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Einar Heegaard is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research in Norway. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Insect Science.

The main research topics of Heegaard include lichen and fungal ecology, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, as well as botany and plant ecology studies.

Heegaard's recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Altitudinal upwards shifts in fungal fruiting in the Alps, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Substrate affinities of wood decay fungi are foremost structured by wood properties not climate, 2023, Fungal Ecology
  • European mushroom assemblages are phylogenetically structured by temperature, 2022, Ecography
  • Diversity patterns in high-latitude grasslands, 2022, Applied Vegetation Science

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Håvard Kauserud
  • Carrie Andrew
  • Jeffrey M. Diez
  • Irmgard Krisai-Greilhüber
  • Beatrice Senn-Irlet

Heegaard publishes in multiple scientific venues with a concentration in areas related to ecology and environmental studies. These venues include:

  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Fungal Ecology
  • Ecography
  • Applied Vegetation Science

Best Publications

  • Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis

    S. Dray;Raphaël Pélissier;Raphaël Pélissier;Pierre Couteron;M. J. Fortin

  • 21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

    Robin Engler;Christophe F. Randin;Wilfried Thuiller;Stefan Dullinger

  • All age–depth models are wrong: but how badly?

    R.J. Telford;E. Heegaard;E. Heegaard;H.J.B. Birks;H.J.B. Birks;H.J.B. Birks

  • Rapid oceanic and atmospheric changes during the Younger Dryas cold period

    Jostein Bakke;Jostein Bakke;Øyvind Lie;Einar Heegaard;Einar Heegaard;Trond Dokken

  • Climate variation effects on fungal fruiting

    Lynne Boddy;Ulf Büntgen;Ulf Büntgen;Simon Egli;Alan C. Gange

  • Comparing palaeolimnological and instrumental evidence of climate change for remote mountain lakes over the last 200 years

    Richard W. Battarbee;John-Arvid Grytnes;Roy Thompson;Peter G. Appleby

  • Species–environmental relationships of aquatic macrophytes in Northern Ireland

    Einar Heegaard;Hilary H Birks;Hilary H Birks;Chris E Gibson;Steven J Smith

  • Species richness of vascular plants, bryophytes, and lichens along an altitudinal gradient in western Norway

    John Arvid Grytnes;Einar Heegaard;Per G. Ihlen

  • Managing heterogeneity: the importance of grazing and environmental variation on post-fire succession in heathlands

    Vigdis Vandvik;Einar Heegaard;Einar Heegaard;Inger Elisabeth Måren;Per Arild Aarrestad

  • Warming-induced shift in European mushroom fruiting phenology

    Håvard Kauserud;Einar Heegaard;Ulf Büntgen;Ulf Büntgen;Rune Halvorsen

  • Climate change and spring-fruiting fungi.

    Håvard Kauserud;Einar Heegaard;Einar Heegaard;Mikhail A. Semenov;Lynne Boddy

  • What is the observed relationship between species richness and productivity? Commentary. Author's reply

    Robert J. Whittaker;Einar Heegaard;Gary G. Mittelbach;Samuel M. Scheiner

  • Seasonal trends in the biomass and structure of bryophyte-associated fungal communities explored by 454 pyrosequencing

    Marie L. Davey;Marie L. Davey;Einar Heegaard;Rune Halvorsen;Mikael Ohlson

  • The outer border and central border for species–environmental relationships estimated by non-parametric generalised additive models

    Einar Heegaard

  • Amplicon-pyrosequencing-based detection of compositional shifts in bryophyte-associated fungal communities along an elevation gradient

    Marie L. Davey;Marie L. Davey;Einar Heegaard;Rune Halvorsen;Håvard Kauserud

  • Mushroom's spore size and time of fruiting are strongly related: is moisture important?

    Håvard Kauserud;Einar Heegaard;Rune Halvorsen;Lynne Boddy

  • Long-Term Effects of Reclamation Treatments on Plant Succession in Iceland

    Jarngerdur Gretarsdottir;Asa L. Aradottir;Vigdis Vandvik;Einar Heegaard

  • A model of alpine species distribution in relation to snowmelt time and altitude

    Einar Heegaard

  • Climate change affects the outcome of competitive interactions-an application of principal response curves.

    Einar Heegaard;Vigdis Vandvik

  • Aquatic Biota and the Detection of Climate Change: Are there Consistent Aquatic Ecotones?

    E. Heegaard;A. F. Lotter;H. J. B. Birks

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Håvard Kauserud
Håvard Kauserud University of Oslo
Lynne Boddy
Lynne Boddy Cardiff University
Claus Bässler
Claus Bässler Goethe University Frankfurt
Alan C. Gange
Alan C. Gange Royal Holloway University of London
John-Arvid Grytnes
John-Arvid Grytnes Norwegian University of Life Sciences
H. J. B. Birks
H. J. B. Birks University of Bergen
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen University of Copenhagen
Thomas W. Kuyper
Thomas W. Kuyper Wageningen University & Research
Jeffrey M. Diez
Jeffrey M. Diez University of California, Riverside

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