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Ann-Kristin Bergström

Ann-Kristin Bergström

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
42
Citations
8210
World Ranking
5504
National Ranking
134

Overview

Ann-Kristin Bergström is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research covers multiple subfields, including environmental chemistry, oceanography, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and global and planetary change.

The primary topics in Bergström's research focus on marine and coastal ecosystems, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, soil and water nutrient dynamics, fish ecology and management studies, isotope analysis in ecology, water quality monitoring and analysis, and freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology.

Frequent publication venues for Bergström include:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Ecosystems
  • Remote Sensing

Among Bergström's most recent papers are:

  • Global changes may be promoting a rise in select cyanobacteria in nutrient-poor northern lakes (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Trade-offs Between Light and Nutrient Availability Across Gradients of Dissolved Organic Carbon Lead to Spatially and Temporally Variable Responses of Lake Phytoplankton Biomass to Browning (2021, Ecosystems)
  • Lowered nutritional quality of plankton caused by global environmental changes (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Large-Scale Retrieval of Coloured Dissolved Organic Matter in Northern Lakes Using Sentinel-2 Data (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • Does browning affect the identity of limiting nutrients in lakes? (2020, Aquatic Sciences)

Key frequent co-authors in Bergström's work include:

  • Anders Jönsson
  • Irena F. Creed
  • Peter D. F. Isles
  • Isolde Callisto Puts
  • Danny C. P. Lau

Bergström's research often addresses complex interactions within aquatic systems, especially focusing on nutrient dynamics and the effects of environmental changes such as browning and global change on ecosystems. The work integrates remote sensing technology for monitoring aquatic environments and investigates phytoplankton and plankton nutritional quality in relation to shifting environmental factors.

Best Publications

  • Shifts in Lake N:P Stoichiometry and Nutrient Limitation Driven by Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition

    James J. Elser;Tom Andersen;Jill S. Baron;Ann Kristin Bergström

  • Atmospheric nitrogen deposition has caused nitrogen enrichment and eutrophication of lakes in the northern hemisphere

    Ann-Kristin Bergström;Mats Jansson

  • Role of lakes for organic carbon cycling in the boreal zone

    Grete Algesten;Sebastian Sobek;Ann-Kristin Bergström;Anneli Ågren

  • The catchment and climate regulation of pCO2 in boreal lakes

    Sebastian Sobek;Grete Algesten;Ann-Kristin Bergström;Mats Jansson

  • Allochthonous organic carbon and phytoplankton/bacterioplankton production relationships in lakes

    Mats Jansson;Ann-Kristin Bergström;Peter Blomqvist;Stina Drakare

  • Global change-driven effects on dissolved organic matter composition : Implications for food webs of northern lakes

    Irena F. Creed;Ann Kristin Bergström;Charles G. Trick;Nancy B. Grimm

  • The influence of dissolved organic carbon on primary production in northern lakes

    David A. Seekell;Jean‐François Lapierre;Jenny Ask;Ann‐Kristin Bergström

  • Nutrient limitation of bacterioplankton, autotrophic and mixotrophic phytoplankton, and heterotrophic nanoflagellates in Lake Örträsket

    Mats Jansson;Peter Blomqvist;Anders Jonsson;Ann Kristin Bergstrom

  • Whole-lake mineralization of allochthonous and autochthonous organic carbon in a large humic lake (Örträsket, N. Sweden)

    Anders Jonsson;Markus Meili;Ann-Kristin Bergström;Mats Jansson

  • The use of TN:TP and DIN:TP ratios as indicators for phytoplankton nutrient limitation in oligotrophic lakes affected by N deposition

    Ann-Kristin Bergström

  • Effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on nutrient limitation and phytoplankton biomass in unproductive Swedish lakes

    Ann-Kristin Bergström;Peter Blomqvist;Mats Jansson

  • Lake secondary production fueled by rapid transfer of low molecular weight organic carbon from terrestrial sources to aquatic consumers

    Martin Berggren;Lena Ström;Hjalmar Laudon;Jan Karlsson

  • Integrating aquatic carbon fluxes in a boreal catchment carbon budget

    Anders Jonsson;Grete Algesten;Ann-Kristin Bergström;Kevin Bishop

  • External control of bacterial community structure in lakes

    Eva S. Lindström;Eva S. Lindström;Markus Forslund;Grete Algesten;Ann-Kristin Bergström

  • Terrestrial organic matter input suppresses biomass production in lake ecosystems

    Jan Karlsson;Ann Kristin Bergström;Pär Byström;Cristian Gudasz

  • Phytoplankton responses to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment in unproductive Swedish lakes along a gradient of atmospheric nitrogen deposition

    Ann-Kristin Bergström;Anders Jonsson;Mats Jansson

  • Light and nutrient control phytoplankton biomass responses to global change in northern lakes

    Ann-Kristin Bergström;Jan Karlsson

  • Effects of Additions of DOC on Pelagic Biota in a Clearwater System: Results from a Whole Lake Experiment in Northern Sweden.

    Peter Blomqvist;Mats Jansson;Stina Drakare;Ann-Kristin Bergström

  • Nutrient limitation of bacterioplankton and phytoplankton in humic lakes in northern Sweden

    Mats Jansson;Ann-Kristin Bergström;Stina Drakare;Peter Blomqvist

  • Bacterioplankton Production in Humic Lake Örträsket in Relation to Input of Bacterial Cells and Input of Allochthonous Organic Carbon.

    Ann-Kristin Bergström;Mats Jansson

Frequent Co-Authors

Mats Jansson
Mats Jansson Umeå University
Jan Karlsson
Jan Karlsson Umeå University
Irena F. Creed
Irena F. Creed University of Toronto
Sebastian Sobek
Sebastian Sobek Uppsala University
Lars J. Tranvik
Lars J. Tranvik Uppsala University
Reiner Giesler
Reiner Giesler Umeå University
Eva S. Lindström
Eva S. Lindström Uppsala University
Ryan A. Sponseller
Ryan A. Sponseller Umeå University
Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Tiit Kutser
Tiit Kutser University of Tartu

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