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Erland Bååth

Erland Bååth

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Plant Science and Agronomy
Sweden
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
104
Citations
48590
World Ranking
128
National Ranking
1

Erland Bååth publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Erland Bååth sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 241 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Erland Bååth D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Erland Bååth sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 104 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Erland Bååth is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and conducts research primarily within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several interconnected fields, including Ecology, Pollution, Soil Science, Insect Science, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's research focuses on multiple topics, reflecting a broad engagement with microbial ecology and environmental processes. Main topics include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Heavy metals in environment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Erland Bååth are:

  • David Fernández-Calviño
  • Johannes Rousk
  • Andrew T. Nottingham
  • Patrick Meir
  • Manuel Arias-Estévez

They have published extensively in several scientific journals. The most common publication venues include:

  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Biology and Fertility of Soils
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Functional Ecology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Erland Bååth are:

  • Microbial diversity declines in warmed tropical soil and respiration rise exceed predictions as communities adapt, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • Temperature adaptation of soil microbial respiration in alpine, boreal and tropical soils: An application of the square root (Ratkowsky) model, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Fatty acid 16:1ω5 as a proxy for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal biomass: current challenges and ways forward, 2022, Biology and Fertility of Soils
  • Soil carbon and microbes in the warming tropics, 2022, Functional Ecology
  • Comparing temperature sensitivity of bacterial growth in Antarctic marine water and soil, 2020, Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil.

    Johannes Rousk;Erland Bååth;Philip C Brookes;Christian L Lauber

  • The use of phospholipid fatty acid analysis to estimate bacterial and fungal biomass in soil

    A. Frostegård;E. Bååth

  • Contrasting Soil pH Effects on Fungal and Bacterial Growth Suggest Functional Redundancy in Carbon Mineralization

    Johannes Rousk;Philip C. Brookes;Erland Bååth

  • Phospholipid Fatty Acid composition, biomass, and activity of microbial communities from two soil types experimentally exposed to different heavy metals.

    Å. Frostegård;A. Tunlid;E. Bååth

  • Shifts in the structure of soil microbial communities in limed forests as revealed by phospholipid fatty acid analysis

    Å. Frostegård;E. Bååth;A. Tunlio

  • Comparison of soil fungal/bacterial ratios in a pH gradient using physiological and PLFA-based techniques

    E. Baath;Traute-Heidi Anderson

  • Effects of heavy metals in soil on microbial processes and populations (a review)

    E. Bååth

  • Use and misuse of PLFA measurements in soils

    Åsa Frostegård;Anders Tunlid;Erland Bååth

  • Microbial biomass measured as total lipid phosphate in soils of different organic content

    Å. Frostegård;A. Tunlid;E. Bååth

  • Comparison of temperature effects on soil respiration and bacterial and fungal growth rates.

    Janna Pietikäinen;Marie Pettersson;Erland Bååth

  • Ecosystem response of pasture soil communities to fumigation-induced microbial diversity reductions: an examination of the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship

    B. S. Griffiths;K. Ritz;Richard D. Bardgett;Roger Cook

  • Microbial community structure and pH response in relation to soil organic matter quality in wood-ash fertilized, clear-cut or burned coniferous forest soils

    Erland Bååth;Åsa Frostegård;Taina Pennanen;Hannu Fritze

  • Estimation of the biomass and seasonal growth of external mycelium of ectomycorrhizal fungi in the field

    Håkan Wallander;Lars Ola Nilsson;David Hagerberg;Erland Bååth

  • Comparison of factors limiting bacterial growth in different soils

    Fredrik Dernoling;Daniela Figueroa;Erland Bååth

  • The use of phospholipid and neutral lipid fatty-acids to estimate biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in soil

    Pål Axel Olsson;Erland Bååth;Iver Jakobsen;Bengt Söderström

  • Metal toxicity affects fungal and bacterial activities in soil differently.

    R M C P Rajapaksha;R M C P Rajapaksha;M A Tobor-Kaplon;M A Tobor-Kaplon;Erland Bååth

  • Phospholipid Fatty Acid Composition and Heavy Metal Tolerance of Soil Microbial Communities along Two Heavy Metal-Polluted Gradients in Coniferous Forests

    T Pennanen;A Frostegård;H Fritze;Erland Bååth

  • Growth of saprotrophic fungi and bacteria in soil.

    Johannes Rousk;Johannes Rousk;Erland Bååth

  • Effect of Metal-Rich Sludge Amendments on the Soil Microbial Community

    Erland Bååth;Montserrat Díaz-Raviña;Åsa Frostegård;Colin D. Campbell

  • Fifteen years of climate change manipulations alter soil microbial communities in a subarctic heath ecosystem

    Riikka Rinnan;Riikka Rinnan;Anders Michelsen;Erland Bååth;Sven Jonasson

  • Changes in microbial community structure during long-term incubation in two soils experimentally contaminated with metals

    Å. Frostegård;A. Tunlid;E. Bååth

Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes Rousk
Johannes Rousk Lund University
Bengt Söderström
Bengt Söderström Lund University
Montserrat Díaz-Raviña
Montserrat Díaz-Raviña Spanish National Research Council
Riikka Rinnan
Riikka Rinnan University of Copenhagen
Pål Axel Olsson
Pål Axel Olsson Lund University
Philip C. Brookes
Philip C. Brookes Zhejiang University
Anders Tunlid
Anders Tunlid Lund University
Håkan Wallander
Håkan Wallander Lund University
Anders Michelsen
Anders Michelsen University of Copenhagen
Taina Pennanen
Taina Pennanen Finnish Forest Research Institute

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