Below are SCI and non-SCI articles and preprints related to the research done in the Vegetation Ecology Lab; members of the lab are highlighted in bold. For all papers by David Zelený, see his personal website.

• Wei S., Lee Y.-N. & Zelený D.* (2025): Are windy leaves sunnier? Accounting for within-plot individual-level environmental heterogeneity to prevent biased estimates of between-plot ITV-environmental relationship. Authorea, https://doi.org/10.22541/au.176097254.47847202/v1

• Lin S.-I. & Zelený D.* (2026): Effects of fog frequency on leaf traits in a subtropical montane cloud forest in Taiwan. Journal of Vegetation Science, 37:e70163, https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70163, free-to-read PDF, preprint on Authorea
• Wei S. & Zelený D.* (2026): Effect of substrate type and bryophyte presence on the early-stage performance of Chamaecyparis obtusa var. formosana seedlings under different drought scenarios. Ecological Research, 41:e70058, https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.70058, free-to-read PDF, preprint on Authorea
• Schrader J., Coleman D., Zelený D., Kreft H. & Westoby M. (2025): Resurveyed island vegetation reveals that species colonisation and extinction probabilities are linked to traits. Ecology Letters, 28:e70223, https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70223 (open access)
• Tseng Y.-P., Zelený D.* & Hsieh C.-F. (2025) Landscape effects on local species richness of woody specialists in Subtropical Montane Cloud Forest of Taiwan. Journal of Biogeography, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15074, free-to-read version
• Chen T., Lee Y.-N., Lin P.-Y., Wu K.-S. & Zelený D.* (2024): Vegetation of Chamaecyparis montane cloud forest in Lalashan Forest Dynamics Plot. Taiwania, 69:399-411 https://doi.org/10.6165/tai.2024.69.399, preprint on bioRχiv
• Zelený D., Helsen K. & Lee Y.-N. (2024): Extending the CWM approach to intraspecific trait variation: how to deal with overly optimistic standard tests? Oecologia, 205:257-269 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-024-05568-1, free-to-read version, preprint on bioRχiv
• Wei S., Tseng Y.-P. & Zelený D.* (2024): The ecological characteristics of the safe sites for early-stage establishment of Chamaecyparis obtusa var. formosana seedlings in Taiwan. Forest Ecology and Management 555:121714, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121714, free-to-read version, preprint on bioRχiv
• Huang C.-L., Zelený D.* & Chang-Yang C.-H. (2023): Integrating several analytical methods to assess strength of ecological processes behind metacommunity assembly. Oikos, e10166, https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10166, free-to-read pdf
• Helsen K., Viana J.L., Lin T.-Y, Kuo L.-Y. & Zelený D.* (2023): Comparing trait syndromes between Taiwanese subtropical terrestrial and epiphytic ferns and lycophytes at the species and community level. Journal of Vegetation Science, 34:e13220, https://doi.org/10.1111/JVS.13220, free-to-read pdf, preprint on bioRχiv
• Chao A., Chiu C.-H., Hu K.-H., Zelený D. (2023): Revisiting Alwyn H. Gentry’s forest transect data: latitudinal beta diversity patterns are revealed using a statistical sampling-model-based approach. Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42081-023-00214-1
• Chao A., Thorn S., Chiu C.-H., Moyes F., Hu K.-H., Chazdon R.L., Wu J., Magnago L.F.S., Dornelas M., Zelený D., Colwell R.K. and Magurran A.E. (2023): Rarefaction and extrapolation with beta diversity under a framework of Hill numbers: The iNEXT.beta3D standardization. Ecological Monographs, e1588, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1588
• Helsen K., Shen Y.-C., Lin T.-Y., Chen C.-F., Huang C.-M., Li C.-F. & Zelený D.* (2022): Climate and soil differentially affect species, trait and diversity patterns of woody overstory and fern understory in a subtropical forest along an elevation gradient in Taiwan. Journal of Vegetation Science, 33:e13130. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13130, free to read pdf
• Chen C.-F., Li C.-F., Huang C.-M., Lin H.-Y. and Zelený D.* (2022): Secondary succession on landslides in submontane forests of central Taiwan: environmental drivers and restoration strategies. Applied Vegetation Science, 25: e12635. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12635, free to read pdf
• Zelený D. & Lin P.-Y. (2020): Using tea bags to estimate the rate of soil organic matter decomposition in a Taiwanese forest. IAVS Bulletin, 2020/3, 31-33. https://doi.org/10.21570/BUL-202003-5, pdf, video from the field
• Chao A., Kubota Y., Zelený D., Chiu C.-H., Li C.-F., Kusumoto B., Yasuhara M., Thorn S., Wei C.-L., Costello M.J. & Colwell R.K. (2020): Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages. Ecological Research, 35, 292–314. https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.12102
• Zelený D. (2018): Which results of the standard test for community weighted mean approach are too optimistic? Journal of Vegetation Science 29: 953–966. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12688, read-only pdf, preprint on BioRxiv, Plain language summary on vegsciblog.org, blog post on blog.davidzeleny.net