By Dr Daniel Stein Falster

Preprints

Wenk E; Falster D; Wright I; Westoby M, 2026, Nutrient currencies and P resorption greatly amplify the perceived costs of reproductive allocation in perennial heath shrubs, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.10.731282

O'Brien T; Moores M; Warton D; Falster D, 2025, Here Be Dragons: Bimodal posteriors arise from numerical integration error in longitudinal models, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2502.11510

O’Brien T; Kar F; Warton D; Falster D, 2025, hmde: Hierarchical Methods for Differential Equations, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.15.633280

Vesk P; Windecker S; Gallagher R; Morris W; Pollock L; Towers I; Falster D, 2025, Traits explain canopy tree occurrence along regional environmental gradients; a subset combine to be useful., http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.176432611.18386747/v1

Wenk E; Falster D; Abramowicz K; Westoby M, 2024, Is allocation among reproductive tissues coordinated with seed size?, http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.172114673.30654851/v1

Wenk E; Bal P; Coleman D; Gallagher R; Yang S; Falster D, 2024, traits.build: a data model, workflow and R package for building harmonised ecological trait databases, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.11.579848

O’Brien T; Warton D; Falster D, 2024, Yes, they’re all individuals: Hierarchical models from repeat measurement data improve estimates of tree growth and size, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.27.609830

McCarthy PX; Gong X; Eghbal S; Falster DS; Rizoiu M-A, 2021, Evolution of diversity and dominance of companies in online activity, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2003.07049

Gallagher R; Falster DS; Maitner B; Salguero-Gomez R; Vandvik V; Pearse W; Schneider F; Kattge J; Alroy J; Ankenbrand MJ; Andrew S; Balk M; Bland L; Boyle B; Bravo-Avila C; Brennan I; Carthey A; Catullo R; Cavazos B; Chown S; Fadrique B; Feng X; Halbritter AH; Hammock J; Hogan JA; Holewa H; Iversen C; Jochum M; Kearney M; Keller A; Mabee P; Madin J; Manning P; McCormack L; Michaletz S; Park D; Penone C; Perez T; Pineda-Munoz S; Poelen JH; Ray C; Rossetto M; Sauquet H; Sparrow B; Spasojevic MJ; Telford RJ; Tobias JA; Violle C; Walls R; Weiss KCB; Westoby M; Wright I; Enquist B, 2019, The Open Traits Network: Using Open Science principles to accelerate trait-based science across the Tree of Life, http://dx.doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/kac45

Falster D; FitzJohn RG; Pennell MW; Cornwell WK, 2017, Versioned data: why it is needed and how it can be achieved (easily and cheaply), http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3401v1

Wenk EH; Abramowicz K; Westoby M; Falster DS, 2017, Coordinated shifts in allocation among reproductive tissues across 14 coexisting plant species, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/141473

Falster DS; Towers IR; Vesk PA; Westoby M, A general framework explaining variation in plant economics traits with environment and through ontogeny, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.25.727577

Fischer FJ; Chave J; Zanne A; Jucker T; Fajardo A; Fayolle A; de Lima RAF; Vieilledent G; Beeckman H; Hubau W; De Mil T; Wallenus D; Aldana AM; Alvarez-Dávila E; Alves LF; Apgaua DMG; Arcanjo F; Bastin J-F; Bilous A; Birnbaum P; Blyshchyk V; Borah J; Boukili V; Camarero JJ; Casas L; Gatti RC; Chambers JQ; Fabiano EC; Choat B; Cifuentes E; Conti G; Coomes D; Cornwell W; Dar JA; Das AK; Dobler M; Dougabka D; Edwards DP; Eggli U; Evans R; Falster D; Fearnside P; Flores O; Fyllas N; Gérard J; Goodman RC; Guibal D; Henao-Diaz LF; Hervé V; Hietz P; Homeier J; Ibanez T; Ilic J; Jansen S; Kalita RM; Kenzo T; Kindermann L; Kothandaraman S; Kotowska M; Kubota Y; Langbour P; Lawson J; de Lima ALA; Link RM; Linstädter A; López R; Macinnis-Ng C; Magnago LFS; Martin AR; Matheny AM; McCarthy JK; Miller RB; Nath AJ; Nelson BW; Njana M; Nogueira EM; Oliveira A; Oliveira R; Olson M; Onoda Y; Paul K; Piotto D; Radtke P; Razafindratsima O; Ramananantoandro T; Read J; Richardson S; de la Riva EG; Rodríguez-Reyes O; Rolim SG; Rolo V; Rosell JA; Saatchi S; Salguero-Gómez R; Santini NS; Schuldt B; Schwendenmann L; Sellin A; Staples T; Stevenson PR; Sundarapandian S; van der Sande MT; Steege HT; Tao S; Thibaut B; Tng DYP; Torezan JMD; Villanueva B; Weiskittel A; Wells J; Wright SJ; Zieminska K; Zizka A, A global map of wood density, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.25.671920

Wenk E; Coleman D; Gallagher R; Falster D, A near-complete dataset of plant growth form, life history, and woodiness for all Australian plants, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.12.19.572473

Wenk E; Cornwell W; Fuchs A; Kar F; Monro A; Sauquet H; Stephens R; Falster DS, APCalign: an R package workflow and app for aligning and updating flora names to the Australian Plant Census, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.02.578715

Falster D; Gallagher R; Wenk E; Wright I; Indiarto D; Baxter C; Andrew SC; Lawson J; Allen S; Fuchs A; Adams MA; Ahrens CW; Alfonzetti M; Angevin T; Atkin OK; Auld T; Baker A; Bean A; Blackman CJ; Bloomfield K; Bowman D; Bragg J; Brodribb TJ; Buckton G; Burrows G; Caldwell E; Camac J; Carpenter R; Catford JA; Cawthray GR; Cernusak LA; Chandler G; Chapman AR; Cheal D; Cheesman AW; Chen S-C; Choat B; Clinton B; Clode P; Coleman H; Cornwell WK; Cosgrove M; Crisp M; Cross E; Crous KY; Cunningham S; Curtis E; Daws MI; DeGabriel JL; Denton MD; Dong N; Duan H; Duncan DH; Duncan RP; Duretto M; Dwyer JM; Edwards C; Esperon-Rodriguez M; Evans JR; Everingham SE; Firn J; Fonseca CR; French BJ; Frood D; Funk JL; Geange SR; Ghannoum O; Gleason SM; Gosper CR; Gray E; Groom PK; Gross C; Guerin G; Guja L; Hahs AK; Harrison MT; Hayes PE; Henery M; Hochuli D; Howell J; Huang G; Hughes L; Huisman J; Ilic J; Jagdish A; Jin D; Jordan G; Jurado E; Kasel S; Kellermann J; Kohout M; Kooyman RM; Kotowska MM; Lai HR; Laliberté E; Lambers H; Lamont BB; Lanfear R; van Langevelde F; Laughlin DC; Laugier-Kitchener B-A; Lehmann CER; Leigh A; Leishman MR; Lenz T; Lepschi B; Lewis JD; Lim F; Liu U; Lord J; Lusk CH; Macinnis-Ng C; McPherson H; Manea A; Mayfield M; McCarthy JK; Meers T; van der Merwe M; Metcalfe D; Milberg P; Mokany K; Moles AT; Moore BD; Moore N; Morgan JW; Morris W; Muir A; Munroe S; Nicholson Á; Nicolle D; Nicotra AB; Niinemets Ü; North T; O’Reilly-Nugent A; O’Sullivan OS; Oberle B; Onoda Y; Ooi MKJ; Osborne CP; Paczkowska G; Pekin B; Pereira CG; Pickering C; Pickup M; Pollock LJ; Poot P; Powell JR; Power SA; Prentice IC; Prior L; Prober SM; Read J; Reynolds V; Richards AE; Richardson B; Roderick ML; Rosell JA; Rossetto M; Rye B; Rymer PD; Sams MA; Sanson G; Schmidt S; Schulze E-D; Sendall K; Sinclair S; Smith B; Smith R; Soper F; Sparrow B; Standish R; Staples TL; Taseski G; Thomas F; Tissue DT; Tjoelker MG; Tng DYP; Tomlinson K; Turner NC; Veneklaas E; Venn S; Vesk P; Vlasveld C; Vorontsova MS; Warren C; Weerasinghe LK; Westoby M; White M; Williams N; Wills J; Wilson PG; Yates C; Zanne AE; Ziemińska K, AusTraits – a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.04.425314

Fischer FJ; Chave J; Zanne A; Jucker T; Fajardo A; Fayolle A; de Lima RAF; Vieilledent G; Beeckman H; Hubau W; De Mil T; Wallenus D; Aldana AM; Alvarez-Dávila E; Alves LF; Apgaua DMG; Arcanjo F; Bastin J-F; Bilous A; Birnbaum P; Blyshchyk V; Borah J; Boukili V; Camarero JJ; Casas L; Gatti RC; Chambers JQ; Fabiano EC; Choat B; Conti G; Cornwell W; Dar JA; Das AK; Dobler M; Dougabka D; Edwards DP; Evans R; Falster D; Fearnside P; Flores O; Fyllas N; Gérard J; Goodman RC; Guibal D; Henao-Diaz LF; Hervé V; Hietz P; Homeier J; Ibanez T; Ilic J; Jansen S; Kalita RM; Kenzo T; Kindermann L; Kothandaraman S; Kotowska M; Kubota Y; Langbour P; Lawson J; de Lima ALA; Link RM; Linstädter A; López R; Macinnis-Ng C; Magnago LFS; Martin AR; Matheny AM; McCarthy JK; Miller RB; Nath AJ; Nelson BW; Njana M; Nogueira EM; Oliveira A; Oliveira R; Olson M; Onoda Y; Paul K; Piotto D; Radtke P; Razafindratsima O; Ramananantoandro T; Read J; Richardson S; de la Riva EG; Rodríguez-Reyes O; Rolim SG; Rolo V; Rosell JA; Salguero-Gómez R; Santini NS; Schuldt B; Schwendenmann L; Sellin A; Staples T; Stevenson PR; Sundarapandian S; van der Sande MT; Thibaut B; Tng DYP; Torezan JMD; Villanueva B; Weiskittel A; Wells J; Wright SJ; Zieminska K, Beyond species means – the intraspecific contribution to global wood density variation, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.25.671896

Stephens RE; Sauquet H; Guerin GR; Jiang M; Falster D; Gallagher RV, Climate shapes flowering periods across plant communities, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.10.463841

Wenk EH; Cornwell WK; Stephens RE; Coleman D; Mesaglio T; Towers I; Yang S; Falster DS, Contrasting climate signals between native and introduced annual and perennial floras, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2026.07.31.741935

Towers IR; O’Reilly-Nugent A; Sabot MEB; Vesk PA; Falster DS, Explaining plant trait variation in response to soil water availability using an optimal height-growth model, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.23.576942

Stefaniak EZ; Tissue DT; Falster DS; Medlyn BE, Greater variability in environmental stress favours trees that prioritise storage of carbohydrate reserves over growth: a modelling analysis, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1474

Duursma RA; Falster DS, Leaf traits drive differences in biomass partitioning among major plant functional types, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/025361

Falster D; Brännström Å; Westoby M; Dieckmann U, Multi-trait eco-evolutionary dynamics explain niche diversity and evolved neutrality in forests, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/014605

Wenk EH; Falster D, Quantifying and understanding reproductive allocation schedules in plants: a lifetime of decisions, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/008508

Moles AT; Bonduriansky R; Bonser S; Falster DS; Nakagawa S; Andrew N; Lagisz M, Reciprocity: A transparent universal credit system to incentivize peer review, http://dx.doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/5qrmh_v1

Towers IR; Vesk PA; Wenk EH; Gallagher RV; Windecker SM; Wright IJ; Falster DS, Revisiting the role of mean annual precipitation in shaping functional trait distributions at a continental scale, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.29.546983

Zajitschek SRK; Zajitschek F; Bonduriansky R; Brooks RC; Cornwell W; Falster DS; Lagisz M; Mason J; Senior AM; Noble DAW; Nakagawa S, Sex and Power: sexual dimorphism in trait variability and its eco-evolutionary and statistical implications, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.23.106146

Keller A; Ankenbrand M; Bruelheide H; Dekeyzer S; Enquist BJ; Erfanian MB; Falster D; Gallagher RV; Hammock J; Kattge J; Leonhardt SD; Madin J; Maitner B; Neyret M; Onstein RE; Pearse WD; Poelen JH; Salguero-Gomez R; Schneider FD; Tóth AB; Penone C, Ten (mostly) simple rules to future-proof trait data in ecological and evolutionary sciences, http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.165854021.12539794/v1

Wenk EH; Sauquet H; Gallagher RV; Brownlee R; Boettiger C; Coleman D; Yang S; Auld T; Barrett R; Brodribb T; Choat B; Dun L; Ellsworth D; Gosper C; Guja L; Jordan GJ; Le Breton T; Leigh A; Lu-Irving P; Medlyn B; Nolan R; Ooi M; Sommerville KD; Vesk P; White M; Wright IJ; Falster DS, The AusTraits Plant Dictionary, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.16.545047

Jucker T; Fischer FJ; Chave J; Coomes DA; Caspersen J; Ali A; Panzou GJL; Feldpausch TR; Falster D; Usoltsev VA; Jackson TD; Adu-Bredu S; Alves LF; Aminpour M; Angoboy IB; Anten NPR; Antin C; Askari Y; Muñoz R; Ayyappan N; Banin L; Barbier N; Battles JJ; Beeckman H; Bocko YE; Bond-Lamberty B; Bongers F; Bowers S; van Breugel M; Chantrain A; Chaudhary R; Dai J; Dalponte M; Dimobe K; Domec J-C; Doucet J-L; Rada JMD; Duursma RA; Enríquez M; van Ewijk KY; Farfán-Rios W; Fayolle A; Ferretti M; Forni E; Forrester DI; Gilani H; Godlee JL; Haeni M; Hall JS; He J-K; Hemp A; Hernández-Stefanoni JL; Higgins SI; Holdaway RJ; Hussain K; Hutley LB; Ichie T; Iida Y; Jiang H-S; Joshi PR; Kaboli H; Larsary MK; Kenzo T; Kloeppel BD; Kohyama T; Kunwar S; Kuyah S; Kvasnica J; Lin S; Lines ER; Liu H; Lorimer C; Loumeto J-J; Malhi Y; Marshall PL; Mattsson E; Matula R; Meave JA; Mensah S; Mi X; Momo ST; Moncrieff GR; Mora F; Nissanka SP; Hajar ZSN; O’Hara KL; Pearce S; Pelissier R; Peri PL; Ploton P; Poorter L; Pour MJ; Pourbabaei H; Ribeiro SC; Ryan C; Sanaei A; Sanger J; Schlund M; Sellan G; Shenkin A; Sonké B; Sterck FJ; Svátek M; Takagi K; Trugman AT; Vadeboncoeur MA; Valipour A; Vanderwel MC; Vovides AG; Waldner P; Wang W; Wang L-Q; Wirth C; Woods M; Xiang W; de Aquino Ximenes F; Xu Y; Yamada T; Zavala MA; Zimmermann NE, The global spectrum of tree crown architecture, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.14.613032

Falster DS; Duursma RA; FitzJohn RG, Trajectories: how functional traits influence plant growth and shade tolerance across the life-cycle, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/083451

Camac JS; Condit R; FitzJohn RG; McCalman L; Steinberg D; Westoby M; Wright SJ; Falster DS, Unifying intra- and inter-specific variation in tropical tree mortality, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/228361

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