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Björn D. Lindahl is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research spans multiple areas within agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science, focusing on subfields such as plant science, insect science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and cell biology.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Forest Management and Policy

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Björn D. Lindahl include:

  • "FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles" (2020) published in Fungal Diversity
  • "The UNITE database for molecular identification and taxonomic communication of fungi and other eukaryotes: sequences, taxa and classifications reconsidered" (2023) published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages" (2022) published in Cell
  • "The Taxon Hypothesis Paradigm-On the Unambiguous Detection and Communication of Taxa" (2020) published in Microorganisms
  • "A group of ectomycorrhizal fungi restricts organic matter accumulation in boreal forest" (2021) published in Ecology Letters

Björn has frequently published in venues such as:

  • New Phytologist
  • Journal of Ecology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Fungal Diversity
  • Ecology Letters

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Karina E. Clemmensen
  • Joachim Strengbom
  • Gustaf Granath
  • Karolina Jörgensen
  • Stefano Manzoni

Best Publications

  • Towards a unified paradigm for sequence-based identification of fungi

    Urmas Koljalg;Urmas Koljalg;R. Henrik Nilsson;Kessy Abarenkov;Leho Tedersoo

  • New primers to amplify the fungal ITS2 region – evaluation by 454‐sequencing of artificial and natural communities

    Katarina Ihrmark;Inga T.M. Bödeker;Karelyn Cruz-Martinez;Hanna Friberg

  • Roots and associated fungi drive long-term carbon sequestration in boreal forest.

    Karina Clemmensen;Adam Bahr;Otso Ovaskainen;Anders Dahlberg

  • Spatial separation of litter decomposition and mycorrhizal nitrogen uptake in a boreal forest

    Björn D. Lindahl;Katarina Ihrmark;Johanna Boberg;Susan E. Trumbore

  • FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles

    Sergei Põlme;Sergei Põlme;Kessy Abarenkov;R. Henrik Nilsson;Björn D. Lindahl

  • Fungal community analysis by high-throughput sequencing of amplified markers - a user's guide

    Björn D. Lindahl;R. Henrik Nilsson;Leho Tedersoo;Kessy Abarenkov

  • Ectomycorrhizal fungi – potential organic matter decomposers, yet not saprotrophs

    Björn D. Lindahl;Anders Tunlid

  • Carbon sequestration is related to mycorrhizal fungal community shifts during long-term succession in boreal forests.

    Karina E. Clemmensen;Roger D. Finlay;Anders Dahlberg;Jan Stenlid

  • Ectomycorrhizal Cortinarius species participate in enzymatic oxidation of humus in northern forest ecosystems.

    Inga T. M. Bödeker;Karina E. Clemmensen;Wietse de Boer;Francis Martin

  • Archaeorhizomycetes: Unearthing an Ancient Class of Ubiquitous Soil Fungi

    Anna Rosling;Filipa Cox;Karelyn Cruz-Martinez;Katarina Ihrmark

  • Shift in fungal communities and associated enzyme activities along an age gradient of managed Pinus sylvestris stands

    Julia Kyaschenko;Karina E Clemmensen;Andreas Hagenbo;Erik Karltun

  • Mycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungal guilds compete for the same organic substrates but affect decomposition differently

    Inga T. M. Bödeker;Björn D. Lindahl;Åke Olson;Karina E. Clemmensen

  • Disruption of root carbon transport into forest humus stimulates fungal opportunists at the expense of mycorrhizal fungi.

    B.D. Lindahl;W. De Boer;R.D. Finlay

  • Comparative genomics and transcriptomics depict ericoid mycorrhizal fungi as versatile saprotrophs and plant mutualists

    Elena Martino;Elena Martino;Emmanuelle Morin;Gwen‐Aëlle Grelet;Alan Kuo

  • Priority effects during fungal community establishment in beech wood

    Jennifer Hiscox;Melanie Savoury;Carsten Theodor Muller;Björn D. Lindahl

  • Millions of reads, thousands of taxa: microbial community structure and associations analyzed via marker genes

    Miklós Bálint;Mohammad Bahram;Mohammad Bahram;A. Murat Eren;A. Murat Eren;Karoline Faust

  • Production of ectomycorrhizal mycelium peaks during canopy closure in Norway spruce forests.

    Håkan Wallander;Ulf Johansson;Erica Sterkenburg;Mikael Brandström Durling

  • ClassII peroxidase-encoding genes are present in a phylogenetically wide range of ectomycorrhizal fungi

    Inga T M Bödeker;Cajsa M R Nygren;Andy F S Taylor;Åke Olson

  • Fungal identification biases in microbiome projects

    Leho Tedersoo;Björn Lindahl

  • Translocation of 32P between interacting mycelia of a wood‐decomposing fungus and ectomycorrhizal fungi in microcosm systems

    Björn Lindahl;Jan Stenlid;Stefan Olsson;Roger Finlay

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger D. Finlay
Roger D. Finlay Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Jan Stenlid
Jan Stenlid Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Leho Tedersoo
Leho Tedersoo University of Tartu
Urmas Kõljalg
Urmas Kõljalg University of Tartu
Anders Dahlberg
Anders Dahlberg Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Mohammad Bahram
Mohammad Bahram Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Stefano Manzoni
Stefano Manzoni Stockholm University
David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle Umeå University
R. Henrik Nilsson
R. Henrik Nilsson University of Gothenburg
Alf Ekblad
Alf Ekblad Örebro University

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