Selected publications are listed below (lab members in bold).
A complete list is at Jeremy’s Google Scholar page.

Pandit, K., D.J. Johnson, J.E. Smith, G.M. Domke, and J.W. Lichstein. 2026. Aboveground biomass and seedling responses to forest disturbances across the conterminous United States. Forest Ecology and Management, 617:123928.

Park, J.Y., H.C. Muller-Landau, J.W. Lichstein, S.W. Rifai, J.P. Dandois, and S.A. Bohlman. 2026. Interspecific variation in leaf phenology and its relationship with plant traits in a seasonal tropical forest. Functional Ecology 40:433-450.

Liu, Y., S.M. Scheiner, J.A. Hogan, M.B. Thomas, P.S. Soltis, R.P. Guralnick, D.E. Soltis, and J.W. Lichstein. 2025. Non-native tree invaders lead to declines in native tree species richness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 122: e2424908122.

Hogan, J.A., J.W. Lichstein, E.H. Helmer, M.E. Craig, E. Fricke, V. Henrich, S.A. Kannenberg, C. Koven, K. Klein Goldewjik, D. Lapola, Y. Li, Y. Malhi, J. Quinn, S. Roe, C. Terrer, E. Vilanova, A.P. Walker, K. Zhu, E.C. Ellis. 2025. Anthromes and forest carbon responses to global change. Plants People Planet 7:1027-1042.

Katabuchi, M., K. Kitajima, S.J. Wright, J.L.D. Osnas, and J.W. Lichstein. 2025. Decomposing leaf mass into photosynthetic and structural components explains divergent patterns of trait variation within and among plant species. Oecologia 207, 71:1-14.

Hogan, J.A., G.M. Domke, K. Zhu, D.J. Johnson, and J.W. Lichstein. 2024. Climate change determines the sign of productivity trends in US forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 121:e2311132121.

Lichstein, J.W., T. Zhang, E. Weng, C.E. Farrior, S. Malyshev, R. Dybzinski, E. Shevliakova, R.A. Birdsey, and S.W. Pacala. 2024. Effects of water limitation on optimal tree carbon allocation in an Earth system modeling framework. Journal of Ecology 112:2522-2539.

Liu, Y., J.A. Hogan, J.W. Lichstein, R.P. Guralnick, D.E. Soltis, P.S. Soltis, and S.M. Scheiner. 2024. Biodiversity and productivity in eastern USA forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 121:e2314231121.

Webb, E.E., H.D. Alexander, M.M. Loranty, A.C. Talucci, and J.W. Lichstein. 2024. Siberian larch fire regimes and climate change. Ecosystems 27:879-898.

Webb, E.E., H.D. Alexander, A.K. Paulson, M.M. Loranty, J. DeMarco, A.C. Talucci, V. Spektor, N. Zimov, and J.W. Lichstein. 2024. Fire-induced carbon loss and tree mortality in Siberian larch forests. Geophysical Research Letters 51, e2023GL105216.

Webb, E.E., A.K. Lijedahl, J.A. Cordeiro, M.M. Loranty, C. Witharana, and J.W. Lichstein. 2022. Permafrost thaw drives surface water decline across lake-rich regions of the Arctic. Nature Climate Change 12:841-846.

Webb, E.E., M.M. Loranty, and J.W. Lichstein. 2021. Surface water amplifies the Arctic-boreal albedo feedback. Environmental Research Letters 16:084046.

Lichstein, J.W., B. Peterson, J. Langebrake, and S. McKinley. 2021. Leaf economics of early- and late-successional plants. American Naturalist 198:347-359.

McDowell, N.G., C.D. Allen, K. Anderson-Teixeira, B.H. Aukema, B. Bond-Lamberty, L. Chini, J.S. Clark, M. Dietze, C. Grossiord, A. Hanbury-Brown, G.C. Hurtt, R.B. Jackson, D.J. Johnson, L. Kueppers, J.W. Lichstein, K. Ogle, B. Poulter, T.A.M. Pugh, R. Seidl, M.G. Turner, M. Uriarte, A.P. Walker, C. Xu. 2020. Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world. Science 368:964-975.

Rüger, N., R. Condit, D.H. Dent, S.J. DeWalt, S.P. Hubbell, J.W. Lichstein, O.R. Lopez, C. Wirth, and C.E. Farrior. 2020. Demographic tradeoffs predict tropical forest dynamics. Science 368:165-168.

Kattge, J., et al. 2020. TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology 26:119-188.

Park, J.Y., H.C. Muller-Landau, J.W. Lichstein, S.W. Rifai, J.P. Dandois, and S.A. Bohlman. 2019. Quantifying leaf phenology of individual trees and species in a tropical forest using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images. Remote Sensing 11:1534.

Osnas, J.L.D., M. Katabuchi, S.J. Wright, K. Kitajima, N. Kraft, P.B. Reich, M.J. Samaniego, S.A. Van Bael, S.W. Pacala, and J.W. Lichstein. 2018. Divergent drivers of leaf trait variation within species, among species, and among functional groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 115(21):5480-5485.

Zhang, T., Ü. Niinemets, J. Sheffield, and J.W. Lichstein. 2018. Shifts in tree functional composition amplify the response of forest biomass to climate. Nature 556:99-102. link to paper | link to Nature News and Views article

Fisher, R.A., C.D. Koven, W.R.L. Anderegg, B.O. Christoffersen, M.C. Dietze, C. Farrior, J.A. Holm, G. Hurtt, R.G. Knox, P.J. Lawrence, J.W. Lichstein, M. Longo, A.M. Matheny, D. Medvigy, H.C. Muller-Landau, T.L. Powell, S.P. Serbin, H. Sato, J. Shuman, B. Smith, A.T. Trugman, T. Viskari, H. Verbeeck, E. Weng, C. Xu, X. Xu, T. Zhang, P. Moorcroft. 2018. Vegetation Demographics in Earth System Models: a review of progress and priorities. Global Change Biology 24:35-54.

Menge, D.N.L., S.A. Batterman, W. Liao, B.N. Taylor, J.W. Lichstein, and G. Ángeles-Pérez. 2017. Nitrogen-fixing trees comprise similar fractions of tree diversity in higher-latitude and lower-latitude forests in North America despite wide differences in abundance. Ecology Letters 20:842-851.

Caughlin, T.T., S. Elliott, and J.W. Lichstein. 2016. When does seed limitation matter for scaling up reforestation from patches to landscapes? Ecological Applications 26(8):2439-2450.

Rifai, S.W.G, J.D.U. Muñoz, R. Negrón-Juarez, F.R.R. Arévalo, R. Tello-Espinoza, M.C. Vanderwel, J.W. Lichstein, J.Q. Chambers, and S.A. Bohlman. 2016. Landscape-scale consequences of differential tree mortality from catastrophic wind disturbance in the Amazon. Ecological Applications 26(7):2225-2237.

Tautenhahn, S., J.W. Lichstein, M. Jung, J. Kattge, S.A. Bohlman, H. Heilmeier, A. Prokushkin, A. Kahl, C. Wirth. 2016. Dispersal limitation drives successional pathways in Central Siberian forests under current and intensified fire regimes. Global Change Biology 22:2178:2197.

Anderegg W.R.L., J.A. Hicke, R.A. Fisher, C.D. Allen, J. Aukema, B. Bentz, S. Hood, J.W. Lichstein, A.K. Macalady, N. McDowell, Y. Pan, K. Raffa, A. Sala, J.D. Shaw, N.L. Stephenson, C. Tague, M. Zeppel. 2015. Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate. New Phytologist 208:674-683.

Weng, E., S. Malyshev, J.W. Lichstein, C.E. Farrior, R. Dybzinski, T. Zhang, E. Shevliakova, S.W. Pacala. 2015. Scaling from individuals to ecosystems in an Earth System Model using a mathematically tractable model of height-structured competition for light. Biogeosciences 12:2655-2694.

Caughlin, T.T., J. Ferguson, J.W. Lichstein, P. Zuidema, S. Bunyavejchewin, and D. Levey. 2015. Loss of animal seed dispersal increases extinction risk in a tropical tree species due to pervasive negative density dependence across life stages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 298:20142095.

Slot, M., C. Rey-Sánchez, S. Gerber, Lichstein, J.W., K. Winter, and K. Kitajima. 2014. Thermal acclimation of leaf respiration of tropical trees and lianas: response to experimental canopy warming, and consequences for tropical forest carbon balance. Global Change Biology 20:2915-2926.

Menge, D.N.L., J.W. Lichstein, and G. Ángeles-Pérez. 2014. Nitrogen fixation strategies explain the latitudinal shift in nitrogen-fixing tree abundance. Ecology 95(8):2236-2245.

Lichstein, J.W., N. Golaz, S. Malyshev, E. Shevliakova, T. Zhang, J. Sheffield, R.A. Birdsey, J.L. Sarmiento, and S.W. Pacala. 2014. Confronting terrestrial biosphere models with forest inventory data. Ecological Applications 24(4):699-715.

Caughlin, T.T., J. Ferguson, J.W. Lichstein, S. Bunyavejchewin, and D. Levey. 2014. The importance of long distance seed dispersal for the demography and distribution of a canopy tree species. Ecology 95(4):952-962.

Osnas, J.L.D., J.W. Lichstein, P.B. Reich, and S.W. Pacala. 2013. Global leaf trait relationships: mass, area, and the leaf economics spectrum. Science 340:741-744.

Lichstein, J.W. and S.W. Pacala. 2011. Local diversity in heterogeneous landscapes: quantitative assessment with a height-structured forest metacommunity model. Theoretical Ecology 4:269-281.

Lichstein, J.W., J. Dushoff, K. Ogle, A. Chen, D.W. Purves, J.P. Caspersen, and S.W. Pacala. 2010. Unlocking the forest inventory data: relating individual-tree performance to unmeasured environmental factors. Ecological Applications 20(3):684-699.

Purves, D.W., J.W. Lichstein, N. Strigul, and S.W. Pacala. 2008. Predicting and understanding forest dynamics using a simple, tractable model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 105(44):17018-17022.

Wirth C., J.W. Lichstein, J. Dushoff, A. Chen, and F.S. Chapin III. 2008. White spruce meets black spruce: dispersal, postfire establishment, and growth in a warming climate. Ecological Monographs 78(4):489-505.

Lichstein, J.W., J. Dushoff, S.A. Levin, and S.W. Pacala. 2007. Intraspecific variation and species coexistence. American Naturalist 170(6):807-818.

Lichstein, J.W. 2007. Multiple regression on distance matrices: a multivariate spatial analysis tool. Plant Ecology 188(2):117-131.

Lichstein, J.W., H.R. Grau, and R. Aragón. 2004. Recruitment limitation in secondary forests dominated by an exotic tree. Journal of Vegetation Science 15(6):721-728.

Lichstein, J.W., T.R. Simons, and K.E. Franzreb. 2002. Landscape effects on breeding songbird abundance in managed forests. Ecological Applications 12(3):836-857.

Lichstein, J.W., T.R. Simons, S.A. Shriner, and K.E. Franzreb. 2002. Spatial autocorrelation and autoregressive models in ecology. Ecological Monographs 72(3):445-463.