias, R.A. Houghton, E. Landis, E. Mcglynn, S. Ohler, W.H. Schlesinger, J.V. Siikamaki, A.E. Sutton-Grier, B.W. Griscom. 2018. Natural Climate Solutions for the United States. Science Advances 4: eaat1869. pdf
2017
Griffith, D.M., C.E.R. Lehmann, C.A.E. Strömberg, C.L. Parr, R.T. Pennington, M. Sankaran, J. Ratnam, C.J. Still, R.L. Powell, N.P. Hanan, J.B. Nippert, C.P. Osborne, S.P. Good, T.M. Anderson, R.M. Holdo, J.W. Veldman, G. Durigan, K.W. Tomlinson, W.A. Hoffmann, S. Archibald, and W.J. Bond. 2017. Comment on “The extent of forest in dryland biomes”. Science 358: eaao1309. pdf
Veldman, J.W. F.A.O. Silveira, F.D. Fleischman, N.L. Ascarrunz, G. Durigan. 2017. Grassy biomes: An inconvenient reality for large-scale forest restoration? American Journal of Botany 104: 649-651. pdf
2016
Veldman, J.W. 2016. Clarifying the confusion: old-growth savannahs and tropical ecosystem degradation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371:20150306. pdf
Fuentes-Ramirez, A., J.W. Veldman, C. Holzapfel, K.A. Moloney. 2016. Spreaders, igniters and burning shrubs: plant flammability explains novel fire dynamics in grass-invaded deserts. Ecological Applications 26:2311-2322. pdf
Varner, J.M., J.M. Kane, J.K. Hiers, J.K. Kreye, J.W. Veldman. 2016. Suites of fire-adapted traits of the southeastern USA oaks: multiple strategies for persistence. Fire Ecology 12:48-64. pdf
2015
Veldman, J.W., G.E. Overbeck, D. Negreiros, G. Mahy, S. Le Stradic, G.W. Fernandes, G. Durigan, E. Buisson, F.E. Putz, W.J. Bond. 2015. Where tree planting and forest expansion are bad for biodiversity and ecosystem services. BioScience 65:1011-1018. pdf supplement
Veldman, J.W., E. Buisson, G.W. Fernandes, G. Durigan, S. Le Stradic, G. Mahy, D. Negreiros, G.E. Overbeck, R.G. Veldman, N.P. Zaloumis, F. E. Putz, and W.J. Bond. 2015. Toward an old-growth concept for grasslands, savannas, and woodlands. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13:154–162. pdf
Veldman, J.W., G.E. Overbeck, D. Negreiros, G. Mahy, S. Le Stradic, G.W. Fernandes, G. Durigan, E. Buisson, F.E. Putz, and W.J. Bond. 2015. Tyranny of trees in grassy biomes. Science 347: 484-485. pdf
Mattingly, W.B., J.L. Orrock, C.D. Collins, Brudvig, L.A., E.I. Damschen, J.W. Veldman, and J.L. Walker. 2015. Historical agriculture alters the effects of fire on understory plant beta diversity. Oecologia 177:507-518.
2014
Veldman, J.W., L.A. Brudvig, E.I. Damschen, J.L. Orrock, W.B. Mattingly, J.L. Walker. 2014. Fire frequency, agricultural history and the multivariate control of pine savanna understorey plant diversity. Journal of Vegetation Science. 25:1438-1449. pdf supplement
Brudvig, L.A., J.L. Orrock, E.I. Damschen, C.D. Collins, P.G. Hahn, W.B. Mattingly, J.W. Veldman, and J.L. Walker. 2014. Land-use history and contemporary management inform an ecological reference model for longleaf pine woodland understory plant communities. PLoS ONE 9: e86604. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0086604 pdf
2013
Veldman, J.W., W.B. Mattingly, and L.A. Brudvig. 2013. Understory plant communities and the functional distinction between savanna trees, forest trees, and pines. Ecology 94:424-434. pdf
2011
Garcia M.G., R.S. Silva, M.A. Carniello, J.W. Veldman, A.A.B. Rossi, and L.O. Oliveira. 2011. Molecular evidence of cryptic speciation, historical range expansion, and recent intraspecific hybridization in the Neotropical seasonal forest tree Cedrela fissilis (Meliaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61:639-649. pdf
Veldman, J.W. and F.E. Putz. 2011. Grass-dominated vegetation, not species-diverse natural savanna, replaces degraded tropical forests on the southern edge of the Amazon Basin. Biological Conservation 144:1419-1429. pdf
2010
Veldman, J.W. and F.E. Putz. 2010. Long-distance dispersal of invasive grasses by logging vehicles in a tropical dry forest. Biotropica 42:697–703. pdf
2009
Veldman, J.W., B. Mostacedo, M. Peña-Claros, and F. E. Putz. 2009. Selective logging and fire as drivers of alien grass invasion in a Bolivian tropical dry forest. Forest Ecology and Management 258:1643-1649. pdf
2008
Veldman, J.W. 2008. Guadua paniculata (Bambusoideae) in the Bolivian Chiquitania: fire ecology and a potential native forage grass. Revista Boliviana de Ecología y Conservación Ambiental 24:65-74. pdf
2007
Veldman, J.W., K.G. Murray, A.L. Hull, J.M. Garcia-C., W.S. Mungall, G.B. Rotman, M.P. Plosz and L.K. McNamara. 2007. Chemical defense and the persistence of pioneer plant seeds in the soil of a tropical cloud forest Biotropica 39:87-93. pdf
