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2025
Nature
Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity.
Partel M., Tamme R., …, Toussaint A., …, Zobel M. — Nature, 641, 917–924.
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Global Patterns and Determinants of Multiple Facets of Freshwater Fishes Beta Diversity.
Chen Z., Xu C., Brosse S., Toussaint A., Xu J., Su G. — Global Ecology and Biogeography.
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2024
Ecol. Lett.
Contrasting impacts of non-native and threatened species on morphological, life-history, and phylogenetic diversity in bird assemblages.
Toussaint A., Pärtel M., Carmona C.P. — Ecology Letters, 27, e14373.
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GEB
Global patterns and determinants of multiple facets of plant diversity.
Tordoni E., Carmona C.P., Toussaint A., Tamme R., Pärtel M. — Global Ecology and Biogeography, e13823.
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Award
OTSIMAS ELURIKKUSE MÕÕTMEID LOOMADE JA TAIMEDE SEAST, MAA ALT JA MAA PEALT.
Carmona C.P., Pärtel M., Tamme R., Toussaint A. — EESTI VABARIIGI PREEMIAD.
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Mar. Env. Res.
Shark critical life stage vulnerability to monthly temperature variations under climate change.
Coulon N., Pilet S., Lizé A., Lacoue-Labarthe T., Sturbois A., Toussaint A., Feunteun E., Carpentier A. — Marine Environmental Research, 198, 106531.
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2023
Preprint
Contrasting impacts of non-native and threatened species on morphological, life-history, and phylogenetic diversity in birds' assemblages.
Toussaint A., Pärtel M., Carmona C.P. — Authorea.
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GEB
Threatened fish species in the Northeast Atlantic are functionally rare.
Coulon N., Lindegren M., Goberville E., Toussaint A., Receveur A., Auber A. — Global Ecology and Biogeography, 1–19.
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Nature
Reply to: The importance of trait selection in ecology.
Bueno C.G., Toussaint A., Träger S. et al. — Nature, 618, E31–E34.
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Preprint
Non-native bird species will not compensate for the loss of phylogenetic and functional diversity after the extinction of threatened species.
Toussaint A., Pärtel M., Carmona C.P. — Authorea.
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TREE
Why do plants silicify?
de Tombeur F., Raven J.A., Toussaint A., Lambers H., Cooke J., Hartley S.E., Johnson S.N., Coq S., Katz O., Schaller J., Violle C. — Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 38(3), 275–288.
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2022
Nat. Comms.
A functional vulnerability framework for biodiversity conservation.
Auber A., Waldock C., Maire A., Goberville E., Albouy C., Algar A.C., McLean M., Brind'Amour A., Green A.L., Tupper M., Vigliola L., Kaschner K., Kesner-Reyes K., Beger M., Tjiputra J., Toussaint A., Violle C., Mouquet N., Thuiller W., Mouillot D. — Nature Communications, 13, 4774.
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Div. Distrib.
Dark diversity at home describes the success of cross-continent tree invasions.
Paganeli B., Toussaint A., Bueno C.G., Fujinuma J., Reier Ü., Pärtel M. — Diversity and Distributions, 28(6), 1202–1213.
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GEB
Contemporary environment and historical legacy explain functional diversity of freshwater fishes in the world rivers.
Su G., Tedesco P.A., Toussaint A., Villeger S., Brosse S. — Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31, 700–713.
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2021
Sci. Advances
Erosion of global functional diversity across the tree of life.
Carmona C.P., Tamme R., Pärtel M., de Bello F., Brosse S., Capdevila P., Gonzalez-M R., Gonzalez-Suarez M., Salguero-Gomez R., Vasquez-Valderrama M., Toussaint A. — Science Advances, 7(13), eabf2675.
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Preprint
Combining taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity reveals new global priority areas for tetrapod conservation.
Tordoni E., Toussaint A., Pärtel M., Nogues-Bravo D., Carmona C.P. — bioRxiv.
DOI
Nat. Comms.
Extinction of threatened vertebrates will lead to idiosyncratic changes in functional diversity across the world.
Toussaint A., Brosse S., Bueno C.G., Pärtel M., Tamme S., Carmona C.P. — Nature Communications, 12(1), 1–12.
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Nature
Fine-root traits in the global spectrum of plant form and function.
Carmona C.P., Bueno C.G., Toussaint A., Träger S., Diaz S., Moora M., Munson D.A., Pärtel M., Zobel M., Tamme R. — Nature, 597(7878), 683–687.
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GEB
FISHMORPH: A global database on morphological traits of freshwater fishes.
Brosse S., Charpin N., Su G., Toussaint A., Herrera-R. G.A., Tedesco P.A., Villeger S. — Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(12), 2330–2336.
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2020
J. Veg. Sci.
Asymmetric patterns of global diversity among plants and mycorrhizal fungi.
Toussaint A., Bueno C.G., Davison J., Moora M., Tedersoo L., Zobel M., Opik M., Partel M. — Journal of Vegetation Science, 31(2), 355–366.
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Sci. Tot. Env.
A diagnostic-based approach to assess specific risks of river degradation in a multiple pressure context: Insights from fish communities.
Derezal O., Mondy P.C., Dembski S., Kreutzenberger K., Reyjol Y., Chanderis A., Valette L., Brosse S., Toussaint A., Beillard J., Merg M.L., Usseglio-Polatera P. — Science of The Total Environment, 734, 139467.
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Preprint
Mapping extinction risk in the global functional spectra across the tree of life.
Carmona C.P., Tamme R., Partel M., de Bello F., Brosse S., Capdevila P., Gonzalez-M R., Gonzalez-Suarez M., Salguero-Gomez R., Vasquez-Valderrama M., Toussaint A. — bioRxiv.
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2018
J. Veg. Sci.
Global database of plants with root-symbiotic nitrogen fixation: Nod DB.
Tedersoo L., Laanisto L., Rahimlou S., Toussaint A., Hallikma T., Pärtel M. — Journal of Vegetation Science, 29(3), 560–568.
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Ecography
Spatial mismatch in morphological, ecological and phylogenetic diversity in historical and contemporary European freshwater fish faunas.
Kuczynski L., Côte J., Toussaint A., Brosse S., Buisson L., Grenouillet G. — Ecography, 41, 1665–1674.
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Ecol. Lett.
Non-native species led to marked shifts in functional diversity of the world freshwater fish faunas.
Toussaint A., Charpin N., Beauchard O., Grenouillet G., Oberdorff T., Tedesco P.A., Villéger S., Brosse S. — Ecology Letters, 21(11), 1649–1659.
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2016
Biol. Invasions
Worldwide freshwater fish homogenization is driven by a few widespread non-native species.
Toussaint A., Beauchard O., Oberdorff T., Brosse S., Villeger S. — Biological Invasions, 18, 1295–1304.
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Sci. Reports
Global functional diversity of freshwater fish is concentrated in the Neotropics.
Toussaint A., Charpin N., Brosse S., Villéger S. — Scientific Reports, 6, 22125.
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2015
J. Appl. Ichthyol.
Length-weight relationship of 58 fish species in streams of French Guiana.
Allard L., Toussaint A., Vigouroux R., Brosse S. — Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 31, 567–570.
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2014
GEB
Historical assemblage distinctiveness and the introduction of widespread non-native species explain worldwide changes in freshwater fish taxonomic dissimilarity.
Toussaint A., Beauchard O., Oberdorff T., Brosse S., Villéger S. — Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23, 574–584.
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