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Overview

Flemming Ekelund is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has a research profile centered on agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including plant science, ecology, soil science, pollution, and molecular biology.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects such as legume nitrogen fixing symbiosis, microbial community ecology and physiology, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, nematode management and characterization studies, heavy metals in the environment, coal and its by-products, and composting and vermicomposting techniques.

Frequent publication venues for Ekelund include:

  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental and Experimental Botany
  • Bioresource Technology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Ekelund include:

  • "Total RNA sequencing reveals multilevel microbial community changes and functional responses to wood ash application in agricultural and forest soil" (2020), published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • "The complexity of wood ash fertilization disentangled: Effects on soil pH, nutrient status, plant growth and cadmium accumulation" (2021), published in Environmental and Experimental Botany
  • "Specialized microbiomes facilitate natural rhizosphere microbiome interactions counteracting high salinity stress in plants" (2021), published in Environmental and Experimental Botany
  • "Can bryophyte groups increase functional resolution in tundra ecosystems?" (2021), published in Arctic Science
  • "Green waste and sewage sludge feeding ratio alters co-composting performance: Emphasis on the role of bacterial community during humification" (2023), published in Bioresource Technology

Ekelund collaborates frequently with several researchers in the field, including:

  • Mette Vestergård
  • Rasmus Kjøller
  • Regin Rønn
  • Jesper Liengaard Johansen
  • Carsten Suhr Jacobsen

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Soil protists: a fertile frontier in soil biology research.

    Stefan Geisen;Edward A D Mitchell;Sina Adl;Michael Bonkowski

  • An examination of the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship in arable soil microbial communities

    B.S Griffiths;K Ritz;R Wheatley;H.L Kuan

  • Notes on protozoa in agricultural soil with emphasis on heterotrophic flagellates and naked amoebae and their ecology

    Flemming Ekelund;Regin Rønn

  • Method for spiking soil samples with organic compounds.

    Ulla C. Brinch;Flemming Ekelund;Carsten S. Jacobsen

  • Distribution with depth of protozoa, bacteria and fungi in soil profiles from three Danish forest sites

    Flemming Ekelund;Regin Rønn;S. Christensen

  • Soil protistology rebooted: 30 fundamental questions to start with

    Stefan Geisen;Edward A. D. Mitchell;David M. Wilkinson;Sina Adl

  • Distribution and Composition of Microbial Populations in a Landfill Leachate Contaminated Aquifer (Grindsted, Denmark).

    L. Ludvigsen;H.-J. Albrechtsen;D.B. Ringelberg;F. Ekelund

  • Optimizing soil extract and broth media for MPN-enumeration of naked amoebae and heterotrophic flagellates in soil

    R. Ronn;F. Ekelund;S. Christensen

  • Pesticide Side Effects in an Agricultural Soil Ecosystem as Measured by amoA Expression Quantification and Bacterial Diversity Changes

    Louise Feld;Mathis Hjort Hjelmsø;Morten Schostag Nielsen;Anne Dorthe Jacobsen

  • Buried alive – germination of up to a century-old marine protist resting stages

    Nina Lundholm;Sofia Ribeiro;Thorbjørn J. Andersen;Trine Koch

  • Interactions Between Bacteria, Protozoa and Nematodes in Soil

    Regin Rønn;Mette Vestergård;Flemming Ekelund

  • Long-term manipulation of the microbes and microfauna of two subarctic heaths by addition of fungicide, bactericide, carbon and fertilizer

    Inger K. Schmidt;Inger K. Schmidt;Liliane Ruess;Erland Bååth;Anders Michelsen

  • Some Heterotrophic Flagellates from a Cultivated Garden Soil in Australia

    Flemming Ekelund;David J. Patterson

  • Soil microbial toxicity of eight polycyclic aromatic compounds: Effects on nitrification, the genetic diversity of bacteria, and the total number of protozoans

    Line Emilie Sverdrup;Flemming Ekelund;Paul Henning Krogh;Torben Nielsen

  • Ribosomal RNA Genes Challenge the Monophyly of the Hyalospheniidae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida)

    Enrique Lara;Thierry J. Heger;Thierry J. Heger;Flemming Ekelund;Mariusz Lamentowicz

  • Strains of the heterotrophic flagellate Bodo designis from different environments vary considerably with respect to salinity preference and SSU rRNA gene composition.

    Trine A. Koch;Flemming Ekelund

  • Local diversity of heathland Cercozoa explored by in-depth sequencing

    Christoffer Bugge Harder;Regin Rønn;Asker Brejnrod;David Bass

  • Phylogenomic Analysis of Kinetoplastids Supports That Trypanosomatids Arose from within Bodonids

    Philippe Deschamps;Enrique Lara;William Marande;Purificación López-García

  • Microbial degradation of street dust polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in microcosms simulating diffuse pollution of urban soil

    Anders R. Johnsen;Julia R. De Lipthay;Søren J. Sørensen;Flemming Ekelund

  • Bacterial and protozoan dynamics upon thawing and freezing of an active layer permafrost soil

    Morten Schostag;Morten Schostag;Anders Priemé;Samuel Jacquiod;Samuel Jacquiod;Jakob Russel

  • Phylogeny of Heteromita, Cercomonas and Thaumatomonas based on SSU rDNA sequences, including the description of Neocercomonas jutlandica sp. nov., gen. nov.

    Flemming Ekelund;Niels Daugbjerg;Line Fredslund

  • Huge increase in bacterivores on freshly killed barley roots

    S. Christensen;B.S. Griffiths;F. Ekelund;R. Rønn

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten S. Jacobsen
Carsten S. Jacobsen Aarhus University
Rasmus Kjøller
Rasmus Kjøller University of Copenhagen
Enrique Lara
Enrique Lara Spanish National Research Council
Bryan S. Griffiths
Bryan S. Griffiths Scotland's Rural College
Søren J. Sørensen
Søren J. Sørensen University of Copenhagen
Anne Winding
Anne Winding Aarhus University
Juha Mikola
Juha Mikola Natural Resources Institute Finland
Edward A. D. Mitchell
Edward A. D. Mitchell University of Neuchâtel
Manqiang Liu
Manqiang Liu Nanjing Agricultural University
Paul Henning Krogh
Paul Henning Krogh Aarhus University

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