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• Ascoli, D., Maringer, J., Hacket-Pain, A., Conedera, M., Drobyshev, I., Motta, R., Cirolli, M., Kantorowicz, W., Zang, C., Schueler, S., Croise, L., Piussi, P., Berretti, R., Palaghianu, C., Westergren, M., Lageard, J. G. A., Burkart, A., Gehrig Bichsel, R., Thomas, P. A., Beudert, B., Overgaard, R., Vacchiano, G. 2017. Two centuries of masting data for European beech and Norway spruce across the European continent. Ecology 98: 1473-1473.
• Bogdziewicz, M., Ascoli, D., Hacket-Pain, A., Koenig, W. D., Pearse, I. S., Pesendorfer, M., Satake, A., Thomas, P., Vacchiano, G., Wohlgemuth, T., Tanentzap, A. J. 2020. From theory to experiments for testing the proximate mechanisms of mast seeding: an agenda for an experimental ecology. Ecology Letters 23: 210-220.
• Bogdziewicz, M., Hacket-Pain, A., Kelly, D., Thomas, P. A., Lageard, J., Tanentzap, A. J. 2021. Climate warming causes mast seeding to break down by reducing sensitivity to weather cues. Global Change Biology 27: 1952-1961.
• Bogdziewicz, M., Kelly, D., Tanentzap, A. J., Thomas, P. A., Lageard, J. G. A., Hacket-Pain, A. 2020. Climate Change Strengthens Selection for Mast Seeding in European Beech. Current Biology 30: 3477-3483.
• Bogdziewicz, M., Kelly, D., Thomas, P. A., Lageard, J. G. A., Hacket-Pain, A. 2020. Climate warming disrupts mast seeding and its fitness benefits in European beech. Nature Plants 6: 88-94.
• Dering, M., Baranowska, M., Beridze, B., Chybicki, I. J., Danelia, I., Iszkulo, G., Kvartskhava, G., Kosinski, P., Raczka, G., Thomas, P. A., Tomaszewski, D., Walas, L., Sekiewicz, K. 2021. The evolutionary heritage and ecological uniqueness of Scots pine in the Caucasus ecoregion is at risk of climate changes. Scientific Reports 11: 22845.
• Hacket-Pain, A. J., Friend, Andrew D., Lageard, J. G. A., Thomas, P. A. 2015. The influence of masting phenomenon on growth–climate relationships in trees: explaining the influence of previous summers' climate on ring width. Tree Physiology 35: 319-330.
• Hacket-Pain, A. J., Lageard, J. G. A., Thomas, P. A. 2017. Drought and reproductive effort interact to control growth of a temperate broadleaved tree species (Fagus sylvatica). Tree Physiology 37: 744-754.
• Hacket-Pain, A., Foest, J. J., Pearse, I. S., LaMontagne, J. M., Koenig, W. D., Vacchiano, G., Bogdziewicz, M., Caignard, T., Celebias, P., van Dormolen, J., Fernandez-Martínez, M., Moris, J. V., Palaghianu, C., Pesendorfer, M., Satake, A., Schermer, E., Tanentzap, A. J., Thomas, P. A., Vecchio, D., Wion, A. P., Wohlgemuth, T., Xue, T., Abernethy, K., Aravena Acuna, M., Daniel Barrera, M., Barton, J. H., Boutin, S., Bush, E. R., Donoso Calderón, S., Carevic, F. S., de Castilho, C. V., Manuel Cellini, J., Chapman, C. A., Chapman, H., Chianucci, F., da Costa, P., Croise L., Cutini, A., Dantzer, B., Justin DeRose, R., Dikangadissi, J., Dimoto, E., da Fonseca, F. L., Gallo, L., Gratzer, G., Greene, D. F., Hadad, M. A., Herrera, A. H., Jeffery, K. J., Johnstone, J. F., Kalbitzer, U., Kantorowicz, W., Klimas, C. A., Lageard, J. G. A., Lane, J., Lapin, K., Ledwon, M., Leeper, A. C., Vanessa Lencinas, M., Lira-Guedes, A. C., Lordon, M. C., Marchelli, P., Marino, S., Schmidt Van Marle, H., McAdam, A. G., Momont, L. R. W., Nicolas, M., de Oliveira Wadt, L. H., Panahi, P., Martínez Pastur, G., Patterson, T., Luis Peri, P., Piechnik, L., Pourhashemi, M., Espinoza Quezada, C., Roig, F. A., Pena Rojas, K., Micaela Rosas, Y., Schueler, S., Seget, B., Soler, R., Steele, M. A., Toro-Manriquez, M., Tutin, C. E. G., Ukizintambara, T., White, L. J. T., Yadok, B., Willis, J. L., Zolles, A., Żywiec, M., Ascoli, D. 2022. MASTREE+: Time-series of plant reproductive effort from six continents. Global Change Biology 28: 3066-3082.
• Hartley, J., Cowan, J., Deeson, C., Thomas, P. A. 2016. Book reviews in time. Scientometrics 109: 2123-2128.
• Hindson, T., Moir, A., Thomas, P. 2019. Estimating the Ages of Yews - Challenging Constant Annual Increment as a suitable model. Quarterly Journal of Forestry 113: 184-188.
• Hiron, A., Thomas, P. A. 2018. Applied Tree Biology. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester.
• Journe, V., Andrus, R., Aravena, M., Ascoli, D., Berretti, R., Berveiller, D., Bogdziewicz, M., Boivin, T., Bonal, R., Caignard, T., Calama, R., Camarero, J. J., Chang-Yang, C., Courbaud, B., Courbet, F., Curt, T., Das, A. J., Daskalakou, E., Davi, H., Delpierre, N., Delzon, S., Dietze, M. C., Donoso Calderon, S., Dormont, L., Maria Espelta, J., Fahey, T. J., Farfan-Rios, W., Gehring, C. A., Gilbert, G. S., Gratzer, G., Greenberg, C. H., Guo, Q., Hacket-Pain, A., Hampe, A., Han, Q., Lambers, J. H. R., Hoshizaki, K., Ibanez, I., Johnstone, J. F., Kabeya, D., Kays, R., Kitzberger, T., Knops, J. M. H., Kobe, R. K., Kunstler, G., Lageard, J. G. A., LaMontagne, J. M., Leininger, T., Limousin, J., Lutz, J. A., Macias, D., McIntire, E. J. B., Moore, C. M., Moran, E., Motta, R., Myers, J. A., Nagel, T. A., Noguchi, K., Ourcival, J., Parmenter, R., Pearse, I. S., Perez-Ramos, I. M., Piechnik, L., Poulsen, J., Poulton-Kamakura, R., Qiu, T., Redmond, M. D., Reid, C. D., Rodman, K. C., Rodriguez-Sanchez, F., Sanguinetti, J. D., Scher, C. Lane, Marle, H. S. V., Seget, B., Sharma, S., Silman, M., Steele, M.l A., Stephenson, N. L., Straub, J. N., Swenson, J. J., Swift, M., Thomas, P. A., Uriarte, M., Vacchiano, G., Veblen, T. T., Whipple, A. V., Whitham, T. G., Wright, B., Wright, S. J., Zhu, K., Zimmerman, J. K., Zlotin, R., Zywiec, M., Clark, J. S. 2022. Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients. Ecology Letters 25: 1471-1482.
• Lageard, J. G. A., Thomas, P. A., Cheng, J. 2017. Animating tree colonization and growth. Dendrochronologia 42: 13-20.
• Mukassabi, T., Thomas, P. A., Coleshaw, T., Polwart, A. 2015. Is Scots pine a successful invader in contemporary bog?. International Proceedings of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering 88: 72-80.
• Mukassabi, T., Thomas, P., Elmogasapi, A. 2017. Medicinal plants in Cyrenaica, Libya: existence and extinction. Biological Diversity and Conservation 10: 183.
• Nowak, K., Giertych, M. J., Pers-Kamczyc, E., Thomas, P. A., Iszkulo, G. 2021. Rich but not poor conditions determine sex‐specific differences in growth rate of juvenile dioecious plants. Journal of Plant Research 134: 947-962.
• Nowak, K., Giertych, M. J., Pers-Kamczyc, E., Thomas, P., Iszkulo, G. 2021. Defence Is a Priority in Female Juveniles and Adults of Taxus baccata L. Forests 12: 844.
• Nowak-Dyjeta, K., Giertych, M. J., Thomas, P., Iszkulo, G. 2017. Males and females of Juniperus communis L. and Taxus baccata L. show different seasonal patterns of nitrogen and carbon content in needles. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum 39: 191.
• Qiu, T., Andrus, R., Aravena, M., Ascoli, D., Bergeron, Y., Berretti, R., Berveiller, D., Bogdziewicz, M., Boivin, T., Bonal, R., Bragg, D. C., Caignard, T., Calama, R., Camarero, J. J., Chang-Yang, C., Cleavitt, N. L., Courbaud, B., Courbet, F., Curt, T., Das, A. J., Daskalakou, E., Davi, H., Delpierre, N., Delzon, S., Dietze, M. C., Calderon, S. D., Dormont, L., Espelta, J., Fahey, T. J., Farfan-Rios, W., Gehring, C. A., Gilbert, G. S., Gratzer, G., Greenberg, C. H., Guo, Q., Hacket-Pain, A., Hampe, A., Han, Q., Hille Ris Lambers, J., Hoshizaki, K., Ibanez, I., Johnstone, J. F., Journé, V., Kabeya, D., Kilner, C. L., Kitzberger, T., Knops, J. M. H., Kobe, R. K., Kunstler, G., Lageard, J. G. A., LaMontagne, J. M., Ledwon, M., Lefevre, F., Leininger, T., Limousin, J., Lutz, J. A., Macias, D., McIntire, E. J. B., Moore, C. M., Moran, E., Motta, R., Myers, J. A., Nagel, T. A., Noguchi, K., Ourcival, J., Parmenter, R., Pearse, I. S., Perez-Ramos, I. M., Piechnik, L., Poulsen, J., Poulton-Kamakura, R., Redmond, M. D., Reid, C. D., Rodman, K. C., Rodriguez-Sanchez, F., Sanguinetti, J. D., Scher, C. L., Schlesinger, W. H., Schmidt Van Marle, H., Seget, B., Sharma, S., Silman, M., Steele, M. A., Stephenson, N. L., Straub, J. N., Sun, I. F., Sutton, S., Swenson, J. J., Swift, M., Thomas, P. A., Uriarte, M., Vacchiano, G., Veblen, T. T., Whipple, A. V., Whitham, T. G., Wion, A. P., Wright, B., Wright, S. J., Zhu, K., Zimmerman, J. K., Zlotin, R., Zywiec, M., Clark, J. S. 2022. Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery. Nature Communications 13: 2381.
• Robakowski, P., Pers-Kamczyc, E., Ratajczak, E., Thomas, P. A., Ye, Z., Rabska, M., Iszkuło, G. 2018. Photochemistry and Antioxidative Capacity of Female and Male Taxus baccata L. Acclimated to Different Nutritional Environments. Frontiers in Plant Science 9: article742.
• Sekiewicz, K., Danelia, I., Farzaliyev, V., Gholizadeh, H., Iszkulo, G., Naqinezhad, A., Ramezani, E., Thomas, P. A., Tomaszewski, D., Walas, L., Dering, M. 2022. Past climatic refugia and landscape resistance explain spatial genetic structure in Oriental beech in the South Caucasus. Ecology and Evolution 12: e9320.
• Standish, R. J., Hobbs, R. J., Mayfield, M. M., Bestelmeyer, B. T., Suding, K. N., Battaglia, L. L., Eviner, V., Hawkes, C. V., Temperton, V. M., Cramer, V. A., Harris, J. A., Funk, J. L., Thomas, P. A. 2014. Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?. Biological Conservation 177: 43-51.
• Thomas, P. A. 2006. Mortality over 16 years of cacti in a burnt desert grassland. Plant Ecology 183: 9-17.
• Thomas, P. A. 2014. Trees: Their Natural History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Thomas, P. A. 2017. Biological Flora of the British Isles: Sorbus torminalis. Journal of Ecology 105: 1806-1831.
• Thomas, P. A. 2022. Trees. New Naturalist Serices, HarperCollins, London.
• Thomas, P. A., Alhamd, O., Iszkulo, G., Dering, Monika, Mukassabi, Tarek A. 2019. Biological Flora of the British Isles: Aesculus hippocastanum. Journal of Ecology 107: 992-1030.
• Thomas, P. A., Leski, T., La Porta, N., Dering, M., Iszkulo, G. 2021. Biological Flora of the British Isles: Crataegus laevigata. Journal of Ecology 109: 572-596.
• Thomas, P. A., Mukassabi, T. A. 2014. Biological Flora of the British Isles: Ruscus aculeatus. Journal of Ecology 102: 1083-1100.
• Thomas, P. A., Orwig, D. A. 2025. International Biological Flora: Tsuga canadensis. Journal of Ecology 113: 3037-3080.
• Thomas, P. A., Packham, J. R. 2007. Ecology of Woodlands and Forests, Description, Dynamics and Diversity. Cambridge University Press, New York.
• Thomas, P. A., Stone, D., La Porta, N. 2018. Biological Flora of the British Isles: Ulmus glabra. Journal of Ecology 106: 1724-1766.
• Thomas, P., Marti, X. 2015. Response of European yews to climate change: A review. Forest Systems 24: eR01.
• Walas, L., Ganatsas, P., Iszkuło, G., Thomas, P. A., Dering, M. 2019. Spatial genetic structure and diversity of natural populations of Aesculus hippocastanum L. in Greece. PLOS ONE 14: e0226225.
• Walas, L., Mandryk, W., Thomas, P. A., Tyrała-Wierucka, Z., Iszklło, G. 2018. Sexual systems in gymnosperms: A review. Basic and Applied Ecology 31: 1-9.