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Silvertown, Jonathan (2009). An orchard invisible. A natural history of seeds. Chicago, USA & London, UK: Chicago University Press.

Silvertown, Jonathan (2005). Demons in Eden: the paradox of plant diversity. Chicago, USA: Chicago University Press.

Guo, Danni; Arnolds, Judith L.; Midgley, Guy F.; Araya, Yoseph N.; Silvertown, Jonathan and Musil, Charles F. (2021). Determination of Hydrological Niche of Restionaceae Species in Silvermine, South Africa. In: Lo, Kwong Fai Andrew ed. Current Advances in Geography, Environment and Earth Science, Volume 1. B P International, pp. 1–12.

Guo, Danni; Arnolds, Julie; Midgley, Guy; Araya, Yoseph; Silvertown, Jonathan and Musil, Charles (2021). Study on Climate Change Impacts on Restionaceae Species in Jonkershoek, South Africa. In: Andrew Lo, Kwong-Fai ed. Current Advances in Geography, Environment and Earth Science, Volume 1. West Bengal, India / London, UK: B P International, pp. 13–27.

Araya, Y. N.; Silvertown, J.; Linder, H. P; Gowing, D. J.; Midgley, G. F. and McConway, K. J. (2008). Evolution of hydrological niches in Restionaceae: a project update. In: Mucina, L.; Kalwij, J. M.; Smith, V. R.; Chytry, M.; White, P. S.; Cilliers, S. S.; Pillar, V. D.; Zobel, M. and Sun, I-Fang eds. Frontiers of Vegetation Science - An evolutionary angle. Somerset West: Keith Phillips Images, pp. 15–16.

Tilman, D.; Dodd, M. E.; Silvertown, J.; Poulton, P. R.; Johnston, A. E. and Crawley, M. J. (1994). The park grass experiment - insights from the most long-term ecological study. In: Leigh, R. A. and Johnston, A. E. eds. Long-term Experiments in Agricultural and Ecological Science. Wallingford, Oxon., UK: CAB International, pp. 287–303.

Guo, Danni; Midgley, Guy F.; Araya, Yoseph N.; Silvertown, Jonathan and Musil, Charles F. (2016). Climate Change Impacts on Hydrological Niches of Restionaceae Species in Jonkershoek, South Africa. Journal of Water Resource & Hydraulic Engineering, 5(1) pp. 20–28.

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Silvertown, Jonathan; Harvey, Martin; Greenwood, Richard; Dodd, Michael; Rosewell, Jonathan; Rebelo, Tony; Ansine, Janice and McConway, Kevin (2015). Crowdsourcing the identification of organisms: a case-study of iSpot. ZooKeys, 480 pp. 125–146.

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Silvertown, Jonathan; Araya, Yoseph and Gowing, David (2015). Hydrological niches in terrestrial plant communities: a review. Journal of Ecology, 103(1) pp. 93–108.

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Araya, Yoseph N.; Silvertown, Jonathan; Gowing, David J.; McConway, Kevin J.; Linder, H. P. and Midgley, Guy (2012). Do niche-structured plant communities exhibit phylogenetic conservatism? A test case in an endemic clade. Journal of Ecology, 100(6) pp. 1434–1439.

Worthington, Jenny; Silvertown, Jonathan; Cook, Laurence; Cameron, Robert; Dodd, Mike; Greenwood, Richard; McConway, Kevin and Skelton, Peter (2012). Evolution MegaLab: a case study in citizen science methods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3(2) pp. 303–309.

Freeland, Joanna R.; Biss, Pamela and Silvertown, Jonathan (2012). Contrasting patterns of pollen and seed flow influence the spatial genetic structure of sweet vernal grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum) populations. Journal of Heredity, 103(1) pp. 28–35.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Araya, Yoseph N.; Linder, H. Peter and Gowing, David J. (2012). Experimental investigation of the origin of fynbos plant community structure after fire. Annals of Botany, 110(7) pp. 1377–1383.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Cook, Laurence; Cameron, Robert; Dodd, Michael; McConway, Kevin; Worthington, Jennifer; Skelton, Peter; Anton, Christian; Bossdorf, Oliver; Baur, Bruno; Schilthuizen, Menno; Fontaine, Benoît; Sattmann, Helmut; Bertorelle, Giorgio; Correira, Maria; Oliveira, Cristina; Pokryszko, Beata; Ozgo, Malgorzata; Stalažs, Arturs; Gill, Eoin; Rammul, Üllar; Sólymos, Péter; Féher, Soltan and Juan, Xavier (2011). Citizen science reveals unexpected continental-scale evolutionary change in a model organism. PLoS ONE, 6(4), article no. e18927.

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Araya, Yoseph N.; Silvertown, Jonathan; Gowing, David J.; McConway, Kevin J.; Linder, H. Peter and Midgley, Guy (2011). A fundamental, eco-hydrological basis for niche segregation in plant communities. New Phytologist, 189(1) pp. 253–258.

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Araya, Yoseph; Silvertown, Jonathan; Gowing, David; McConway, Kevin; Linder, Peter and Midgley, Guy (2010). Variation in δ¹³C among species and sexes in the family Restionaceae along a fine-scale hydrological gradient. Austral Ecology, 35(7) pp. 818–824.

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Silvertown, Jonathan; Tallowin, Jerry; Stevens, Carly; Power, Sally A.; Morgan, Vicky; Emmett, Bridget; Hester, Alison; Grime, Philip J.; Morecroft, Michael; Buxton, Robin; Poulton, Paul; Jinks, Richard and Bardgett, Richard (2010). Environmental myopia: a diagnosis and a remedy. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 25(10) pp. 556–561.

Freeland, J. R.; Biss, P.; Conrad, K. F. and Silvertown, J. (2010). Selection pressures have caused genome-wide population differentiation of Anthoxanthum odoratum despite the potential for high gene flow. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23(4) pp. 776–782.

Bartelheimer, Maik; Gowing, David and Silvertown, Jonathan (2010). Explaining hydrological niches: the decisive role of below-ground competition in two closely related Senecio species. Journal of Ecology, 98(1) pp. 126–136.

Silvertown, Jonathan (2009). A new dawn for citizen science. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 24(9) pp. 467–471.

Silvertown, Jonathan (2009). Community genetics: resource addition has opposing effects on genetic and species diversity in a 150-year experiment. Ecology Letters, 12(2) pp. 165–170.

Silvertown, Jonathan (2008). The evolutionary maintenance of sexual reproduction: evidence from the ecological distribution of asexual reproduction in clonal plants. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 169(1) pp. 157–168.

Fréville, Hélène; McConway, Kevin; Dodd, Mike and Silvertown, Jonathan (2007). Prediction of extinction in plants: interaction of extrinsic threats and life history traits. Ecology, 88(10) pp. 2662–2672.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Poulton, Paul; Johnston, Edward; Edwards, Grant; Heard, Matthew and Biss, Pamela M. (2006). The Park Grass Experiment 1856 - 2006: Its Contribution to Ecology. Journal of Ecology, 94(4) pp. 801–814.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Dodd, Mike; Gowing, David; Lawson, Clare and McConway, Kevin (2006). Phylogeny and the hierarchical organization of plant diversity. Ecology, 87(7, Sup) S39-S49.

Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin; Gowing, David; Dodd, Mike; Fay, Michael F.; Joseph, Jeffrey A. and Dolphin, Konrad (2006). Absence of phylogenetic signal in the niche structure of meadow plant communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273(1582) pp. 39–44.

Silvertown, J.; Servaes, C.; Biss, P. and Macleod, D. (2005). Reinforcement of reproductive isolation between adjacent populations in the Park Grass Experiment. Heredity, 95(3) pp. 198–205.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Francisco-Ortega, Javier and Carine, Mark (2005). The monophyly of island radiations: an evaluation of niche pre-emption and some alternative explanations. Journal of Ecology, 93(4) pp. 653–657.

Crawley, M.J.; Johnston, A.E.; Silvertown, J.; Dodd, M.; de Mazancourt, C.; Heard, M.S.; Henman, D.F. and Edwards, G.R. (2005). Determinants of species richness in the Park Grass experiment. American Naturalist, 165(2) pp. 179–192.

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Fréville, Hélène and Silvertown, Jonathan (2005). Analysis of interspecific competition in perennial plants using life table response experiments. Plant Ecology, 176(1) pp. 69–78.

Silvertown, Jonathan (2004). Plant coexistence and the niche. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 19(11) pp. 605–611.

Silvertown, Jonathan (2004). Sustainability in a nutshell. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 19(6) pp. 276–278.

Franco, Miguel and Silvertown, Jonathan (2004). A Comparative demography of plants based upon elasticities of vital rates. Ecology, 85(2) pp. 531–538.

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Silvertown, Jonathan (2004). The ghost of competition past in the phylogeny of island endemic plants. Journal of Ecology, 92(1) pp. 168–173.

Biss, Pamela; Freeland, Joanna; Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin and Lutman, Peter (2003). Successful amplification of rice chloroplast microsatellites from century-old grass samples from the Park Grass Experiment. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 21(3) pp. 249–257.

Silvertown, Jonathan and Bullock, James M. (2003). Do seedlings in gaps interact? A field test of assumptions in ESS seed size models. Oikos, 101(3) pp. 499–504.

Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin J.; Hughes, Zoe; Biss, Pamela; Macnair, Mark and Lutman, Peter (2002). Ecological and genetic correlates of long-term population trends in the Park Grass Experiment. American Naturalist, 160(4) pp. 409–420.

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Silvertown, Jonathan; Dodd, Mike and Gowing, David (2001). Phylogeny and the niche structure of meadow plant communities. Journal of Ecology, 89(3) pp. 428–435.

Dodd, Mike E. and Silvertown, Jonathan (2000). Size-specific fecundity and the influence of lifetime size variation upon effective population size in Abies balsamea. Heredity, 85(6) pp. 604–609.

Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin J.; Dodd, Mike and Chase, Mark W. (2000). "Flexibility" as a trait and methodological issues in species diversity variation among angiosperm families. Evolution, 54(3) pp. 1066–1068.

Silvertown, Jonathan and Dodd, Mike (1999). The demographic cost of reproduction and its consequences in balsam fir (Abies balsamea). American Naturalist, 154(3) pp. 321–332.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Dodd, Mike; Gowing, David J. and Mountford, J. Owen (1999). Hydrologically defined niches reveal a basis for species richness in plant communities. nature, 400(6739) pp. 61–63.

Dodd, Michael E.; Silvertown, Jonathan and Chase, Mark W. (1999). Phylogenetic analysis of trait evolution and species diversity variation among angiosperm families. Evolution, 53(3) pp. 732–744.

Silvertown, Jonathan and Dodd, Mike (1999). Evolution of life history in balsam fir (Abies balsamea) in subalpine forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 266(1420) pp. 729–733.

Silvertown, Jonathan and McConway, Kevin J. (1997). Opinion: Does "publication bias" lead to biased science? Oikos, 79(1) pp. 167–168.

Silvertown, Jonathan and Dodd, Mike (1996). Comparing plants and connecting traits. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 351(1345) pp. 1233–1239.

Wilson, J. Bastow; Wells, Terry C. E.; Trueman, Ian C.; Jones, Grant; Atkinson, M. D.; Crawley, Mick J.; Dodd, Mike E. and Silvertown, Jonathan (1996). Are there assembly rules for plant species abundance? An investigation in relation to soil resources and successional trends. Journal of Ecology, 84(4) pp. 527–538.

Wilson, J. Bastow; Crawley, Mick J.; Dodd, Mike E. and Silvertown, Jonathan (1996). Evidence for constraint on species coexistence in vegetation of the Park Grass experiment. Plant Ecology (Vegetatio), 124(2) pp. 183–190.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Dodd, Mike; McConway, Kevin; Crawley, Mick and Potts, Jaqueline (1995). Species diversity and stability in grassland. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 10(7) pp. 287–288.

Dodd, Mike; Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin; Potts, Jacqueline and Crawley, Mick (1995). community stability - a 60-year record of trends and outbreaks in the occurrence of species in the park grass experiment. Journal of Ecology, 83(2) pp. 277–285.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Dodd, Mike E.; McConway, Kevin; Potts, Jacqueline and Crawley, Mick (1994). Rainfall, biomass variation, and community composition in the Park Grass Experiment. Ecology, 75(8) pp. 2430–2437.

Dodd, Mike E.; Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin; Potts, Jacqueline and Crawley, Mick (1994). Stability in the plant communities of the Park Grass Experiment: the relationships between species richness, soil pH and biomass variability. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 346(1316) pp. 185–193.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Wells, Derek A.; Gillman, Mike; Dodd, Mike; Robertson, Heather and Lakhani, Ken H. (1994). short-term effects and long-term after-effects of fertilizer application on the flowering population of green-winged orchid Orchis morio. Biological Conservation, 69(2) pp. 191–197.

Dodd, Mike; Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin; Potts, Jacqueline and Crawley, Mick (1994). Application of the British national vegetation classification to the communities of the park grass experiment through time. Folia Geobotanica, 29(3) pp. 321–334.

Silvertown, J.; Franco, M. and McConway, K. (1992). A demographic interpretation of Grime's triangle. Functional Ecology, 6(2) pp. 130–136.